Elizabeth Warren raised a whopping $42 million for her Senate race — more than any other congressional candidate in the country. Yet the noted scholar on the root causes of debt and bankruptcy made a surprising admission on Wednesday: she needs a little help paying her bills.
In an e-mail to supporters, the senator-elect from Massachusetts revealed that her campaign is in debt and asked for donations to help her out of the hole. Though she did not disclose the sum in her e-mail, a campaign official said Warren owes $400,000.
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This a good sign...
Do you refuse to use verbs 'cause they cost too much?
just one more trip to her friends in Hollywood and the debt will be taken care of.. Let's move on... Any more stories about her pets dying?
Still waiting for the story about Brownie's truck dying. Any time now . . .
A Democrat outspending his or her means. That's news? A surplus would have been news. I don't think her Hollywood friends will bail her out. They don't even pay their "fare share" in California.
She can just ask Obama for a federal government BAILOUT. ...Just like California will ask for, Illinois, New York, and now Deval wants one. And a now a Detroit city councillor is asking for "Payback" for Detroit's votes.
don't worry Warren will just borrow the money - just like she will in the US Senate - for "investments=spending" for our future.
socialism is great until you run out of other people money - Thatcher
A shame on 2 counts: that it should cost almost $43 MILLION to run for US Senate and that the person who ran on "making the banks and Wall Street manage their fiscal affairs better" could not manage her campaign budget.
open your checkbooks everyone, Elizabeth needs your money
I have a feeling her election, deficit or not, means opening our checkbooks. Which, by the way, will cost more to use when she gets her fingers into banking legislation.
If this isn't the ultimate in chutspah! She and dear husbnd are pulling in somewherenear a $1.M from Harvard. If you can't afford to pay your way with that kind of income, shut up, sit down and DON'T run for public office.
What colossal nerve!
Oh, so you're one of those people who believe that only rich folks should run for office?
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Another example of unaccountable spending by a politican.It Illustrates the lack of fiscal responsibility by the individual and their associates. So goes the elected offical so goes the Government. Its all right to spend what you do not have and then turn around and ask for help from those you are going to impose more taxes on to support a government with the practice of "its my right to tax and spend" . There is ZERO financial resonsibility by this current government, and seems there is no end to the current actions.
Ah, the season of generosity of spirit has come to the Globe comment boards . . .
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Having participated as a volunteer in the successful campaign to elect Senator Warren, and having seen firsthand that it was a hastily assembled team that worked very hard with a lot of decentralized initiative, I am impressed at the precise management that allowed matching outgo so closely to income, within less than 1%. To state the obvious, it shows much more skill to finish victorious with a little bit of fund-raising to do, than to finish as a loser with money in the bank. Personally, my first response to reading this article was to make an additional campaign contribution, which was easy to do knowing that it went for a successful campaign.
I heard that she "stiffed" some senior citizens at a lunch meeting during her campaign. Seems she walked out and left the oldies to pay for it. I heard it 'third party' but now I can understand why it might be true. Granted the story might be a Republican plant.... but makes you wonder now?