‘The best senator money can’t buy’ is the hero of rich liberal donors

12/3/2014

Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign committee has called her “the best senator money can’t buy.” Except the money absolutely loves her.

ElizabethWarren.com has unveiled a t-shirt for the Massachusetts Democrat that has the slogan in styled lettering on the back. It is, of course, available for the “small money” donation of at least $25.

Elizabeth Warren, the best senator money can’t buy, or something.

That’s your shot. Here’s your chaser from just last month, a story from POLITICO, “Elizabeth Warren gets rock-star reception at liberal donors confab:”

Elizabeth Warren insists she has no interest in running for president in 2016, but the rich liberals to whom she spoke Thursday afternoon seemed unwilling to take ‘no’ for an answer.

The Massachusetts senator got a rock stars’ welcome during a closed-door speech to major donors, one of whom interrupted her by yelling “Run, Liz, Run!”

The donor group’s name is Democracy Alliance, and “it has had an outsized influence in Democratic politics,” POLITICO wrote, including the use of its donors’ “massive bank accounts” to steer the party left on — oh, the irony — money in politics.

Reporter Ken Vogel noticed the possible contradiction in Warren’s priorities:

POLITICO caught up with her as she made her way to a car waiting outside. But she ignored a question about whether her appearance — a closed-door speech to major donors who write huge checks, sometimes anonymously, to influence the political process — conflicted with her public denunciations of the role of conservative big money in politics.

“Excuse me,” an aide said, blocking access to Warren as she slid into the front passenger seat.

The Washington Free Beacon, which has reported extensively on the group, has called it “the most powerful political operation you have never heard of.”

“The group, as one former member told the Washington Free Beacon, ‘is the brain trust of the progressive movement,’ ” an editor’s note on the organization states.

Even The New York Times has noted her prodigious ability to raise money “especially among liberal national networks.” MailOnline has called her fundraising list a “a who’s-who of Hollywood royalty.” And although she has railed against Wall Street and its campaign dollars, she’s found a way to tap Wall Street dollars from a source other than corporations, Kevin Williamson noted —lawyers.

Of the top 20 outside spending groups in her 2012 Senate race against Scott Brown, 15 were liberal-aligned, according to OpenSecrets.org.

All of this for “the senator money can’t buy.”

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