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Jan. 20, 2010 -- Six years before he became the new darling of the national Republican Party, Scott Brown was running in a special election for the Senate -- the Massachusetts state Senate, that is.

He'd agreed to run under one condition: He would not, under any circumstances, miss any of his daughter's high-school basketball games.

So it was that on the Friday before Election Day, Dominick Ianno, then the executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, found himself shuttling then-state Rep.

Brown between Boston and two different suburbs so Brown could wedge in a basketball game between two final campaign debates.

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With rush-hour traffic, he would barely make the second debate on time.

But he wouldn't leave Ayla's game even a minute early.

"Making time for his daughter's games was a no-brainer. Bu