Elizabeth Warren Endorsed By Russ Feingold

[ProSense]

Amanda Terkel

Elizabeth Warren Endorsed By Russ Feingold

WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Warren's campaign for U.S. Senate received a major endorsement on Tuesday, picking up the support of former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold. It's Feingold's first Senate endorsement of the 2012 election season and a clear indication that Warren's race will be a top priority for progressives around the country.

In an email scheduled to be sent Tuesday morning, and provided to The Huffington Post by Feingold's staff, Feingold calls support for Warren's campaign "an absolutely crucial part of our fight against the nasty influence of corporate money in politics."

"Elizabeth has fought for years to rein in Wall Street and protect the middle class," writes Feingold in the email to backers of Progressives United, his political action committee.

"In 2005, she stood up against the Wall Street wish list of a bankruptcy bill -- a huge corporate giveaway I opposed in the Senate. And after the big banks drove us into a recession, Elizabeth proposed a new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and then fought tirelessly to make sure the Obama administration created it. So when Elizabeth announced her decision to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts this month, to keep fighting for middle class families on Capitol Hill, I couldn't have been happier."

more

[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

[vroomvroom]

2. Two REAL Democrats! Love them Both! Now if we can just have more.

[Mass]

3. And? There are 7 dems and I have still not decided whom to support

Nice for Feingold, but I will at least wait to see one debate before deciding.

May be Russ Feingold can tell us what is wrong with Massie or Conroy (or any of the other 4)

[tallahasseedem]

4. It's not his job to tell you...

what's wrong with the others. That's why it's called an endorsement.

[Mass]

7. This is why endorsements are useless.

[cascadiance]

5. Governor Feingold/Senator Warren for president in 2016!!!

[Mass]

6. Not for me. We need a senator. If she wins, I hope she commits for at least a full term.

[cascadiance]

8. If she's his VP, she certainly could be there for four years...

and if he didn't get elected, she still could be there... After all, we did unfortunately have Liebermann who stayed in as senator when Gore wasn't elected (er had his election nullified by SCOTUS...).

Without many progressives in office, we need to make sure that the ones that get in soon that are doing the best job have the shot at moving up the ladder, so that we can help win back these bodies of power. I do agree that if she does go on a presidential run then, we should make sure that we have a decent progressive ready in line to fill her shoes in the Senate.

[Mass]

9. Well, may be she can start winning the primary and beating Brown.

Because, if she does not do that, the question is moot.