Elizabeth Warren, the next Senator from Massachusetts

[FogerRox]

AS mentioned by a certain NJ Senator this afternoon at a small private event here in Montclair NJ....

[BlueCaliDem]

1. I really hope this is true. I really, really hope she runs against Scottie Brown(noser)

and win another seat for Democrats in the Senate.

Too bad we still have too m any RepubliDems in our caucus, though.

[FogerRox]

15. Like I said a certain (Hispanic) Senator said this at my friends house on Sunday.

[BlueCaliDem]

20. I think I saw him on MSNBC today. :-D

This is WONDERFUL news, FogerRox! And I've noticed, during the interview with Mrs. Greenspan this morning, that our esteemed and beloved Elizabeth did NOT deny or say no to that possibility. I've been smiling all day! :D

You are so lucky!

[Arctic Dave]

2. Don't even get my hopes up.

I think i got a little giddy just thinking about it.

[Forkboy]

3. I could handle that.

:)

[FogerRox]

17. Me too.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. News story just broke about this

Elizabeth Warren may be ‘wild card’ in senate race


White House consumer adviser Elizabeth Warren — cited as the Democratic favorite to take down U.S. Sen. Scott Brown — may now be free to run for the Senate seat after President Obama passed over her for a top federal post in a move that could seismically shake up the race.

“It’s fair to say that there is no one yet that is making Scott Brown tremble,” said Paul Watanabe, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. “And until someone with the stature of Elizabeth Warren . . . steps up, Scott Brown has got to believe his chances are pretty solid.”

Warren, a Harvard Law professor, was seen as President Obama’s top choice to head the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but faced strong Republican opposition, even as national Democrats courted her as a potential Brown challenger. Yesterday, Obama named former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the new bureau.


Political experts said yesterday Warren has both the appeal and the access to deep donor pockets to seriously challenge Brown. And given the role Senate Republicans played in derailing her shot at the federal post, she could have a strong motive to recapture the iconic so-called Kennedy seat for the Democrats.

“Politics is about getting even,” said Thomas Whalen, a Boston University political history professor. “That would be something to see.”

“She’s a wild card,” Watanabe said. “In some ways, she would be the fresh new face, interestingly playing the role that Scott Brown played when he ran in the special election. He’s the Washington insider now . . . she would clearly be somebody who’s never held elective office.”

But Warren would have to decide soon, one leading local Democrat said.

“I know her, and am a great fan of hers, and there’s a lot of interest in her potential candidacy, but she has given no indication thus far if she is interested,” said former state Democratic Party Chairman Philip Johnston. “And the window for that . . . is closing, because there’s an incumbent who has $10 million in the bank as we speak.”

Republicans played down the Warren threat.

“It’s pretty clear that national Democrats are unhappy with the current field, but I’m not sure a liberal Harvard professor from Oklahoma who has never run for office before is the answer,” said Mass. GOP spokesman Tim Buckley.

Democratic spokesman Kevin Franck, meanwhile, said the party welcomes all candidates, but called the current field “an embarrassment of riches.”

http://bostonherald.com.nyud.net/news/us_politics/view/2011_0718warren_may_be_wild_card_in_senate_race/

[SoCalDem]

5. As much as I would like for her to run, I'm betting she won't

She LOATHES game-playing & parsing. She's a straight taller who takes no prisoners. I cannot see her getting much monetary support from the lobbyists who own congress either.

Oddly enough she has more "power" as an outsider than she ever would have a a novice female senator..1 of 100

I'm sure she would be flattered to be asked, but I don't see her doing it.

[AtomicKitten]

6. I would LOVE for her to take back Teddy's seat.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/07/obama-elizabeth-warren-cfpb-cordray-senate

[freshwest]

10. +1 and thanks for the link

[FogerRox]

16. And a lot of Mass voters are begging to make that kind of vote again.

[Liquorice]

7. K&R I hope she runs for president in 2016. nt

[Major Hogwash]

8. Won't happen, she doesn't want THAT job.

LoL

Well, that's what they were all saying about the Consumer position!!

[valerief]

9. Hope so. Send Brown back to the centerfold. nt

[provis99]

11. oh, poof. What nonsense.

[Mudoria]

12. I'm not sure she would be interested

She seems like an honest, moral and ethical woman. She would be so out of place in Congress with those virtues.

[FogerRox]

13. She has told the WH she doesnt want a full 5 yr term at CFPB, according to Rep Frank.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/warren-didnt-want-permane_n_719932.html

[JoePhilly]

14. She'd be great. nt

[Dystopian]

18. KandR

Thank you for posting this..

We can let her know she has our support:
http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/warren_draft/?referring_akid=a7304223.776382.Cz-Dzv&source=auto-e


peace~

[FogerRox]

19. Thanks fore the rec.