Elizabeth Warren: "Today, I am launching my campaign to represent the people of Massachusetts in the United States Senate. After listening to people all across our state who know that we can do better, folks who are frustrated like I am that Washington just doesn't get it, I'm running for the Senate so I can fight every day for Massachusetts families."
Elizabeth Warren officially announced her run for the Senate today, 09/14/11. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)
I'm Running!
14 September 11
Elizabeth Warren Announces for US Senate
lizabeth Warren, a consumer advocate known for standing up to big banks and financial institutions to fight for middle class families, today (9/14) announced she is running for the United States Senate from Massachusetts, beginning her day greeting early morning commuters at a MBTA station in Boston.
"And the reason is straightforward," Warren said in video released this morning on www.elizabethwarren.com/announcement. "Middle class families have been chipped at, hacked at, squeezed and hammered for a generation now, and I don't think Washington gets it."
"Washington is rigged for big corporations," Warren continued. "A big company, like GE, pays nothing in taxes, and we're asking college students to take on even more debt to get an education? We're telling seniors they may need to learn to live on less? It isn't right, and it's the reason I'm running."
"We have a chance to help rebuild America's middle class. We have a chance to put Washington on the side of families. We can do this together," Warren says in her announcement video. Warren is meeting with working men and women at stops across the state today and tomorrow, including visits to Boston, New Bedford, Framingham, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, and Gloucester.
Warren describes her family as living "on the ragged edge of the middle class" when she was growing up. She was the first in her family to graduate college and became a public school teacher. After graduating law school, Elizabeth practiced law from her living room but soon returned to teaching, becoming an expert on bankruptcy and the financial pressures facing the middle class.
After the 2008 financial crisis, Elizabeth led the panel created by Congress to examine how the bank bailout money was being spent. She is widely credited for the original thinking, political courage, and relentless persistence that led to the creation of a new consumer financial protection agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Elizabeth was in charge of setting up the agency, building the foundation to hold accountable even trillion-dollar financial institutions and to protect consumers from financial traps often hidden in mortgages, credit cards and other financial products.
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I think voting for the Democrats just because the Republicans are "so much more immoral" is rather pointless. We should demand independent candidates worthy of our votes, not settle for the lesser of two evils.
I won't say "Good Luck"...you're a shoe-in,
Tom (Independent humanist in AZ)
again great news.
I only wish she weren't running against Scott Brown, who is not so conservative in comparison to most of his fellow Republicans, and certainly not so bat-sh*t crazy.
If only she could run against senators like Cornyn, Crapo or DeMint.
Just the same, she would be fantastic no matter what seat she were in.
The Senate provides better positioning than the head of the Consumer Protection Agency would have,because that position has no longevity. The Senate is not subject to who occupies White House.
We need Elizabeth Warren around for as long as possible and now she can go toe to toe with the Republicans.Term after term after term.
Mass. WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU!!
This makes having to live with shame of Governor Good Hair and Dubya more bearable somehow. GO,Elizabeth,Go !!!
As a labor organizer and retired worker, I extend my thanks for your decision to run for the Senate. Some of the members of that body have risen to prominence and influence far beyond the constituency of their State, and I think you will also achieve this status after your election. Your plain-spoken and honest advocacy for American workers and families will be pivotal in returning our country to prosperity, and restoring our place among the civilized nations of the world. I will support you from the Other Washington across the continent, and look forward to your victory, and to your successful tenure as a U.S. Senator. Thank you, and keep fighting the good fight.
(Hillary is STILL too connected! Don't be fooled into thinking that because she's a female, or that she's married to Bill, that she would be any different, or, we would have a 3rd Bill Clinton presidency!)
I hope that she runs (any cycle), as she has this fellow woman's vote.
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