Marathon Pundit: Massachusetts Senate: Warren trying to have it both ways on Occupy Wall Street

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Massachusetts Senate: Warren trying to have it both ways on Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Chicago protest sign,
Oct. 22, 2011

As the increasingly unpopular Occupy movement continues wreak havoc, Massachusetts Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is trying to have it both ways with them.

From the Boston Herald:

U.S. Senate hopeful and Harvard Law prof Elizabeth Warren, who has claimed she laid the "intellectual foundation" for the Occupy Wall Street movement, is jilting the anti-corporate proteges in her own Ivy League yard, refusing to sign a petition in support of Occupy Harvard.

Warren, who declined to speak to the Herald, is focused on her campaign, said spokesman Kyle Sullivan.

"Elizabeth hasn't signed the petition, but she's been standing up to Wall Street and the big banks for years and that's what she'll do in the Senate," said Sullivan in a statement. "People are frustrated and protesting for change, Elizabeth understands that."

The move distances Warren from an organization that is losing public support, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released yesterday. It also has made her a target of the Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS political organization, which unleashed a negative ad last week blasting her for supporting radicals over jobs. Warren backed off her "intellectual foundation" claim a day after making it, saying she doesn’t support all Occupy actions but stressing that she's been fighting Wall Street for years. But Warren supports the movement so long as they follow the law, Sullivan said.