Scott Brown Bobble Head Video

On the campaign trail, Scott Brown promised to be an independent voice for Massachusetts. But since he took office, Brown has turned into a real "bobble head" for Wall Street and the Republican leadership.

To shipping jobs overseas.

Scott Brown voted to filibuster the Creating American Jobs & Ending Offshoring Act, a bill would have ended tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs or build plants and offices offshore to replace American facilities. (US Senate roll call vote #242, 9/28/10)

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To tax breaks for oil companies and billionaires

In the face of drastic budget cuts, Scott Brown voted to protect billions in oil industry tax breaks – and has consistently defended the failed George W Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent of Americans. (US Senate roll call vote #72, 5/17/11)

To slashing Medicaid and Social Security

Brown voted for drastic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security--and promised future cuts to these critical programs in a recent address to Brighton, MA seniors. Brown continued to flatly rejected closing loopholes on big oil companies or billionaires to stave off the cuts. (Boston Globe, 8/8/11; US Senate Roll Call Vote #116, 7/22/11)

To ending unemployment benefits for out-of-work Massachusetts residents.

Scott Brown voted eight times to end federal unemployment benefits for people who have lost their jobs. Because of Brown’s stall tactics, 30,000 out-of-work Bay Staters saw their jobless benefits disappear in 2010. (2010 US Senate roll call votes #48, #116, #117, #194, #200, #204, #209 and #215)

To gutting job training assistance for 27,000 potential workers

Scott Brown supported a Republican budget bill that would have gutted $55.9 million in federal job training assistance, affecting 27,000 unemployed Massachusetts workers. (US Senate roll call vote #36, 3/9/11)

To slashing $665 million in federal assistance for Massachusetts

Scott Brown voted twice to slash $665 in federal aid meant to protect Medicaid funding and keep 2,900 teachers on the job across the commonwealth. (US Senate roll call vote #200, 6/24/10 and #228, 8/5/10)

To eliminating 7,000 jobs for Bay State youth

Scott Brown voted to eliminate $86 million in federal funding to support 500,000 youth jobs nationwide, including more than 7,000 in Massachusetts. (US Senate roll call vote #45, 3/9/10)

Call Scott Brown at (617) 565-3170 and ask him to start saying YES to Massachusetts working families and seniors -- not Wall Street and the Republican leadership.

Republican Senator Scott Brown Fundraising with The Tea Party's - Koch Brothers'

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Scott Brown Begs David Koch For Money

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Scott Brown Begs David Koch For Money: pAt the public dedication of MIT’s David H. Koch Integrative Cancer Institute last Friday, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) effusively thanked conservative billionaire David Koch for supporting his election in 2010 and made a plea for help in his re-election campaign next year. David Koch directly gave the National Republican Senatorial Committee $30,400 in November 2009, [...]/p

Elizabeth Warren and local democratic activist John Bangert, from Harwich Town Committee

Cape Cod's 1st  Meet & Greet 
for 

Elizabeth Warren

• Consumer Advocate

• Law Professor

• White House Advisor  

• Possible Candidate for US Senate?

Today's Event in Falmouth

 Sunday, August 21
 

3-5pm
 

Tom & Linda Lebach's Home

98 County Road
North Falmouth

Meet the Press!

A voice we need to hear

By Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist / August 21, 2011

It’s hard to tell who is more fired up about Elizabeth Warren’s likely US Senate candidacy.

Is it Democrats, joyful at the prospect of the Harvard law professor taking on incumbent Senator Scott Brown? Or Republicans, frothing up a storm in an attempt to define and defeat her before she even announces?

It’s a close call, but I’m going to give it to the GOP.

In a flurry of press releases, they’ve been pushing an image of Warren - who established the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - as an outsider from Oklahoma, a Washington insider, and an Ivory Tower elitist who knows little of the world beyond Cambridge.

In addition to these all-over-the-map appellations, they’re also calling her “militant.’’ Seen most often in the company of “Islam’’ and “feminist,’’ it’s a dog-whistle word, meant to freak out voters who identify with men in barn jackets and pickups.

