we all know a little-known republican state senator in one of the bluest of blue states defeated a democratic attorney general who boasted statewide name recognition. there and elsewhere the chamber s grassroots effort entailscating and activating ordinary citizens to do things, contact makers, man phone banks, hand out laterao oat literature, so on. then it was the chamber proper, not the grassroots arm or political action committee that flooded the zone for brown in the final days of the campaign, looking to boost name recognition with a tidal wave of tv ad buys and only to find the zone as the chamber s top lobbyist recounted to fox news crowded by the democratic candidate s own third party backers. we went in with our first half million, the next day, you know, this game is played, it s an action and reaction game, the next day i believe it was i think it was the seiu, one of the major unions, went in with a $400,000 buy, the next day, another union went in with