Vote for Warren, who has never disappointed, as choice for president in upcoming primary
I’ve been a supporter of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren since she first ran for Senate in 2011. I had seen her testify before a Congressional committee about her proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which eventually passed Congress. And when Republican senators refused to approve her to head the agency, she ran for Senate from Massachusetts and won (over a popular Republican senator).
When she started running for the Senate seat, we wanted to hold a “time” for her in our living room, which can hold 40 to 50 people. But the crowd coming to hear her got so large that we had to move it into our yard. When she arrived (on time), almost 200 people were waiting to hear her. And we weren’t disappointed.
Before I agreed to hold the event, I asked a Harvard Law professor neighbor about her, since Warren was also a professor at Harvard Law. He said that he had been on her hiring committee in the 1990s and they were thrilled to get her – and haven’t ever been disappointed. This man is not given to effusive praise, so the assessment carried a lot of weight with me.
Warren’s law specialty is bankruptcy and finance. This expertise guides her questioning of those testifying before Congressional committees, letting her point out “softness” in their responses.
She has thought deeply about people’s needs and has made plans to address many of them: student loans, immigration, health care, financial institutions that have taken advantage of ordinary people, well-heeled corporations and their lobbyists who can spend and spend and influence Congress to their advantage. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has already returned 12 billion dollars to people defrauded or mistreated by financial institutions, such as having their homes repossessed illegally.
An ace debater in school and persistent in pushing for her ideas, she won’t let Senate head Mitch McConnell push her around. The bully in the White House won’t get much traction with her.
She would be a president we could all be proud of. And, as a woman, I would love to see her be the first woman President.
You will be voting soon, if you haven’t already. Please consider U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Sara Mae Berman, Inman Square
Senator Warren has disappointed me on foreign policy and military expenditures, over and over again. Where she could have been a leader opposing US complicity in the war in Yemen, the US support of the illegal and immoral occupation of Palestine, US support for Saudi Arabia, the US silence in the persecution of Muslims in India, our sanctions and embargoes which kill thousands of innocent civilians, the bloated US military budget etc. etc. she has not been a leader, and often she has not even followed the leadership of Senator Sanders on these issues. We need strong, courageous moral leadership on foreign policy, nuclear, military, antiwar issues, and on many of these issues Senator Warren has been a disappointment.
It is not surprising that Sara Mae Berman said nothing about foreign policy an area where Senator Warren has been a disappointment!