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DEC. 6, 2001 - U.S. Rep. Henry Brown's special kind of politics - "brown" nosing with powerful congressmen, is expected to net his campaign coffers more than $50,000 next week.

In other news, Brown this week also encouraged a religious right organization to continue to recruit candidates to press its agenda.

Hanahan resident Roberta Combs, who has been running the day-to-day operations of the right-wing Christian Coalition, on Wednesday became president of the organization when founder Pat Robertson resigned.

Brown this week told The Post and Courier "he was proud of Combs, who is a distant relative. He said he hopes the organization under Combs sticks to its mission of recruiting candidates who are heavily focused on family values."

On Monday, The Post and Courier reported today that U.S. Rep. Don Young, the Alaska Republican who is chair of the powerful House Transportation Committee, next week is to attend "an elite breakfast event that will boost Brown's campaign fund by up to $50,000."

Earlier in the year, Brown traveled, at Brown's invitation, on a House junket to Alaska and "visited maritime facilities in Ketchikan, toured Prudhoe Bay and the wildlife refuge, inspected a Coast Guard facility in Valdez and an Army project in Seward, and took a four-hour "historic train ride" from Seward to Anchorage," the paper reported.

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, also a Republican, has called the trip a "boondoggle."

The experience is closely tied with Brown's view in the importance of "always trying to network. If you want to get things done, you have to get close to the people who make the decisions."

Translation: Brown-nosing.

Since he's been in Congress, he's been on junkets to Alaska, China and Africa. He's been a member less than a year. More: click here.

Brown's brown-nosing has a cost, though: "One requirement for receiving such attention is staying in line. Brown has not swerved an inch, and for that he has been rewarded."

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"[Brown] said he hopes the [Christian Coaliton] under Combs sticks to its mission of recruiting candidates who are heavily focused on family values.

-- The Post and Courier, Dec. 6, 2001.

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