I wanted you to be among the first to know that today at 1:00PM in Lowell I will formally endorse Elizabeth Warren for United States Senate.
We are fortunate to have so many great candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Senate. I have had the privilege of getting to know many of them. Any would make fine United States Senators.
However, these are challenging times for our Commonwealth and our nation. Many are barely hanging on, struggling to make ends meet, hold a job, pay their mortgage, or feed their families. Often it feels as if the deck is stacked against working people.
Times like these demand leadership that speaks to the unique challenges working men and women face every day. Elizabeth Warren grew up in a working class family, often living paycheck to paycheck. She knows what it means to be one bad break away from losing your home.
Because of this, Elizabeth made fighting for the middle class her life’s work. She knows there are plenty of people in Washington to look out for the billion dollar corporations and their friends on Wall Street. Elizabeth thinks there should be someone in Washington looking out for you.
I watched her closely as she fiercely advocated for the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Wall Street reform, efforts that I was proud to join with her in advancing. They said it couldn’t be done. But, because she stood up to the big banks on Wall Street we passed historic protections for middle class families.
In the Senate, she will fight to level the playing field so that average people have a voice. She sees an America that invests in people, with educational opportunities that don’t require a lifetime of crushing debt, where entrepreneurs take an idea and start a business without becoming bogged down in red tape, and a place where our sense of fairness dictates that everyone pays their share in contributing to our economic recovery.
In the more than two hundred year history of our Commonwealth only four women have gone to Washington to represent Massachusetts in Congress. I am proud to be one of them. As I often say, women can’t win unless they run. Women make up a majority of our state’s population, yet it is no secret that Massachusetts has historically struggled to elect women to federal office. We’re going to change that right here, right now, by electing Elizabeth Warren as the first woman to represent Massachusetts in the United States Senate.
Over the coming months I plan on joining her as she travels to the cities and towns of my district making the case for progressive solutions to our most pressing problems. I hope you will join me in supporting Elizabeth Warren at 1:00PM today behind the UMass-Lowell Inn and Conference center at 50 Warren Court, on the public walkway overlooking the Pawtucket Canal.
Thank you, as always, for your support.
Sincerely,
Niki Tsongas
P.S. – Be sure to visit www.elizabethwarren.com to learn more about Elizabeth’s campaign for Senate.
at 1pm because I am teaching. I should have figured if Warren was coming to Lowell a day early it had something to do with this. 🙂
I was able to get there. It was pretty short and sweet. The Congresswoman introduced Prof. Warren by praising her work and Prof. Warren in turned praised the Congresswoman’s commitment to fighting for the middle class and helping to get the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through. A page of Warren’s remarks blew off in the wind at one point flustering the audience more than her. One memorable reporter’s question was how much time had she spent preparing for tomorrow’s debate to which she replied, “about 30 years”!