Elizabeth Warren Launches Exploratory Committee For Possible Senate Run Against Scott Brown

Source: Huffington Post

Elizabeth Warren, the former Obama adviser and consumer protection advocate, launched an exploratory committee Thursday, the next step toward a possible Senate challenge to Scott Brown (R-Mass.).

Warren, who returned to her post at Harvard Law School after helping create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been recruited by Democrats in the Bay State who believe Brown is beatable in 2012.

The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reported earlier this month that Warren is being assisted by influential Democratic operatives and has been making a series of calls to influential activists and party officials in the state.

This week, Warren has been traveling around Massachusetts on a “listening tour.” The Progressive Campaign Change Committee has already raised $100,000 on her behalf.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/elizabeth-warren-exploratory-committee_n_930530.html

yup

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I'm sure they're hearing my clapping and cheering over this news all the way back in Boston.

Man, this would be so awesome!

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Wouldn't it be WONDERFUL to replace one of theirs with one of ours - especially THIS one of ours? It'd be a big karmic poke in the eye with a sharp stick, for sure. Adding our insult to their injury.

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I was looking all over the place to find that sound!!!

And in the Senate.

Actually, given the apparent dearth of good candidates for 2016, why not Warren for that other House? You know, the white one.

...

Also she probly needs at least 1 electoral win behind her before she goes for the big one.

If no one better shows up.

That's what I get out of all of her media appearances when she was on TARP oversight and after: "Why am I having to be the one to shed light on this? Is there really no one else willing to fight for the people?"

Luckily for us, while there really doesn't seem to be anybody else, she does it EXTREMELY well.

nobody buy Feingold's seat... I would hope the people in Kennedy's old district would be real ready for Elizabeth Warren...

This is great news. I'm just going to pretend that Brown was holding the seat until she was ready to run.

Link:
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/warren-forms-senate-exploratory-committee/1B7j8cHJRRBP90ObSXSimO/index.html

Seriously, does she want to be senator or not? The rest is strategy.

Note. This is a special case. Not for every potential candidate. E Warren is already a Beatle.

--imm

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Go Elizabeth! Go!!!

Thanks for the thread, onehandle.

from a administration nominated consumer post (The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).

Greedy slimy elitist lying republicans assholes!

Well, let's see how the republicans like it when the Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren kicks the shit out of the lying disgusting right-wing elitist republican prick Scott Brown's hypocritical ass and Warren takes his job to become the Democratic US Senator from MA!!

Cheers to the excellent, scrupulous & great Elizabeth Warren - I adore her!!

How did I guess?

I'd love to see her shove their smug arrogance and obstruction back in their faces.

k&r

An intelligent, beautiful person (inside and out) matched against a RW Cream Puff... I really hope she will say Yes!!!

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This is what I was hoping for way back when, when Barney Frank was saying "She doesn't want that 'other' job she had--she was just a temp, she has OTHER PLANS."

I like this scenario much much better.

We love her everywhere else in the country, do you think she could beat Brown? Considering his unlimited resources?

gotten much play amongst those who don't pay attention...YET. I think that will change in the fall.

It's a tight state; once the "word goes forth" I think she'll get some great play. She has the skills, everything will depend on how well she does and how poorly Brown does. It won't be a cakewalk, but with money, no major errors, and maybe a few malapropisms by Mister Nekkid Senator, she could do it. Funny thing about MA, there are some folks, in this progressive (but Catholic-pocketed, even though many are lapsed) state, who harbor an unspoken and unadmitted prejudice against....women. Yes--and some of them, many of them, are the most loyal voters. I will say that Hillary softened a lot of those voters (older women, many of 'em) up, so we'll see if that helps Warren in the next go-round.

It's August, and no one pays attention to anything until the kids are back in school. The focus is on the waning days of summer, the Red Sox, and things of that nature right now.

I've already donated.

al franken being another.

no more plutocrats and industry toadies.

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As GreenTea said: "Cheers to the excellent, scrupulous & great Elizabeth Warren - I adore her!!"
:woohoo:

I've already donated too, even though I'm not a Mass. resident (doesn't matter in this case).

