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Law professor Elizabeth Warren of Cambridge is expected to be the Democratic nominee to face Sen. Scott Brown, R, in the fall election. She visited Ula Cafe on Tuesday to speak with local people hurt by the financial crisis.
Law professor and bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren sought to highlight her credentials as a consumer watchdog in a visit to Jamaica Plain on Tuesday. The Cambridge Democrat is the presumptive nominee to face Sen. Scott Brown, R, in the fall. She met at bustling Ula Cafe with people facing foreclosure who are being helped by the JP nonprofit City Life/Vida Urbana. "Families across this Commonwealth have been hammered in the financial crisis," Warren said in remarks to the press after the event. "It's important to remember that this crisis started one lousy mortgage at a time." JP's Heather Gordon, whose Mendell Way home has been in foreclosure since 2008, was among those who told Warren their stories. About 13 people sat at tables in the …
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Thousands of senior citizens are expected to march in the streets Wednesday.
Senior citizens are expected to hold a protest rally at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre Wednesday morning and then march by the offices of Senators John Kerry (D) and Scott Brown (R) in what is promised to be a massive rally to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The protest is being held as a congressional “super-committee” is putting together a proposal to reduce the federal deficit. Kerry is on that committee. Seniors will board buses in several communities in and around Boston for the rally at 270 Tremont Street that is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. Buses are expected to transport seniors from Jamaica Plain, Cambridge, Dorchester, Malden, Worcester, and West Roxbury, according to Jason A. Stephany, …
Peter
2:22 pm on Thursday, March 15, 2012
I was seriously considering voting for Warren but she meets with hand picked individuals and no one knows where or when she is going to show up. I need someone who is right out front. Theoretically she is good on paper but at this point I'm leaning toward Scot Brown.   more ›