Elizabeth Warren

[William769]

Elizabeth Warren: I’m afraid every day. But that doesn’t mean that I’ll ever stop trying. That’s all I can ever promise.

BW: What are your main priorities for the LGBT community, if elected?

EW: Repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. I find it personally offensive that the federal government would pass a law to say that the terms of marriage should be left to the states; and then each state must recognize every other state’s marriage laws and then the federal government will recognize those laws except in the case of marriage equality. To discriminate against our own people and to enshrine that in federal law appalls me.

BW: Does your background in finance and economics give you insight to the costs, to both individuals and the government, of discrimination?

EW: I first wrestled with DOMA in my bankruptcy work. As you may know, a married couple is entitled to certain jointly held benefits if they file for bankruptcy but that is denied a same-sex couple married here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That’s where I first started talking about this issue and the impact DOMA has on people in very tangible ways.

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I wished I was able to vote for her

[joeybee12]

1. love her...knr

[Zorra]

2. We need to do everything we can as a community to make sure

she wins her Senate seat in Massachusetts.

Maybe she'll run for Prez in 2016.

[MarkCharles]

4. She is already ahead and there hasn't even been a..

primary in Massachusetts for selection of a Dem candidate, (she's the presumptive winner of a primary).

But in polls, she's gaining already against the well-financed, (from banks and investment folks in NYC) Scotty Brown.

Brown has his supporters, but they are dwindling as the obvious look of either Gingrich or Romney as a Republican Presidential contender. Romney would not have won a second term in Mass, and has embarrassed himself so much in recent weeks. Mass voters know Romney is a fake, and will turn out to vote for Obama much as they did in 2008. Brown won the 2010 special election, largely because Mass voters didn't warm to the Atty Gen as a likable figure and her campaign lacked any real energy. By contrast, Warren is out there already greeting people at bus stops, train stations, etc. She's got virtually the same campaign machine already working for her in Mass that Obama had, and she's using the same cyber techniques his campaign did, emails, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Although Brown is the incumbent, he does want to be seen as a "nice guy" and has recently agreed with Warren to keep super PAC money out. In his two years so far in the U.S. Senate, he has done nothing substantial for the voters of Mass, only for the financial industry giants like Fidelity.

If Brown loses, (and it's likely he will), he's got a small Senate pension and a Mass legislator pension and could always run for Governor in 2014, or could go back to modelling for Cosmo.

[Fearless]

3. Can't wait to vote for her!

[Sera_Bellum]

5. I love her!

So eloquent, so honest, so real. Hope she has a double digit takedown of GQ Brown.