As published in the Eagle Tribune on 05/11/12
In a recent front page story, the Sunday Eagle Tribune missed an opportunity to introduce its readers to Elizabeth Warren, candidate for the US Senate. The story could have highlighted her challenges of growing up in a struggling middle class family and the family values she learned that helped shape her character. The story could have detailed her understanding of the value of hard work at an early age and the economic pressures facing middle class families. You could have told your readers about her getting a university degree, and raising a family and going to law school. Your readers would then have understood that that she started off in life in difficult economic circumstances, but also with the hope and promise of aspiring to greatness in America.
In a recent front page story, the Sunday Eagle Tribune missed an opportunity to introduce its readers to Elizabeth Warren, candidate for the US Senate. The story could have highlighted her challenges of growing up in a struggling middle class family and the family values she learned that helped shape her character. The story could have detailed her understanding of the value of hard work at an early age and the economic pressures facing middle class families. You could have told your readers about her getting a university degree, and raising a family and going to law school. Your readers would then have understood that that she started off in life in difficult economic circumstances, but also with the hope and promise of aspiring to greatness in America.
Instead, you
provided your readers with nearly a full page about the intricacies of how
Native American ethnicity is established in America.
I met Elizabeth
Warren last summer and had the opportunity to discuss with her the major economic issues confronting
the US today. Believe
me, she is the real deal. She is on our
side.
Elizabeth has been
a law professor for nearly 20 years and has written nine books, including two
national best-sellers, and more than a hundred articles. Elizabeth served as Chair of the Congressional
Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Her independent
and tireless efforts helped protect taxpayers, held Wall Street accountable, and
provided tough oversight of both the Bush and Obama Administrations. She was named Bostonian of the Year in 2009
for her oversight efforts.
She had the
political courage to take on the congressmen and senators who could care less
about the middle class and served as the primary driving force to
create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—a helping hand to many Americans
who have been impacted by predatory
lenders and confusing banking policies.
Over the
past several weeks, her republican opponent has claimed to be a political
moderate. But here is how he voted: NO to a jobs bill, NO to keeping student
loan interest rates low, NO to eliminating tax breaks for the oil industry, and
NO to requiring high income individuals to pay their fair share of taxes. Does
that sound like a moderate to you?
Elizabeth
Warren remembers the struggles of the middle class—she lived through them. As
Senator, she will be there to watch your back, to stand up to the
congressmen and senators who do the
bidding of corporate lobbyists, and to bring together a coalition of her senate
colleagues to find ways to create new jobs and help rebuild the middle class one
dream at a time.
Actions
speak louder than words. Elizabeth Warren
is the real deal.
John F.
Zipeto
Andover, MA
