Elizabeth Warren Cements Labor Ties

(Source: Marie Szaniszlo Boston Herald (MCT) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren yesterday raised the level of attack on GOP rival U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, drawing cheers as she blasted Brown for portraying himself as an everyman while he voted to block President Obama’s nominee to the National Labor Relations Board and voted against the president’s jobs bill.

“I don’t care what kind of truck he drives or what kind of barn coat he wears,” Warren told union members and supporters at the Greater Boston Labor Council Labor Day breakfast. “I care about how he votes.”

Brown has cast himself as a moderate in an effort to appeal to blue-state Massachusetts voters and his campaignfeaturing him driving a truck and wearing a barn coathelped appeal to independents and propel him to an upset victory over Attorney General Martha Coakley in a special election to complete the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s term.

But Warren, who will introduce former President Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., tomorrow, called Brown a “guy who really let us down.”

“I’m out there, working my heart out, and when I go to Washington, I promise I’ll have your back. … Are you ready to send Scott Brown and his pickup truck back to Wrentham?” she said to loud applause.

In a statement yesterday, Brown’s press secretary fired back, bringing up Warren’s work on behalf of Travelers, the nation’s largest insurer, which was fighting to gain permanent immunity from asbestos-related lawsuits.

But her spokeswoman defended Warren’s actions, saying she worked to try to ensure that asbestos victims were compensated, and blastsed Brown for “another distorted attack … to distract attention from his record of taking care of big corporations and big Wall Street banks, voting for tax breaks for millionaires and big subsidies for big oil companies.”

“The Republican agenda makes the rich richer and the powerful more powerful,” Warren said. “I want to go to Washington to fight for the things (Kennedy) fought for.”

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Source: Marie Szaniszlo Boston Herald (MCT)

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