I am all in for Elizabeth Warren. Even before the flop. I may not even look at the cards in my hand. Why? One word. She is formidable. Yes, there are many to choose from: smart, (the oft-cited Harvard Law Professor sure is smart), tenacious, straightforward, tireless, charming, persuasive, possessing of the common touch, and possessing the skill sets to scare the heck out of any foe – large or small, hence formidable.
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”
What has become a proclamation; part of a ripple that may become a wave—the OWA (Occupy Wall Street protesters) could do a lot worse. Warren touched on something: the desire to find a cogent response to a powerful conservative message. A message that often controls the agenda of public life.
Adding to the texture of her formadibility is a wonderfully homespun back story, such as waiting tables at her aunt’s Mexican restaurant. And she has also shown a feistyness that one needs in any high-powered election battle. By now it’s nearly famous how she took a little jab at my classmate Scott Brown (BC Law) and her opponent. Pretending to seem as offhanded and casual as possible, Warren poked fun at opponent Scott Brown’s nude pictures in GQ, which he took in law school and claims it was all and only about the money. Be fine with me, if he had a record—something, anything. A pickup truck is not a record of service. Professor Warren went on to make clear her own college experience. “I kept my clothes on,” replied Warren when asked how she paid her way through Houston University and Rutgers Law (that is to say: student loans and a part-time job). Told that Warren “kept her clothes on,” Brown commented, “Thank God.”
The Corporate Observer has covered Elizabeth Warren and her CFPB for the last several years. The below posts are a small sampling of the Warren coverage TCO has had:
Entering the workforce, as a young lawyer, women were — as they always had been — my colleagues and competitors. But for the first time, I started seeing a distinction between men and women in the workplace.
I was attending a conference at no less than the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, just across Lafayette Park from the White House. I was there to see and hear Professor Elizabeth Warren. Since 2008, she hasbeen a powerful voice for consumers; no, she has been the most powerful voice for consumers. And now as she races to get the new Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) up and running, she faces the full court press of corporate, banking and Wall Street interests attempting to derail her.
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Professor Warren is straightforward, persuasive and charming. And this was no friendly audience.
My attendance at today’s event at the Chamber reminded me of the harsh reality that we have two teams in Washington. Two sides, Democrat and Republican; left and right; conservative and liberal. Call it what you like. Despite her best efforts atfinding common ground, between those two sides even the mighty Elizabeth Warren will not so easily succeed.
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With her brains, charm and experience, Elizabeth Warren will be an advocate for the middle class and consumers. Not just for Massachusetts but for our entire nation. When its time, as they say in my hometown of Chicago, “vote early and often” for Elizabeth Warren. For now send her a check, send her two, at www.ElizabethWarren.com. The country needs her more than ever. Scott Brown, her opponent, is a nice guy and nice looking, but he hardly has the brains, gravitas and devotion to the needs of consumers embraced by Professor Warren.
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