Warren is certainly passionate and direct.

In a press call a few weeks ago, she blamed Republicans for trying to throttle the agency she set up even before it gets going.

“I’m saving all the rocks in my pockets for Republicans,’’ she said in an Atlantic Monthly account. “A year ago, we had a fight about whether to make it a strong, independent agency, or make it some weak, lame thing that isn’t going to get anything done.

Republicans lost that fight. Now they want to turn around and see if they can fight it again. They want to embrace the system that failed.’’

Warren called it right. The new agency is designed to protect consumers from the deceptive, predatory practices of mortgage and credit card companies, and of banks - the institutions that led us into the subprime morass, derailed the economy and, in some cases, were rewarded with bailouts using our money.

Republican lawmakers, some of them in the pockets of these very institutions, are trying to declaw the bureau, partly by making it dependent on Congress for funding. Increasingly allergic to regulation of any kind, they’ve pulled out their tired “let the market work it out’’ argument - the very approach that got us into this mess in the first place.

“We’re not here to serve banks,’’ Warren said. “We’re not here to serve Wall Street. We’re not here to serve Congress. We’re here to serve American families.’’

Warren fought for a fully independent agency, or nothing. She is determined not to let it go down without a fight, or, as she told local Democratic activists, without “blood and teeth on the floor.’’

I could do without the bodily injury metaphors, but I’m grateful for Warren’s tough talk. (I’m less thrilled that she has declined to let local reporters hear it so far.)

We could have used more of that frankness from other Democrats, and especially from President Obama, during the debt ceiling fiasco, laying out exactly what the Republicans were doing: holding the economy - and especially poor and middle-class Americans - hostage to the interests of the rich and powerful.

For all of his strengths as a campaigner, directness is a quality Scott Brown lacks - or avoids. He declines to state clear positions on most issues until his vote doesn’t matter, often ducking reporters altogether.

Warren isn’t the only Democrat hoping to unseat the Republican who tells it like it is. But right now, she has the biggest megaphone.

If she runs, I hope she resists the temptation to go native, to start sounding like a politician. That she’ll be as forceful and unvarnished as a candidate as she is as a consumer advocate.

Massachusetts voters like politicians who say exactly what they think. They can handle the truth, without hedging or sugar-coating. And now, more than ever, they need to hear it.

Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at abraham@globe.com. 

Berkshire Democrats Want Warren to Run, Run, Run

By Andy McKeever
iBerkshires Staff 

iBerkshire.com

Local attorney and Democratic leader Sherwood Guernsey said the amount of people who came to his office to support Elizabeth Warren was 'fantastic' —  especially on three-days notice, in the summer and on a Friday.

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The Berkshire Brigades decorated the law office with mock signs, buttons and large banners encouraging Warren to run.  

Elizabeth Warren has been meeting with Democrats across the state as she debates running against Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate seat next year.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. —  More than a few local Democrats would be ecstatic if Elizabeth Warren decides to run against Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate.

Warren is kicking around the idea of running and stopped in Pittsfield on Friday to meet with party members to gauge their support as part of a listening tour across the state.

What she found in Berkshire County was a whole lot of support.

"She is exactly the person we need in the U.S. Senate," Lee Harrison, chairman of the local Democratic organization, said. "We're going to campaign like hell for her."

Warren, a Harvard professor teaching contract, bankruptcy and commercial law, boasts a resume that includes chief adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, member of the Federal Judicial Education Committee and most recently appointed as assistant to the president and special adviser to the secretary of the Treasury on consumer financial protection.

A movement to draft Warren for a Senate run has raised $100,000; on Thursday, she filed to form an exploratory committee. Many Democrats see her as a home-run candidate to oust Brown, a Wrentham Republican who won in a special election last year to complete the late Ted Kennedy's term.

In 2008, Warren was picked to chair the special Congressional Oversight Panel for the government bailout and she pushed for formation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was signed into law last July.

