Like so many former Obama staffers are "Ready for Warren" ...
Ready for Warren
[...]
Now, former staffers from President Obama’s campaigns, along with former staffers from OFA, are joining with the thousands of Americans who are calling on Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy.
We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
Signed,
{ 300 former Obama campaign staffers }
Like so many Workers looking for a fair shake, are "Ready for Warren" ...
Senator Warren's Remarks at AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages
warren.senate.gov -- Jan 7, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages.
[...]
Look at the choices Washington has made, the choices that have left America's middle class in a deep hole:
• the choice to leash up the financial cops,
• the choice in a recession to bail out the biggest banks with no strings attached while families suffered,
• the choice to starve our schools and burden our kids with billions of dollars of student loan debt while cutting taxes for billionaires,
• the choice to spend your tax dollars to subsidize Big Oil instead of putting that money into rebuilding our roads and bridges and power grids,
• the choice to look the other way when employers quit paying overtime, reclassified workers as independent contractors and just plain old stole people's wages,
• the choice to sign trade pacts and tax deals that let subsidized manufacturers around the globe sell here in America while good American jobs get shipped overseas.
‘If the TPP were to include provisions from past pacts that required unrestricted capital transfers, it could limit Congress’ prerogative to enact not only capital controls, but basic reform measures like a financial transactions tax.’
-- December 17, 2014, Senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues, Tammy Baldwin and Ed Markey, wrote to the White House, outlining a number of concerns in respect of the TPP.
But, but, it's not 'her turn' ... and more to the point, "it's not fair."
She doesn't have the Political history ... nor the Political clout ... {of the presumed Nominee.}
Worse yet, Elizabeth Warren doesn't have that Wall Street doner list ... to back her up when the going gets tough.
.
.
.
And these are "bad things"!?
The Political Win That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of The United States
by Miles Mogulescu, huffingtonpost.com -- 01/15/2015
[...] as an Atlantic Magazine column put it, if Warren doesn't run, "she'll do a tremendous disservice to her principles and her party."
"Warren is the only person standing between the Democrats and an uncontested Hillary Clinton nomination. She has already made clear what she thinks of the Clintons.
Warren has suggested that President Bill Clinton's administration served the same "trickle down" economics as its Republicans and predecessors.
Warren has denounced the Clinton administration's senior economic appointees as servitors of the big banks.
Warren has blasted Bill Clinton's 1996 claim that the era of big government is over and his repeal of Glass-Steagall and other financial regulations...
[...]
Sounds like she's getting ready for
'something' ...
We should be "welcoming" Warren;
Like millions upon millions of Americans, sick of preferential Wall Street treatment, will be "Ready for Warren" when she continues to stand up against them ...
Remarks by Senator Warren on Citigroup and its Bailout Provision
warren.senate.gov -- Dec 12, 2014
Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered remarks on the floor of the Senate this evening on the grasp Citigroup has on government.
[...]
Consider a few examples:
• Three of the last four Treasury Secretaries under Democratic presidents have had close Citigroup ties. The fourth was offered the CEO position at Citigroup, but turned it down.
• The Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve system is a Citigroup alum.
• The Undersecretary for International Affairs at Treasury is a Citigroup alum.
[...]
Fact one: During the financial crisis, when all the support through TARP and from the FDIC and the Fed is added up, Citi received nearly half a trillion dollars in bailouts. That’s half a trillion with a “t.” That’s almost $140 billion more than the next biggest bank got.
Fact two: During Dodd-Frank, there was an amendment introduced by my colleague Senator Brown and Senator Kaufman that would have broken up Citigroup and the nation’s other largest banks. That amendment had bipartisan support, and it might have passed, but it ran into powerful opposition from an alliance between Wall Streeters on Wall Street and Wall Streeters who held powerful government jobs. They teamed up and blocked the move to break up the banks -- and now Citi is bigger than ever.
Fact 3)
Political Dynasties and Corporate Favoritism are a big part of the Problem. People like Senator Warren who dare to stand up against the 'rigged system', are a KEY part of the Solution.
Are you "Ready for Warren"?
If so, take a few moments and let her know ...
email_the_senator
Sign the Petition.
RunWarrenRun.org
[...]
We’re part of a growing grassroots movement to convince Senator Warren to run for president. Build the momentum by inviting others to join. Will you take 30 seconds to invite your friends?
The game is rigged, and the rich and powerful have lobbyists and lawyers and plenty of friends in Congress. We can whine about it, we can whimper about it, or we can fight back. I’m fighting back!”
-- Elizabeth Warren
Are your ready to 'fight back' too? ... Are you ready to have Warren's back
... when the going against Wall Street, gets tough?