Barney Frank faces town hall foe in primary

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - U.S. Rep. Barney Frank has slammed his Democratic primary challenger and former town hall foe for comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said Tuesday during his debate with Rachel Brown that the 29-year-old and her supporters offend many by carrying signs with Obama sporting a Hitler mustache.

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Brown, a follower of economist Lyndon LaRouche, asked Frank at a town hall last year about his support for what she termed the "Nazi policy" of health care reform. That drew Frank's retort.

Brown said Frank's criticism motivated her to run against him in the Sept. 14 primary for the state's 4th Congress

ional District. Republicans Sean Bielat, a 35-year-old ex-Marine and businessman from Brookline, and Earl Sholley, a 62-year-old Norfolk businessman, seek their party's nod to run against Frank.