{"id":8481,"date":"2011-10-25T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2019-03-27T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:12:30","slug":"elizabeth-warren-has-embraced-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/25\/elizabeth-warren-has-embraced-occupy-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Has Embraced Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first heard an allusion to her supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on network news.\u00a0 I am trying to track down a more complete report of exactly what she said.<\/p>\n

For now, I will just use this Daily Kos post<\/strong><\/a> as a placeholder for more information to follow.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren has embraced OWS.\u00a0 In fact, she was fighting Wall Street long before it was cool.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\n Elizabeth Warren is running for office in the most high-profile race in the country not involving Barack Obama. It\u2019s a position that calls for some tact. So what does she think about the Occupy Wall Street protests that are roiling the country?<\/p>\n

\u201cI created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,\u201d she says. \u201cI support what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warren\u2019s boast isn\u2019t bluster: As a professor of commercial law at Harvard and the force behind Obama\u2019s consumer-protection bureau, Warren has been one of the most articulate voices challenging the excesses of Wall Street.<\/p>\n

No one else has Warren\u2019s gift to send the right into a sputtering frenzy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The story Warren Takes Credit for Occupy Wall Street<\/a><\/strong> comes tantalizingly close to explaining the origins of her remarks.  This comes from The Daily Beast<\/em> blog which is part of Newsweek<\/em>.  Upon further research I find that this post on The Daily Beast<\/em> is the source of all the news stories and the quote.<\/p>\n
\nThe Harvard professor has spooked the right. As she begins her high-profile Senate campaign against GOP star Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the consumer advocate tells Samuel P. Jacobs how she created ‘much of the intellectual foundation’ for the Occupy Wall Street movement. She also talks about her past life as a Republican and the challenges of being a woman on the campaign trail\u2014and says she’s no ‘guileless Marxist.’\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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For those of you who don’t know much about Elizabeth Warren, below is a video that gives some credence to her claims.  For the rest of us, we already know what makes her claims credible.<\/p>\n
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