"We just kept pushing. We not only got the bill, we got a stronger version of the bill. We got a consumer agency," Warren told a packed room in the Law Offices of Sherwood Guernsey. "It repairs one hole in the bottom of the boat. There is so much more that is going on."

The country is now in a time where it can re-write the rules regarding economics, she said, and she wants to focus on rebuilding the middle class. The Senate seat could provide an avenue but if she is going to make a successful run, Warren said it will need to be a "truly" grassroots campaign.

"This is not about going down to be a polite senator," Warren said. "We don't have 30 years to fix these problems."

Warren spent more than an hour with the local group discussing politics and the goal of rebuilding "middle-class opportunities."

"Families are caught in a squeeze - no higher income but all the big costs are going up," Warren said.

That middle-class focus resonated with the local Democrats, many of whom pleaded with her to run. The office was decorated with signs and buttons reading "run, Elizabeth, run."

"I'm here to endorse your running," Democratic doyenne and former Middle Berkshire Registrar of Deeds Mary O'Brien told Warren. "What we'd like to do for you is to go out and speak to people across the state."

Brigade member Ethan Klepetar said a grassroots campaign for Warren is "the way to go."

"I'm very excited about Elizabeth Warren," Klepetar said. "She has terrific ideas about economic policy."

With just three days notice on a rainy Friday in August, Democrats from all over the county jumped at the invitation and filled the offices for a chance to speak with Warren. Guernsey, a former state representative, said it was one of the biggest turnouts he's seen for a person who is not an announced candidate.

"The energy she brings is something people are yearning for," Guernsey, also a Brigade member, said. "She has stood up for people in the middle class for years."

Harrison said he likes her leadership and ability to stand up against pressures — traits that will help her lead a successful campaign.

Warren has held 12 meetings in five days with Democratic leaders across the state and has four more scheduled. Announced candidates for the Democratic nomination include Newton Mayor Setti Warren; Wayland Rep. Tom Conroy; City Year founder Alan Khazei, immigration attorney Marisa DeFranco and activist and nonprofit executive Robert Massie.

 

Elizabeth Warren Edges Closer to U.S. Senate Run in Mass. - NYTimes.com

 

Warren Edges Closer to Senate Run

By ABBY GOODNOUGH

BOSTON — Elizabeth Warren has enlisted two former aides to Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts to help her assess whether to run for the United States Senate and will make a decision after Labor Day, a Democrat familiar with her efforts said Thursday.

Ms. Warren, who set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington but was not nominated by President Obama to run it, also seemed to be laying ground for a Senate run in a posting Thursday on the liberal blog Blue Mass Group. 

She described her working-class background, noted that she and her husband were returning to “our home of 17 years in Massachusetts” and added that while she had left Washington, “I don’t plan to stop fighting for middle-class families.”

“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,” Ms. Warren wrote on the blog. “In the weeks ahead, I want to hear from you about the challenges we face and how we get our economy growing again. I also want to hear your ideas about how we can fix what all of us – regardless of party – know is a badly broken political system.”

Doug Rubin, a former chief of staff to Mr. Patrick who also ran his two campaigns for governor, and Kyle Sullivan, Mr. Patrick’s former spokesman, will be working with Ms. Warren as she makes a decision over the coming weeks, according to several Democratic operatives here.

Ms. Warren, a 62-year-old native of Oklahoma, lives in Cambridge and teaches at Harvard Law School. Seven other Democrats have already jumped into the race against Senator Scott Brown, a popular and well-financed freshman who won a special election in 2010 for the seat that Edward M. Kennedy had held for 47 years. But some state and national Democratic officials say that so far, the field lacks a standout. 

By Michael Muskal

August 18, 2011, 2:25 p.m.

Elizabeth Warren, the darling of progressives, on Thursday moved a step closer to running against Sen. Scott Brown by forming an exploratory committee and launching a website for her likely race in Massachusetts.
A consumer advocate and Harvard law professor, she has been signaling for weeks that she is preparing to run against Brown in what will become a closely watched Senate race in 2012.


