Elizabeth Warren

RiverLover

(7,830 posts) Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:01 PM Feb 2015

Guess what? "We're on the cover of a magazine"

Just got this email~

Guess what? We're on the cover of a magazine.

That's right -- you, me, and everyone who is part of the draft Warren movement are featured on the cover of The Nation’s new issue.

It's another great reminder of just how serious this movement has become.

The whole article is worth a look, but there’s one particularly noteworthy story about how Elizabeth Warren reluctantly entered politics as part of a panel tasked with helping reform bankruptcy laws.

Despite her hesitation about getting involved in something political, Warren eventually realized that it was up to her to look out for working families:

“There were other people on the commission who were perfectly willing to take it over, and who frankly in my view had a totally wrongheaded view about the families who were in bankruptcy and the changes that needed to be made,” Warren recalled in the UCTV interview. “I just looked around and said, ‘Look, either I step up, or nobody does.’”

Sound familiar? That's the moment we're in right now, and that's why the work we're doing is so important.

And we're not in it alone. Earlier this week, more than 90 artists and entertainers joined the effort to draft Warren -- including Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon, Olivia Wilde, Joss Whedon, Chloë Sevigny, and a whole lot more.

We're one week away from Presidents' Day, the culmination of our three-month "Time for Warren" campaign. It's definitely NOT the end of the draft Warren movement, but it's a big milestone for Ready for Warren.

We'll have more info soon on what's in store for Presidents' Day, as well as what comes next.

Every day, more and more people join this movement -– thanks for being part of it.

Erica

Erica Sagrans
Campaign Manager
Ready for Warren

The article~

Elizabeth Warren Insists She’s Not Running for President. These Activists Are Trying to Change Her Mind.

...“This push to have her run is a stalking horse for a larger debate that is going on within the party,” said Jim Manley, a longtime Senate aide who worked for Ted Kennedy and later, during the early years of Obama’s presidency, for Senate minority leader Harry Reid. “I can’t sit here and talk to you honestly and deny that there’s a debate going on about what we in the party stand for, and more importantly, what happened in November, and where we’re going in the future, and how we’re going to get there.”

Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota, co-chair of the Progressive Caucus in the House, agreed. He described a fight inside the Democratic Party that’s increasingly breaking into public view: an argument “between do we try to go figure out what industry and business wants, and then sort of do a few things at the margin for the poor and the middle class, or do we go all-in and really try to reshape this nation in a Roosevelt-type format?”

Warren has expertly positioned herself as a leader of those clamoring for more radical reforms, picking her openings carefully and maximizing the public impact. Her work on the panel overseeing the financial bailouts was a sneak preview. She battled Timothy Geithner, who was treasury secretary at the time, with specific policy complaints and great relish. These moments were immediately packaged into YouTube videos titled “It’s called accountability!” that got hundreds of thousands of hits....

http://www.thenation.com/article/197185/elizabeth-warren-insists-shes-not-running-president-these-activists-are-trying-change

All in Keith, we want Roosevelt Dems back!!