{"id":185199,"date":"2011-09-14T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/14\/elizabeth-warren-announces-run-for-massachusetts-senate\/"},"modified":"2011-09-14T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T00:47:00","slug":"elizabeth-warren-announces-run-for-massachusetts-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/14\/elizabeth-warren-announces-run-for-massachusetts-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Announces Run for Massachusetts Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2011\/09\/14\/warren_launches_us_senate_campaign_with_mass_tour\/\">officially declared her run for the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I understand why she feels the need to run, but I am pessimistic.<\/p>\n<p>First, whatever you say about Republican Scott Brown, he is a very good campaigner, second, the Dems are rooting for her to lose almost as much as the Republicans are, because they can then argue that people don&#8217;t want real consumer protections.<\/p>\n<p>And if she wins, she ends up in the Senate, where she would enter a seniority driven and hidebound old boys club that would do their level best to keep her away from any meaningful voice on finance.<\/p>\n<p>I wish her luck, but it&#8217;s a lose-lose for <strike>her<\/strike> us.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least she&#8217;s better than Brown, who&#8217;s a smarmy right wing ratf%$#.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign web page is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethwarren.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren has officially declared her run for the Senate. I understand why she feels the need to run, but I am pessimistic. First, whatever you say about Republican Scott Brown, he is a very good campaigner, second, the Dems are rooting for her to lose almost as much as the Republicans are, because they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}