Amid the frenzy over President Obama’s healthcare overhaul, Brown, with the backing of the “tea party” movement, captured the Senate seat held by the late liberal icon, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. When Brown won in 2010, he gave the GOP a 41st seat, ending the Democrats’ effective supermajority so that the majority party and its independent allies were no longer able to block a Republican filibuster.


Top Democrats, including Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, have been urging Warren, now visiting with groups around the state, to run. With Thursday’s actions, she can raise money and solicit volunteers on her website as she decides whether to formally announce her run. About a half-dozen other Democrats are eyeing the race.


EMILY’s List, a group that helps elect to office Democratic women who support abortion rights, gave Warren an immediate boost. In a posting on the group’s website, president Stephanie Schriock praised Warren.


 “The EMILY's List community has been telling me loud and clear that they want Elizabeth Warren in the race to beat Scott Brown,” Schriock wrote. “Today, they got a little bit closer to getting their wish. I’m thrilled that Elizabeth is pursuing this next endeavor with the thoughtfulness and respect that's been such a hallmark of her career. Starting a listening tour is not only a great way to find out what folks need, it's a perfect contrast to Republican Scott Brown, who has yet to hold a single public town hall.”


Warren has never run for public office before, but she has been highly visible in consumer circles. President Obama chose her to launch  the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but strong congressional Republican opposition proved to be too much of a barrier. Obama eventually picked someone else to head the agency.

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Elizabeth Warren looks poised to run for Senate seat from Massashusetts

Warren looks poised to run for Senate seat

MASSACHUSETTS US SENATE CAMPAIGN 2012

Online posting indicates strong interest in race 

August 12, 2011

By Theo Emery, Globe Staff

Elizabeth Warren hasn't disclosed her plans, but some say her intentions are clear.

WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Warren, the architect of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent her clearest signal yet yesterday that she will challenge Republican Scott Brown for his Senate seat.

In a posting on a website supportive of the Democratic Party, Warren tells the tale of her Aunt Bee and Aunt Bert. Her father’s heart attack and the family’s struggle to pay its bills. Her battle scars from Washington, her empathy for middle-class families in Massachusetts, and lastly, her entreaties for ideas on fixing “a badly broken political system.’’

 “If the question is ‘Will she run,’ I think she’s putting her track shoes on,’’ said Tufts University political science professor James M. Glazer. “It’s pretty clear.’’

here has been widespread speculation that Warren might challenge Brown for the seat that he won in a special election early last year after the death of Edward M. Kennedy. 

Up until yesterday, Warren has not broadcast her intentions, but some activists have urged her to add her name to the field that already includes seven Democrats, including Mayor Setti Warren of Newton and City Year founder Alan Khazei. 

Although Elizabeth Warren’s posting does not explicitly say she will run, it dispels any uncertainty about her interest. She has enlisted the assistance of two Democratic operatives with a track record: Governor Deval Patrick’s former campaign manager, Doug Rubin, and Patrick’s former communications manager, Kyle Sullivan. Also, she was calling activists, office holders, and state party officials, including Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, yesterday afternoon.

Longtime Democratic political consultant Mary Anne Marsh said there has been a crescendo of chatter among Massachusetts Democrats this week over Warren’s possible bid. The blog post, she said, “sounds like a candidate to me’’ and puts to rest any doubt about Warren’s intentions.

“It’s very clear from all the signs that Elizabeth Warren is putting a campaign together. It looks like she’s getting into the Senate race, and that she’ll make that announcement just after Labor Day,’’ Marsh said.

A group of activists is already planning for such an announcement. A political action committee called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee launched an online petition drive that it said had already attracted some 47,000 signers and $45,000 in donations.

Sullivan, reached yesterday, confirmed that he was working for Warren, but declined to comment beyond what was in the blog posting. Warren did not return a message left at her Cambridge home.

Timothy Buckley, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party, dismissed Warren’s overture, calling her “a liberal professor who believes in big government and higher taxes.’’