Elizabeth Warren Wins The Support Of Two More Senators

[laughingliberal]

Two more Senate Democrats climbed aboard the Elizabeth Warren bandwagon on Friday, signing on to a statement circulated by Sen. Al Franken encouraging President Obama to nominate the Harvard professor to lead the nascent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an entity she first proposed and helped shepherd through Congress.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and the P Street Project have been urging their membership to flood Congress with calls of support for Warren. Franken's statement gives advocates something to organize around. The group is also calling on citizens to sign a petition backing her.

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have now gotten behind the effort. "Elizabeth Warren has proven that she is willing to stand up to Wall Street on behalf of consumers and is the logical choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," reads the statement they signed. "If appointed by President Obama, I would vote to confirm Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/elizabeth-warren-wins-the_n_681268.html

[still_one]

1. Dodd is against her, and I her mixed messages from the administration on her

There is no question in my mind that she would put the consumer first, which is why I am skeptical that she will get appointed

[backscatter712]

3. Dodd's such a bankster whore.

He's playing the "We don't have enough votes to confirm her (because I won't vote for her)" game.

[cascadiance]

4. We need to push up and pass Bennett's "congress to lobbyist ban bill" to take effect NOW!

So that we can SHUT DOWN this kind of of "bankster whoring" that Dodd's involved with. If we can stop him in his tracks now from his *obvious* future plans, perhaps we'll get different behavior from him for the rest of his term now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/04/bill-to-ban-members-of-co_n_561269.html

Though I'm guessing the banksters will still give him another "non-lobbying" job to work around this. Dodd should be looked at as a test case on what needs to be put in this bill to stop this kind of crap!

[ThomWV]

2. K&R in hopes others will see it in their mind to keep this good woman in the public eye