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State Department investigated Scott Brown for inappropriate comments at official event
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 25, 2017 07:47pm |
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| Author | Tara Golshan |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 25, 2017 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Scott Brown, the United States’ ambassador to New Zealand, said guests at a Peace Corps event in Samoa were “beautiful” and told a woman server she could make hundreds of dollars in hospitality in the US — prompting a State Department inquiry into his propriety at official events.
“Apparently somebody took offense to that,” the former Republican senator from Massachusetts said in a video addressing the incident. “I was in fact told by my people, you’re not Scott Brown from Rye, New Hampshire, anymore, you’re an ambassador. And you have to be aware — culturally aware — of different cultures, different insensitivities, and I’m always welcoming that kind of good advice.”
One witness at the July event told New Zealand’s television station 1 NEWS that the ambassador had behaved “obnoxiously” in front of the 250 guests, which included New Zealand dignitaries.
Brown said the incident was a misunderstanding and likely based in political motivations. “Politics is a blood sport back home, and at this event there were a lot of people that didn’t like the president,” Brown said in the video statement. |
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