Setti Warren, who left the MA-Sen race a couple of weeks ago, announced today that he has chosen his candidate.
“Although I have ended my own campaign, I still believe, as strongly as ever that Scott Brown has made the wrong decisions for Massachusetts and has hindered our progress as a nation on vital issues like putting Americans back to work and moving our economy forward again,” Setti Warren wrote in an email invitation to the endorsement announcement, provided by his campaign. “This Thursday, I will endorse the only candidate I believe can beat Scott Brown in the fall of 2012 – Elizabeth Warren.”
Also, in an email (no link), Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has announced he is supported Warren as well.
When a passionate, principled, progressive reformer like Elizabeth Warren decides to run for the U.S. Senate, the first thing to do is to get really, really excited.
We’ve all seen what Elizabeth can do with her smarts — and her guts. I’ve been impressed with her tenacity for years. She took on Wall Street before anyone else would and pushed consumer protection to the top of the financial reform agenda.
We know she’s tough and fiery and even funny. We know she’s got a great life story and a full career of achievements fighting for middle-class families. That’s why progressives like you and me have been fans for a long time, and why we hoped she’d be able to lead the consumer protection board she created. And now, when we imagine her voice in the Senate, well, it’s even more exciting.
I’m proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren….
Remember that just as excited as we are about having Elizabeth in the Senate, that’s how panicked the special interests are about the idea. They are going to spend millions trying to stop her — that was the headline in Politico. “Wall Street Readies Assault on Elizabeth Warren.”
We’ve seen far too many great Democrats get buried under attack ads, but we also know that big grassroots support can beat big money. That’s how we won in Minnesota — and that’s how Elizabeth can win in Massachusetts….
Just like you, I’ll be watching this race with great excitement. And I hope that just like me, you’re ready to do everything you can to help Elizabeth win.
Also worth a read on the Warren beat is this piece in the Daily Beast, in which Warren claims to have “created much of the intellectual foundation for what they [the Occupy Wall Streeters] do.” It’s a bold claim, to be sure. But it’s also a bit hard to argue with.
thinkliberally says
On your last point, it is a good read…
…but it wouldn’t kill her to be a little more modest about it. Her statement makes it seem like she’s taking credit for #occupy.
It’s easy to acknowledge that the issues around #occupy are the same issues we saw Elizabeth Warren talk about over the last 10 weeks, since her listening tour started, and over the 20 years or so, since she dove into the issue of bankruptcy. I get that campaigns are not about modesty. Still, there must be a better way to say how much she relates to #occupy than to claim the intellectual foundation.
JHM says
Moreover, cultivated whight-wingers, if any, must be wonderin’ “¿The ‘intellectual foundation’ of WHAT, exactly?”
The Zucchini Square epistemology sure sounds a lot like St. John Dewey to this keyboard, though. I mean, if that lady from the joke just keeps on talking, sooner or later she really WILL figure out what she thinks.
However one must doubt that either St. Elizabeth of Warrenbuffet or her supposed _chela_s ever learned enough about my hero to be dangerous. May not even know the joke.
Closer to home, “Dewey Square” commemorates the violence pro, not the philosopher. Naturally. ’Tis not as if “the Athens of America” were deceitfully attempting to pass ourselves off as a genuine Rolodex.
Happy days.
–McBoldclaim
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lynne says
the feeling that that quite is severely out of context?
It smacks of selective quoting, standing alone like that. I am guessing there’s a whole paragraph that quote was part of.
We’ve been dealing a lot with that around here (the Sun) so I am particularly sensitive to it, but it really does seem to be missing a sentence before and after it.
lynne says
I’ve met her more than once, heard her talk, and got to interview her for 40 minutes, and she DOES NOT come across as boastful. Therefore, I am disinclined to think she was boasting this time.
The reporter reads into it though, stating after quoting her that “Warren’s boast isn’t bluster.”
Kinda sick of this sort of reporting. Take one comment, don’t showcase the context, then make a judgement call on it. Rather lazy of them.
lynne says
They managed to miss the entire context of the “clothes off” incident.
When, of course, it’s IMPORTANT for the story to note that the QUESTIONER brought up the nudity. SIGH.