In the Senate you could be your own person. You could make a bigger difference than setting up an underfunded committee that would report to timmy "goldsachs" geithner.

Bye, bye Mr. Brown.

I am a Massachusetts resident and a big fan of Ms. Warren. I'm gonna volunteer for this campaign.

:hi:

great candidates to choose from this time!

1) Elizabeth Warren
2) Seti Warren (no relation:))
3) Alan Khazei
4) Marisa DeFranco

Fine credentials for all 4 of them....This is getting to be very exciting! :bounce:

He would be excellent too, but I am really not confident that he will run. He was originally going to announce his plans "by summer", but we still haven't heard.

Thank you for your contribution to my exploratory committee.

I am glad to be back home, and I look forward to discussing what we can accomplish together. In the meantime, make sure to join me on Facebook at http://elizabethforma.com/facebook.

I didn't think she'd want it (don't know why, I just didn't) - excellent!

smart
cares for the country
cares for people
authentic

what have we come to?

ALWAYS WELCOME!!! Go Liz! :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

If you have a few bucks, donate now. When she see's the quantity of people ready to get behind her, she will formally enter the ring. You know Brown will have unlimited resources thanks to the Koch brothers, I hope that we can give her a big boost of confidence by donating and showing her that the PEOPLE are behind her.

Name, address, website?

Almost tempted to move back just to vote for her. This seat of all seats is just wrong to be sat in by Scott Brown. Certainly would be willing to donate to her campaign.

Than I am a very happy progressive.

Elizabeth, if the senate seat is the quickest way to have you eventually run for U.S. President, please run. . .

currently you are my only choice for leadership at any level.


Thank you. . .thank you . . .you have no idea how grateful I will be for your candidacy. . .

Liz won't be one of the DINOS voting against the job's bill, ala Ben Nelson, Mark Warner, and Max Baucus, and the fourth dem in senate I forget. What a tragedy...they voted against bringing our jobs back to the U.S.A. when we had the house. These turds killed it in the Senate.

We need more women...and this one has INTEGRITY!!!


RUN LIZ RUN!

to see how she does in campaigning for the primary first. To be a Senator, you must first get elected and only time will tell how good her political skills are. Few start that high. There are examples who succeeded -in my state both Lautenberg and Corzine won Senate races as their first races.

As to the jobs bill, I am not sure which one you are speaking of. The last one, which failed with 52 votes, got all the Democrats, except Akaka who did not vote. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00064 The jobs bill at the end of last year passed with all of the Democrats as well - http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00281 The same was true of the September jobs bill where Voinivich and LeMieux joined all the Democrats to pass - http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00237

I suspect you might be thinking of the Murray/Kerry amendment for summer jobs and the expansion of TANF. On that the Democratic noes were - McCaskill, Nelson (NE), Warner and Webb. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00045

I have never seen Baucus vote against a jobs bill.

Not in the main chamber, he kills everything he can softly in the Finance committee.

and I really do not see it that way.

Here, the topic was jobs bills. The fact is that the reason that the September jobs bill got the two needed Republicans was because it was totally paid for. Do you have any idea what provision was included to pay for it? It was a Baucus/Kerry provision that closed several ways that people offshore money, which the CBO scored high enough to pay for the stimulus measures in the bill. Now, I know that stimulus, by definition, should not need to be paid for, but the reality was that if it wasn't, there would not be Republican votes at all.

You likely are thinking the public option. However, Baucus was an early proponent of the public option which he dropped when it was clear it could not get 60 votes. He said he was for it if it could get 60 votes. Dean's website - that had Snowe and Lincoln as yeses - when they weren't - never got to 60.

Baucus is far from my favorite Senator, but in this case, the information was wrong.

...but I don't see an active website.

She is a good decision-maker with her priorities in order and the courage to lead. She belongs in an executive position, not in the Chamber of Useless Time Wasting Decision Avoiding Talkathons. I suggest we run her for President.

She already has the skills she needs, for an executive position.

The only skill she could learn in the Senate is how to be unconscionably corrupt. We really don't need any more people with that skill.

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:kick:

This is how we get behind her. Let's get to work.

:)