Feingold endorses Warren

 Posted by at 12:04 am  Politics
Sep 282011
 

Elizabeth Warren may well be the brightest light progressives have seen for the Senate since Bernie Sanders.  Today she received a major endorsement for that office.  Hopefully this is the first step toward making Scott Brown a bad memory and filling Teddy Kennedy’s seat with someone worthy of that honor.

28Elizabeth_WarrenElizabeth Warren’s campaign for U.S. Senate received a major endorsement on Tuesday, picking up the support of former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold. It’s Feingold’s first Senate endorsement of the 2012 election season and a clear indication that Warren’s race will be a top priority for progressives around the country.

In an email scheduled to be sent Tuesday morning, and provided to The Huffington Post by Feingold’s staff, Feingold calls support for Warren’s campaign "an absolutely crucial part of our fight against the nasty influence of corporate money in politics."

"Elizabeth has fought for years to rein in Wall Street and protect the middle class," writes Feingold in the email to backers of Progressives United, his political action committee.

"In 2005, she stood up against the Wall Street wish list of a bankruptcy bill — a huge corporate giveaway I opposed in the Senate. And after the big banks drove us into a recession, Elizabeth proposed a new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and then fought tirelessly to make sure the Obama administration created it. So when Elizabeth announced her decision to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts this month, to keep fighting for middle class families on Capitol Hill, I couldn’t have been happier."

Feingold even hints that Warren may be the best person to carry on his legacy in the Senate.

"In all my years in the Senate, I always took positions that I believed in, even when my own party tried to stand in the way," he writes. "I know Elizabeth will be exactly the same kind of senator."… [emphasis added]

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Because Elizabeth was also my first endorsement for the 2012 elections, I could not be more pleased, and urge you to support Elizabeth Warren in whatever ways you can.

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  9 Responses to “Feingold endorses Warren”

  1. PRESIDENT WARREN ;2016

  2. Being a product of Mayflower “blue bloods” my home of course was originally MA –  we used to have a republican household, now it’s democratic after the demise of my fascinista father whose ashes are currenty contributing to the ecological disaster that is the Gulf! My brothers are expecting to vote for Warren, but as for prez – they’ll vote against their party no matter what! That is the current status of this divided country! No representation of the Progressives in the government – with the exception of Saunders (who isn’t a democrat) My brothers would rather see the teaboogers get what they want and see them destroy the country than to abide the “2 party” system that is no longer representative of 2 parties, but one  party of corporate capitalism – they actually want to see the country go under – and allow it to spend the rest of the century to rebuild itself! This is a product of the capitulation that has resulted over decades by our weak democratic party! Obama is “right” of Nixon, with each acquiescence to the right – we have lost more ground on the left – leaving the country only either moderately republican (democrat) or fascist. So while I can’t convince them to change – I wonder if they have a point! Yes by all means support Warren!!

  3. I knew nothing about Russ Feingold other than a few comments at Care 2.  Today I googled him and was quite impressed with what I found.  Had I been in a position to vote, I probably would have voted for him.  One thing that became apparent in reading was that he didn’t always vote along party lines which to me is an indicator that he actually has a brain and uses it, unlike some others. “In all my years in the Senate, I always took positions that I believed in, even when my own party tried to stand in the way,” he writes. “I know Elizabeth will be exactly the same kind of senator.”…

    So, when he endorses someone like Elizabeth Warren that I had already researched and liked, I felt that was a good thing for her campaign.

    The people of Massachsetts, and indeed all of the US, deserve a senator that will put their interests first and fill the Senate seat left vacant by the untimely death of Teddy Kennedy.

    I agree with Phyllis ans Patty:  Warren for President in 2016.  It is time a good woman stepped into the Oval Office, and not as a spectator.

  4. She would be a great Senator on par with Bernie Sanders and she’ll win by a landslide, even without Playgirl pics.

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