Elizabeth Warren Presents Herself to Labor Activists as Fighting for Middle Class

[jefferson_dem]

Warren Presents Herself to Labor Activists as Fighting for Middle Class
By Joshua Miller
Roll Call Staff
Sept. 5, 2011, 3:52 p.m.

BOSTON — Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren offered a preview of her likely Senate campaign stump speech Monday, presenting herself to hundreds of union officials, activists and local politicians at a Labor Day breakfast as a champion of the middle class.

"The middle class has been hacked at, chipped at and hammered for a generation," Warren said to a packed ballroom at the Park Plaza hotel. "We can't take it much longer."

Her pitch to the crowd of union faithfuls was that her life had been and would be devoted to continuing to stand up "to powerful interests" in defense of the middle class.

Warren, who was in charge of creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until August, told the crowd here at the Greater Boston Labor Council's annual breakfast that she is frustrated by a Washington that "wasn't working for us" and saw the America where children had a chance to do better than their parents slipping away

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[rurallib]

1. A breath of fresh air in an otherwise dismal labor scene this year

C'mon Mass - send Warren to Washington.

[jefferson_dem]

2. No doubt...

She's the closest thing to Wellstone I've seen.

We *need* her in the Senate.

[Mass]

3. Or any of the 6 other dems running for the nomination.

They are all worthy progressives. I hope we will get a good primary with the best person winning.

[Mass]

4. We'll send a democrat for the Senate. The one who will win the primary.