NYT front page story on Brown and Warren

]Mr. Brown, a freshman who harnessed populist Tea Party anger to win the seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy, has taken more money from the financial industry than almost any other senator: all told, more than $1 million during the last two years, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.

Of the 20 companies that accounted for the most campaign donations to Mr. Brown, about half were prominent investment or securities firms like Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and Bain Capital. His donors include such blue-chip names as Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, and the hedge fund kings John Paulson and Kenneth Griffin.. .
This week, a new union-backed independent expenditure group, Rethink PAC, unveiled ads casting Mr. Brown, the onetime Tea Party populist, as a hypocrite for his ties to Wall Street.. .
In a sign of how volatile the Wall Street debate has become, Ms. Warren has since sought to distance herself from the Occupy Wall Street movement, describing it as “organic” and calling for demonstrators to obey the law.

In a statement, Mindy Myers, Ms. Warren’s campaign manager, said that “with every means they can, Wall Street and the big banks have already made it clear they are going to try to stop Elizabeth from getting elected.”
Even before Ms. Warren established herself as his likely opponent, Mr. Brown, who does not sit on any of the committees that deal with financial regulation, was among Wall Street’s strongest fund-raisers in Washington.
But several executives said that Ms. Warren’s entry into the campaign in mid-September had sparked renewed interest in Mr. Brown’s re-election.
“We are working very hard for Scott,” said Anthony Scaramucci, the managing partner of Skybridge Capital and a major Wall Street fund-raiser.