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Elizabeth Warren Is Running for the Senate

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Posted on Sep 14, 2011
Office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Elizabeth Warren, left, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

In the past few years, Elizabeth Warren proved herself one of the very few people in government committed to actually doing something about Wall Street greed, and she got kicked to the curb as a result. Now she is hoping to win back Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat from Republican Scott Brown.

Warren recently helped set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she also invented. Before that she was chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, which served as watchdog to the bank bailout. Throughout the financial meltdown, Warren distinguished herself as a committed critic of the finance industry and a champion of working people.

Before she can take on Brown, Warren will have to best a half-dozen rivals in Massachusetts’ Democratic primary.

Though Brown is the rare Senate Republican representing a state some in his party deride as Taxachusetts, he is popular and Warren is a novice politician.

Aside from Warren’s oversight credentials, Democrats are counting on her fundraising ability.  —PZS

AP via Google:

Democratic leaders are banking that her national profile will help her raise the money needed to topple Brown, who has more than $10 million in his campaign account.

A recent Boston Globe poll showed Brown as the most popular major politician in the traditionally Democratic state. Brown shocked the political establishment by beating Attorney General Martha Coakley in last year’s special election to succeed Kennedy. He was a little-known state senator who cast himself as a moderate, an average guy with his trademark barn coat and pickup truck. He once posed as a Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.

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By Marian Griffith, September 15, 2011 at 11:24 am Link to this comment
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To all the ‘haters’ here, you know who you are.

I really hope you see the birth of Perrystan (or Republicanistan) in a bit more than a year. You deserve to see your promised land come true and you certainly work hard enough to make it happen.

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By prisnersdilema, September 15, 2011 at 7:29 am Link to this comment

I hope she stays out of light planes…

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By David J. Cyr, September 15, 2011 at 6:43 am Link to this comment

QUOTE, AP reporter, Steve LeBlanc:

“Democratic leaders are banking that her national profile will help her raise the money needed to topple Brown”
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The “progressive” Howard Dean’s answer to too much money in elections was to get way more money needed in elections. Result: millions of hopeless maniacs contributing $5 or $25 to the most heavily corporate funded candidate in history, Obama.

Money cannot be beaten by raising money, because candidates dependent upon money become politicians owned by whichever few “contribute” the largest individual sums… regularly.

There’s no good to ever be gotten from a government always alternating seats just between the members of the corporate party’s factions.

Elizabeth Warren is a bright woman. In a time of crisis, she stepped up to usefully provide calming PR for the corporate-state… to keep desperate people’s hope alive in it.

If Warren had good intentions she would never be a Democrat. She’s apparently seeking to put the deviousness back in the Democrats whose evil has become so transparent.

Like Kucinich, Warren is the worst of Democrats, not the best. It’s their job to keep millions of weak willed and weak minded liberals voting for this corporate party candidate, rather than that corporate party candidate.

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By Robespierre115, September 15, 2011 at 2:47 am Link to this comment

And if she wins? Will she just become another Al Franken? These people have a habit of sounding really good on paper and documentaries, and then toning it down once they get elected.

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By David K. Sutton, September 14, 2011 at 10:44 pm Link to this comment

It is hard for me to understand how anyone could have a
serious problem with Warren if her ideas are given fair
vetting and what she advocates is given a fair listen.

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By clerical, September 14, 2011 at 8:12 pm Link to this comment
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which was set up by Warren under
White House supervision is a sham.

She will waste her time and ours as a democrat-manipulated Senator, like they all
do (because the democrats are partners with the republicans and both work for
Wall Street).

End of story.

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By PatrickHenry, September 14, 2011 at 5:33 pm Link to this comment

I think she is the right person for this job.

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By Textynn, September 14, 2011 at 4:05 pm Link to this comment
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Sitting next to that sycophant, Pelosi, and being
photographed is not doing you any favors Ms. Warren.

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