Throughout the Commonwealth, I am hearing from people who are “fired up and ready to go” in support of Elizabeth Warren’s potential candidacy for U. S. Senate. I think that she is a good choice for U. S. Senate.
I saw a post yesterday and have heard and seen other posts on BMG and elsewhere indicating that people are anxious to help. The organizer in me wants to make sure that if people want to help, they can do it now.
If you are interested in supporting Elizabeth Warren, if she chooses to run for U. S. Senate, there are things that you can be doing now, before a campaign is established.
1) Talk to people. Find out what they are thinking. Share your thoughts.
2) Make notes on people who you think might be interested in helping her candidacy.
3) If you find people who are interested in helping get e-mail addresses and contact information.
4) Begin the process of explaining to people that attending a caucus in support of Elizabeth Warren is something that they can do that will be important towards electing her.
5) Sign up on the website Elizabeth for MA.
If you want be actively involved with others who are interested in helping now, please contact Matt Patton at matthewdpatton AT yahoo.com or me, Kate Donaghue at KateDonaghue AT aol.com.
Kate Donaghue, volunteer.
to her 2003 book, The Two-Income Trap.
“This book is dedicated to all parents who wake up with hearts thudding over the possibility that buying school shoes and Girl Scout uniforms will mean that there won’t be enough left over to pay the mortgage. These people are our neighbors, our brothers and sisters, our friends and coworkers. They travel anonymously among us, but we know them. They went to college, had kids, bought a house, played by the rules — and lost. It’s time to rewrite the rules so that these families are winners again.”
I’ve signed up.
A US Senator needs to be versed in many issues, not just a narrow swatch of consumer issues.
Each of the candidates comes to this race (and EW is not yet a candidate despite all the carefully packaged buzz) with certain strengths.
Why not make it easy for those inclined to get involved to check them ALL out as has been done in past races?
Here is a start:
Bob Massie (whom I strongly support and believe to be the most well-rounded and knowledgeable of the candidates): http://www.bobmassie.org/
Marisa DeFranco – a bold and gutsy campaigner with expertise and a goal in fixing our broken immigration system, about which she knows a great deal: http://www.marisadefranco.com/
Setti Warren, a veteran with experience as a staffer in Washington D.C.: http://settiwarren.com/splash
Tom Conroy – who walked all over the state listening, and has experience as a legislator: http://www.tomconroy.org/
Herb Robinson – How many engineers are there in the senate anyway – didn’t find a website but found this: http://www.heraldnews.com/statepolitics/x437334136/Newton-resident-Herb-Robinson-enters-Senate-race-along-with-Mayor-Setti-Warren
Couldn’t find anything for the other guys, and EW doesn’t need me giving her website, her PR folks are buzzing along and if she has Kate, Kate = an army.
Herb Robinson
Alan Khazei
Jim King
I wish you didn’t sound quite so cynical about Elizabeth Warren. There is widespread support for her candidacy from both in and out of MA. She hardly needs packaging or phony PR.
Just, so far, not impressed. I admit, too, that so far her campaign has “rubbed me the wrong way” – I believe that would have been true even if I were not already pledged to a candidate I like a lot! Can’t help that it shows! But I don’t feel cynical even if that is how my post felt to you. Each of us is, of course, entitled to feel however we feel, without any pressure to conform, I would hope.
Thanks for rounding out the roster of websites. I, for one, always found it helpful when BMG had a “sidebar” for all the candidates in a contested primary.
Kate and Matt ( with whom I agree on so many things!): The way to build support for your candidate is to get your candidate to become a real candidate in this race….and put an end to the draft, beg, urge, encourage, entreat Elizabeth to enter the race show still underway. Leaders lead. I have been told she is a decisive leader, but the kabuki dance pre-campaign strategy is actually making her seem weak, not strong. It’s hard to get people to make definite commitments to someone who is not yet committed to run the race. Get her to get in the race, then ask others to get on board to help. If she is waiting for a poll that says she can definitely beat Scott Brown, that will not be coming anytime soon, if ever. She either has it in her gut to run or she doesn’t (and shouldn’t)…I think everyone knows her decision has already been made to run, so why keep up a charade?
literally. At a time when the economy is the #1 challenge, she is one of the top experts on the economy. Warren has such a clear understanding on how consumers, taxes, healthcare and small business work together in our economy that instead of bowing to pressure, she is able to shape opinion.
Elizabeth has shown she cares deeply. I’ve been a big fan of her writing, speaking and activism for years, hoping to hear that type of passion in our elected leaders. For goodness sakes, she successfully took on Tim Geithner, as he reiterated his theme of “it’s complicated..complex”…
My hero!!!
Elizabeth Warren questioning Tim Geithner on the bank bail out.
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I like Elizabeth Warren. I admire her intellect and strong advocacy for the middle class. I think she would make a good senator.
I am not, however, jumping into her yet-to-be-declared campaign camp, as there is another candidate with equally impressive credentials who has already been spending months honing a campaign, building an organization, and talking to both activists and ordinary voters. That candidate is Bob Massie.
I wonder how many people who are jumping into the Warren camp know about Massie’s work with CERES and the Global Reporting Initiative. This work directly addresses the environment, social needs, and human rights on a large scale. Excerpts from the CERES web site, in the context of Massie’s receipt of two awards:
I have never worked for or volunteered for a candidate before but I will be doing all I can to help make EW the next Senator from Massachusetts. The race is a year away so I am not put off at all by the fact that she has not made her run official just yet. When she does I stand ready to phone bank, knock on doors or whatever else the candidate needs.