if you're in the 99%, you should be following massachusetts senatorial candidate,
elizabeth warren. you might know her from
this quote that went viral all over the internet a couple months back. she's a fascinating and brilliant lady, and the more you know about her, the better. nymag profiles her in their latest issue:
“Our job is to let Elizabeth be Elizabeth,” says Doug Rubin, “and to build a campaign around her.” A former top adviser to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, Rubin is now Warren’s chief political strategist. When I met him recently at his Boston office, copies of The Tipping Point, Moneyball, and The Art of War were stacked on his desk, while Scott Brown’s memoir Against All Odds sat on the bookshelf. Rubin has worked in state politics for two decades, but the first time he ever spoke to Warren was this past summer, when she called him on a Sunday afternoon to pick his brain about a potential Senate race. “Normally when I talk to people who are thinking about running for office, it’s all logistics: How much money am I going to have to raise? How much time will I have to be out on the trail?” he says. “But she spent the first half-hour talking about why she wanted to do it, the issues she cared about. I was very impressed by that.” (via)
bonus links:
her simple breakdown of the 2008 economic collapse on the daily show
an hour-long lecture on the 30-year erosion of the middle class from earlier this year
