2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumScott Brown petition on Facebook: Tell Professor Warren to Release Her Corporate Legal Clients
Sign This Petition To Tell Professor Warren to Release Her Corporate Legal Clients
In light of the recent news about Elizabeth Warrens work on behalf of corporate giants Travelers Insurance Company and LTV Steel, U.S. Senator Scott Brown sent the following letter to the Harvard Professor today asking her to provide a complete accounting of your corporate legal clients during your years at Harvard.
Sign This Petition Here:Name*
First
LastEmail*
Zip Code*
September 26, 2012
Elizabeth Warren For Senate
5 Middlesex Ave, First Floor
Somerville, MA 02145
Dear Professor Warren,
In recent days, it has come to light that your outside legal work has included corporate clients, including the insurance giant Travelers and the conglomerate LTV Steel.
In each case, your work for these corporations is at odds with the image you portray on the campaign trail fighting for the middle class and the little guy. Based on media accounts, you earned nearly a quarter million dollars working for these corporations in an effort to deny workers their just compensation and promised health care benefits.
Already during this campaign, serious questions have arisen with regard to your handling of your ethnicity and your claims to being a Native American. It has been revealed that you switched your ethnic identity to minority at a time when you were seeking professional advancement, only to switch it back to white once you reached your desired position. Now, voters are learning that contrary to your claim to always stand with middle-class workers, you have instead chosen to stand with large corporations and against workers.
Voters deserve to know your full involvement in these types of cases. Therefore, I am calling on you to provide a complete accounting of your corporate legal clients during your years at Harvard. On multiple occasions in the past, you have declined similar requests. In May, you denied a request from the Boston Globe to disclose a full list of the cases you have been involved in. Earlier this week during an appearance on WTKK radio, you claimed that such a list doesnt exist.
However, as you know, Harvard Law School requires its faculty members to report outside activities each year. There is a list, and it does exist. Youve compiled it before, and youve provided it to your employer. I believe the voters of Massachusetts for whom you seek to work now are entitled to no less a standard of transparency than what you provide to Harvard each year.
Taken together with your refusal to satisfy media demands for a full six years of tax returns and your refusal to release your university personnel files, these new revelations leave voters with a disturbing and confusing picture of whose interests you really represent.
During this campaign, you have accused others of siding with big corporations. As it turns out, you are the only candidate in this race who has stood on the side of large corporate interests over the middle class.
I look forward to your prompt and thorough disclosure.
Sincerely,
Scott P. Brown
United States Senator
link to petition: http://www.scottbrown.com/tell-warren-to-release-her-records/
Fuck you Scott Brown.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)He let reporters view one year's worth, briefly, but they weren't allowed to take photos. Also, no accountants were allowed to view them.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)as soon as YOU release a list of every corporate dime, including from the PACs, that has ever been given to YOU!
rocktivity
onehandle
(51,122 posts)klook
(12,167 posts)Oh yeah, and the Super PACs who've donated to his campaign.
Loser.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)The Party of "We Take Money from Foreign Companies and Countries But Don't Have to Say Who They Are Because 'Money Is Free Speech' and 'Corporations Are People'?"
What a Mittstain!
Botany
(70,585 posts)does attorneyclient privilege mean anything to him?
BTW what is this shit? He brought 'it" up she didn't.
"Already during this campaign, serious questions have arisen with regard to your handling
of your ethnicity and your claims to being a Native American."
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Katie
(674 posts)I am so worried about Elizabeth Warren, I don't understand why the race is so close in Massachusetts. Do you think it would help if Obama went to Massachusetts and appears with her at a rally? He is very popular there, and I think he needs to make the case, just how much he needs her in the Senate to help him get his legislation through. We need more Democrats in the Senate, especially Democrats that are progressive like Warren. I'm really worried. Brown is a big phony.
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)What I get from this is he seems desperate.