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She’s In: Elizabeth Warren To Run For US Senate
Elizabeth Warren Champion of Middle Class
She’s in, Elizabeth Warren is making it official. Tomorrow September 14th, 2011 she will announce that she’s running for U.S. Senate against Republican Scott Brown.
Elizabeth Warren was tapped by President Obama to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She hit a Republican brick wall of opposition, which sent her back to Massachusetts to take on the same cause of fighting for the average person, but in a different capacity.
Senator Brown is already ramping up the case that he is also the Wall St. reformer because of his vote in favor of the Dodd-Frank bill.
While Senator Brown enjoys the privilege of being the most popular politician in Massachusetts, a recent poll shows that as an undeclared candidate, Elizabeth Warren only trailed him by 9 points, with 14 months until the election.
Warren will not be making any speeches. She will be traveling to gateway cities around Massachusetts and Boston meeting as many people as she can, something Martha Coakley didn’t really emphasize on during the 2010 special election.
The campaign will instead put up a video of her, talking about the points she will make during this campaign. Warren said,”The pressures on middle class families are worse than ever, but it is the big corporations that get their way in Washington.” in the script given to the Boston Globe, today.
Insiders have long worried that the financial situation of the other Democrats running would be no match for Brown massive war chest, he has accumulated from the likes of Wall St. and the infamous Koch Brothers.
The one big issue facing Scott Brown is voter turnout. In 2012 the voter turnout and more importantly the Democratic base will be out in droves because of the Presidential election. This is an advantage to Warren, but no reason to become complacent.
As Senator, Warren will continue the fight she started with the CFPB, just in the capacity as U.S. Senator. Her website is ElizaebethforMA.com
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15 Responses to She’s In: Elizabeth Warren To Run For US Senate
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zumpie
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
What with (I’ll assume) not voting yesterday, I think Scotty may as well start cleaning out his desk. Bye bye.
Lunchbox
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
wow, this lady just doesnt get it. Where does she think the money needed to pay for the middle class projects come from???? thats right… the same companies that hire people! Big business are the ones who actually pay…. take a look at what middle class are paying for taxes!! thats right… nothing…
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:42 pm
You mean the same companys that DO NOT hire people.
People put far more tax money into the system than corporations do, and have for a long time
Lunchbox
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
thats an interesting theory. Which people? The middle class? No sir.
Lunchbox
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
for the record, Im sure shes a great person, I just think her views are skewed.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
LOL she hasnt even put her views out in public yet.
Lunchbox
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
thats not exactly true… she has put out an agenda and actually contstructed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and got passed over for the job by President Obama). She, like everyone else has a past… which is how I am judging her…. hopefully she will depart from her historical views.
Moongal6
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
I would like to clarify your comment regarding Obama passing Ms. Warren over for the Consumer Bureau. First of all, I believe Ms. Warren has known for quite some time that she would enter the Senate race. Not, just since July.
Secondly, the other reason she didn’t want the job is that she assumed that if ANYONE other than her was picked by Obama, they would have a better chance being confirmed. She is the one who picked Cordray. This story was around all the media outlets, I guess you missed it. Here is a link.
www.politicususa.com/en/e...
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Hopefully she will keep her views. her creation of a department is not the same as running for the senate. Nor was she passed over. I am not sure what you have against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but it sounds to me like you are getting this garbage off an email the tea thugs send you
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Look at that second to last chart down, corporations do not come close to what people put in the fed. And havent since the great American traitor Reagan was in
motherjones.com/politics/...
dem9586792844592
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
It breaks my heart that Elizabeth Warren is going to torment those poor big corporations. Boo hoo, boo hoo, boo hoo.
The Platzner Post
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Great news!!!
Ingarose
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Ok, you may not like what I have to say, but I really am becoming upset with people forever idolizing one person or the other. 99% of people writing on this site believe that Obama cannot do anything wrong. On the other hand going to some conservative sites (the only one I have visited are ‘the blaze’ and ‘C4P’) I read the same thing, only their idol or idols are all religious, conservative fanatics.
I am not talking about unity at this point, which seems impossible, but can’t we at least discuss certain things without being called names?
Oh, yes, once upon a time I was very emotional too, but age, living in this world, analyzing certain situations, have made me more cynical.
At this point I simply cannot jump on any ‘so called’ band wagon.
zumpie
Sep. 13th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
I actually think plenty of Dems do things wrong and also there are Republicans who I kinda like (Jon Huntsman and Charlie Crist, for example)—but this IS a very progressive blog, so obviously we’re going to prefer progressive politicians.
Elizabeth Warren is extremely popular among both Dems and moderates, plus she’s running against a pretty boy flip flopper in a very liberal state. I’ll add some negtiave about Dems right here—it was Martha Coakley’s own fault she lost because she couldn’t be bothered to campaign. Clearly Elizabeth Warren does not intend to make that mistake.
That said, I don’t think we display the sort of hero worship that they do on C4P (eessshh). I see postings criticizing Obama all the time here. When he’s wrong, he gets skewered on wonkette, gawker and tbogg, as well. Just today I know I’m please with Obama because he’s doing the FDR/Truman/LBJ thing, which is awesome and what we really need to see more of, not the wishy washy caving thing.
I will say the one thing this site does well (along with TBogg) is pointing out that even when Obama doesn’t always make the best moves, if you choose to “teach him a lesson” by not voting, you wind up with a congress full of teabaggers. And a cut nose and spited face.
Also, I think, just as the teatards were excited to “take back their country” in 2010, many Democrats now feel that way now about 2012. We’ve actually received some positive news today, more anti-Puggie ammo (thanks, Ron Paul!) on what should have been a good day for all the GOP clown candidates.
Ingarose
Sep. 14th, 2011 at 12:00 am
OK I got it. I do like Elizabeth Warren and I hope she makes it and wins. It’s just that I get really upset with Obama at times as he does cave a lot and he kept an awful lot Bush policies in place which I could not stand then, nor now.