Politics | Scott Brown Eye on 2016, Scott Brown Flirts With Iowa Sure, it's 'premature,' but he's 'curious' By Kevin Spak Posted Aug 19, 2013 8:16 AM CDT Copied In this Oct. 24, 2012, file photo, then-Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., uses a bull horn at a campaign stop in Watertown, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) When a former senator from Massachusetts visits the Iowa State Fair, you can bet it's not because he craves fried dough and ring toss. So when the Boston Herald asked, Scott Brown didn't deny that he was visiting because he has presidential ambitions. "I want to get an indication of whether there’s even an interest," he said. "It's 2013, I think it's premature, but I am curious. There's a lot of good name recognition in the Dakotas and here." Fair-goers aren't the only ones Brown is polling; he's been meeting with some of the Republican party's top figures recently, and last week held an RNC event at Fenway Park. Read These Next It started with failure to say 'thank you,' ended with murder. Multiple people are dead or missing after an explosion in Tennessee. Freak accident kills a woman as she cleans her car. It landed on the 4th try. There wasn't enough fuel for a 5th. Report an error