NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren will be visiting the city this Friday, Feb. 17, at 6:30 at the Eagle's Hall on Curran Highway.
This is her first venture this far west and north in the state since she began her "listening tour" last fall before announcing a run for the Democratic nomination. Local Democrats and others have packed Warren's past stops in the area.
Warren's Western Mass field organizer Greg Maynard had promised late last month that the Harvard professor and creator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (designed ride herd on Wall Street) would be in the North Berkshires in a matter of weeks.
"We are working very hard to make sure she visits the whole of Berkshire County," Maynard had told a gathering of the Democrat City Committee. "We're going to get the margin of victory out here."
Warren has visited Sen. Benjamin B. Downing's Western Mass district nine times and Pittsfield twice, once during her listening tour. Of the 48 towns in his district, 47 had voted for North Adams native Martha Coakley in the last election. "We've got to straighten out Otis," Maynard said to laughter.
Otis was the only Berkshire town to support Republican Scott Brown in his win for the seat of the late Ted Kennedy. Brown decisively defeated Coakley in the special election in 2010 to complete the final two year of the term.
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"We are working very hard to make sure she visits the whole of Berkshire County." Wow, what a bunch of BS from Greg Maynard who lives in Chelsmford.
Not only has Warren not visited any Berkshire County communities except Pittsfield (and tomorrow North Adams) but she can't even hire a local field organizer who knows the turf, she has to employ somebody from Middlesex County. Lame.
Editor: She's visiting here, so what's your beef? I Agree (11) - I Disagree (0)
Oh, she deigns to listen the "hicks" of North Adams! And when most of her campaign cash is coming out of California.
Oh, and she isn't part of the 1%, in case you're wondering. Harvard only pays her over $400K.
Editor: We're not hicks, thank you very much. Also don't understand the moaning about money. Both Sen. Brown and Ms. Warren came from modest means and worked hard to get where they are. Shouldn't we be admiring both? Or are you just a troll? I Agree (16) - I Disagree (3)
No, editor, I am not a troll, but thank you for asking.
First, my use of the word "hick" is following the candidates own example. She claimed that she was "the hick's candidate." This was some weeks ago and I believe that I read the article in the Globe.
Yes, they both came from modest means and are doing well, and yes that is fantastic and something to aspire to. My second comment was also just a spin on something that the candidate said. When asked about her own place in this post-Occupy world she claimed that she was NOT part of the 1%, but only because she does not have a large stock portfolio. I recall that was also a Globe article, but a later one.
The GOP is extremely scared of Ms. Warren for many reasons. You can tell when they have to pull out-of-context quotes that Limbaugh and Hannity ranted about. And their problem with her only visiting the county twice since her announcement is especially charming considering that Mitt Romney NEVER visited Berkshire County as Governor or as a candidate.
Warren is probably the toughest Democrat I've seen come along in a very long time. They should be scared.
Editor: In Gov. Romney's defense, he did visit Pittsfield. But he never went to North Adams. I Agree (0) - I Disagree (0)
I can't wait to hear Elizabeth Warren. I think she is a HERO for speaking up for the "regular folk." Republicans, Brown included, are obstructionists with no interests other than their own and their 1% buddies. Please Massachusetts, do the right thing. As a lifelong resident and lover of all things liberal (=government that provides for people in need), I wholeheartedly support Warren. SHE ROCKS!
Elizabeth Warren will not debate. She was a champion debater in High School and went to college on a debate scholorship, she even skipped a grade. When she was 21 in 1970 she registered to vote as a pro Vietnam War Republican. While she was to smart to want to put on dance dresses she had no problem with making her less intelligent male contemporaries put on military uniforms and head off to fight and die in Vietnam in pursuit of Nixon's honorable peace... what he morphed the Johnson's boondoggle into. Betty Warren is full of these kind of shortfalls and with me, John Zelazo, in the race it is just pure BS to think that she is the best choice. She is just woman and connected, I am the real deal.
Elizabeth Warren is a member of the 1%. Anyone who makes $300,000 or more falls into that catagory; although liberals would love for you to think that the 1% are only people who work on wall street and make $1 million a year.
Pretty obvious she likes capitalism when it works to her benefit. Especially when cash is pouring in to her coffers from out of state billionaires like George Soros and Warren Buffett.
We need a change in mentality in Washington, not another tax and spend liberal academic.
Elizabeth Warren thinks capitalism is great. However, she, and most of America, understand that supply side economics that only rewards the already wealthy is the true road to serfdom.
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