Up here in Massachusetts, many of us have been hoping Professor Elizabeth Warren, will run for the Senate seat of former Senator Ted Kennedy, now occupied by Republican Senator Scott Brown.
After being passed over as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, (CFPB) that she conceived of an implemented, she may be planning to run against Senator Scott Brown, to help us put the seat formerly held by Senator Ted Kennedy back into the Democratic column.
Caitlin Huey-Burns, of RealClearPolitics, reports Warren Looking More Like a Senate Candidate.
Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor who helped create the new consumer financial protection bureau, has enlisted the help of two top Massachusetts Democratic operatives, a sign that she is closer than ever to entering the race to challenge popular Republican Sen. Scott Brown. But Republicans quickly fired back at the news, pointing to the operatives' lobbying connections.
Two aides instrumental in Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s campaign and administration are assisting Warren's exploratory effort: Doug Rubin, a prominent strategist and Patrick’s former campaign manager, and Kyle Sullivan, the governor’s former communications director...
Apparently, Professor Warren will make up her mind over Labor Day.
Warren is expected to make a decision about entering the race after Labor Day, a Democrat close to her told RCP. She has already started to make calls around the Bay State to test the political waters there. She will embark on a state tour of sorts, making calls to and visiting personally with local officials, Democratic Party leaders and activists. She will spend a lot of time on the phone and in meetings listening to people, according to the Democratic source.
When Elizabeth Warren's service to the President and our nation ended last week, she made it clear her public service was not over.
“I left Washington, but I don’t plan to stop fighting for middle class families,” she wrote on the website Blue Mass Group in a post that resembles an early campaign stump speech. “I spent years working against special interests and have the battle scars to show for it -- and I have no intention of stopping now. It is time for me to think hard about what role I can play next to help rebuild a middle class that has been hacked at, chipped at, and pulled at for more than a generation -- and that is under greater strain every day.” ...
Few doubt she will have difficulty fundraising, though, which will be crucial if she hopes to unseat Brown, who sits atop a near $10 million war chest.
Elizabeth Warren exhibits the most admirable possible behavior and ethos of public service, competence, integrity, grace, courage, and dedication to the common good. If she chooses to run, I will do anything I can to help her win here in Massachusetts.
And, I think the Scott Brown forces, fear her run more than any other. When I was waiting for my SO, at the New England Baptist Hospital last week I read four articles in the The Boston Herald, which is not as liberal, or respectable as the Boston Globe, trying to frame Elizabeth Warren as an effete, out of state, Cambridge liberal, compared to "good-ole-boy" regular Red Sox fan, Scott Brown. The classic Massachusetts Republican strategy to split the working class, guy on the street away from the Democratic Party.
So, we can already see the outline of the battle, which will be much tougher than it should be.
But, it is such a shame for Massachusetts, one of the bluest of all states to have a Republican Senator.
I give Elizabeth Warren my highest endorsement, and will do whatever I can to get her elected here.
Please help me chant.
Run, Elizabeth, Run!