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Governor Deval Patrick defends Elizabeth Warren in flap over Native American heritage

By Michael Levenson

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 31, 2012

Governor Deval Patrick spent Thursday morning in full politicking mode, attacking Mitt Romney’s tenure as Massachusetts governor and defending Senate Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren from critics who say she misrepresented herself as a minority to advance her academic career. On his monthly radio show on WTKK-FM, Patrick, who endorsed Warren on Wednesday, called the controversy over Warren’s professed Native American heritage a distraction from what should be a more substantive debate between Warren and her Republican opponent, Senator Scott Brown.

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