OK so I didn't actually TALK to her, but I was on the phone with her and about a million other people.
She said that there are a lot of Senators who are on the fence about TPP and we need to call or email our senators TODAY and the them to vote 'no'.
She mentioned that fast track would be for any president who was in the WH for the next six years!
Can we risk that? What if it's Jeb? He'll be able to basically have executive powers over trade and all of those countries for his entire time in the WH. This is scary.
She also said that trade isn't a D or an R issue and so many senators are not with 'their party' on this.
more of what she said below the ravioli
So Elizabeth Warren doesn't want us to lose hope. She told the story (that she'd told in her interview that some Kosac had up here with her and Paul Krugman that was delicious) about how she got the consumer protection agency going even with the banks spending a million dollars a day to have it destroyed.
She talked about student loans and the interest rate needs to be lowered. Apparently they lost that vote by ONE vote!
She also said that expanding social security already had a number of gems who'd signed on to support it.
She is one of the most intelligent women in the world, I think. She is so articulate.
Anyway —- Call or email your senator about TPP!!! They're going to vote on it on Friday so we have one day. If all of us do this, we can stop it from happening. It's dangerous.
Oh! No one asked her if she supported Hillary or Bernie… Damn!
I have to go pick up my husband from his dj gig now.