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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmail from Elizabeth Warren: I'm supporting Kamala
Don,
Barbara Boxer has been my friend and mentor in the United States Senate, and Im very sorry that well be losing her strong leadership when she retires in 2016.
But it is also true that Im really excited about whats in store for California and our country.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is a smart, tough, and experienced prosecutor who has consistently stood up to Wall Street. Yesterday, she announced her candidacy for the United States Senate, and Im happy to support her campaign.
Lets help Kamala Harris build the grassroots team shell need to stand up to the powerful interests and win in California in 2016. Will you help us raise $25,000 for her Senate campaign right now?
Let me take just a moment to tell you what makes Kamala Harris so special.
When the housing market crashed in 2008, California was hit hard. Home prices had shot through the roof, and families that were desperately afraid they might be priced out of housing forever took on big mortgages. But those werent just standard, here-are-the-payments mortgages. No, millions of people ended up with mortgages that were loaded with tricks and traps, sold by both big banks and fly-by-night mortgage lenders. When the market collapsed, these people couldnt pay their mortgages, they couldnt refinance, and they couldnt sell their homes.
Attorney General Kamala Harris demanded real accountability from the lenders. She wasnt intimidated by the big banks. When the negotiations in the National Mortgage Settlement werent tough enough on the banks, Kamala took a bold move. She said that her job was to protect the people of California, not help the big banks, so she pulled out of the group negotiations and later secured $20 billion in relief for struggling California homeowners. And to help prevent another crisis from happening again, she fought for a new California Homeowner Bill of Rights one of the most comprehensive sets of foreclosure reform laws in the country.
I worked with Kamala, and I saw up close and personal that she is tough, she is principled, and she fights hard.
We need more leaders in Washington who are willing to fight for a level playing field for working families. Kamala came to Massachusetts to help our campaign in 2012, and Im doing what I can to make sure Kamala Harris makes it to the United States Senate in 2016.
Donate now to Kamala Harriss campaign so she can fight by my side for Americas middle class.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Elizabeth
P.S. You and I know all too well what happens when you stand up to the big banks they fight back with everything theyve got. Lets give Kamala the grassroots support shell need to stand up to the powerful interests. Become an early supporter of her campaign.
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Email from Elizabeth Warren: I'm supporting Kamala (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2015
OP
Autumn
(45,120 posts)1. Would you please cross post this in the Elizabeth Warren group?
genwah
(574 posts)2. Also, money helps. Harris will need small donations.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)3. K & R !!!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)4. Me too!
Just donated!