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Q&A: What Would You Ask Elizabeth Warren?

With a live Q&A chat coming up on Friday, Patch wants to know: What would you ask Elizabeth Warren?

 

If you could ask Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren a question, what would it be?

Elizabeth Warren will be joining us live on Friday, July 13, at 1:15 p.m., providing an opportunity for you to ask her about where she stands on a particular issue or the upcoming election. 

Wondering about her stance on the national debt? What about healthcare? Education?

Leave your questions for Elizabeth Warren in the comments to have them considered for the live Q&A session. 

To join Friday's chat, head on over to our homepage from 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday.

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Mr White

9:42 am on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Guaranteed, there will not be one question allowed about her so-called Indian heritage, minority status in getting hired, her "intellectual foundation" of OWS, massive Wall Street/Hollywood/out-of-state fundraising support or the perjured cookbook.
Can't wait for the "hammering" to begin.

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John

10:00 am on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

I agree with 99% of your postings Mr White, but please stop making the Warren Patch Q&A something out of the ordinary. Patch sterilizes/censors all of their political Q&A's, they will do the same for Brown. Your hatred for all that is Democrat comes shining through, we get it.

Dave Miskinis

12:10 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

what happened to the Barry comments?? More censorship? I did not find them offensive.

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John

12:26 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Those Barry comments are actually on a different Elizabeth Warren thread. Mr White blogged the same thing on both threads. No censorship, this time anyway.

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Barry

1:01 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Hey, Mr. White: you are a one-trick pony, aren't you? We get it, you don't like Warren. Is it because she's a Dem? Or is it because she's a woman? Are you just a bit afraid of a strong, intelligent woman? Threatens your masculinity, does it? You know you can't win an argument on the issues, so you raise these ridiculous accusations again and again and again. No reason to keep wasting bandwidth posting the same old crap, Mr. White.

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Nancy

3:22 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Hey Barry: are you saying that a candidates integrity is not an issue? Those are not accusations they are facts.

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Barry

7:51 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Nancy you are just plain wrong - Mr. White does not cite any facts - he just makes accusations. To cite just one example: Charles Fried, a Harvard Law School professor, a conservative who served as Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, and who was instrumental in recruiting Warren to HLS, has unequivocally stated that her ethnic background played no role whatsoever in HLS's consideration and hiring of Warren. But, let's be honest here, neither you nor Mr. White are really interested in facts - you are only interested in hurling mud at a candidate you don't like.

Liawatha

8:09 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Do you regret saying ‘I created much on the intellectual foundation for what they do.’ ” about the Occupy folks?

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Nancy

8:19 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Barry do you mean the same Charles Fried who contributed to Warrens campaign? Of course he is going to say that, its called playing the game. If you are naive enough to believe that she was hired on merit than I feel bad for you. She is a liar and a hypocrite, so I will repeat my prior question to you. Is a candidates integrity an issue?

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Barry

8:54 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Nancy, he gave $250 to her campaign, the way colleagues often support one another, even if they don't agree with their politics. But perhaps you have no colleagues, Nancy. It's amazing that you won't even believe a Reagan appointee. That's how far gone you right-wingers are. Out of the mainstream. Out of this world. And I doubt you know anything about Harvard Law School or its hiring process. I doubt you even know where Harvard Law School is. Can you even spell it?

Nancy

9:13 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Barry you are hiding from the question. I don't care about Harvard Law School. I care about the integrity of candidates. Warren lied about her heritage, that is a fact that not even she can prove false. In my opinion it's she did it to advance her career. Does integrity mean anything to progressive like yourself?

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Barry

9:43 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

You are the one lying. Repeatedly. But the facts don't seem to concern you, do they? Integrity means a lot to me; that's why I'm bothering to waste my time refuting your scurriolous and completely unfounded accusations. Obviously integrity means nothing to you, Nancy.

If you care to hear the facts, which you probably don't, please continue reading: Warren simply repeated what she had been told by her parents and grandparents about her ancestry. That is what we all do, when we relate information that is passed onto us by our family. Who as a teenager or young adult, particularly at that time before the Internet, would be able to do any independent research on their ancestry?

There is absolutely NO evidence anywhere that any claims about her heritage affected in any way any part of her career. She won a debate scholarship to George Washington University, then transferred to the University of Houston when she got married; she got her JD at Rutgers Law School, practiced law on her own, then taught at Rutgers, Houston, Michigan, Texas, Penn and finally HLS. as a lawyer. She is a brilliant woman. Her academic career speaks for itself. Perhaps you are jealous becuase your education is so lacking? I don't know.

Your continuing efforts to defame her and the institutions for which she worked prove a lot more about you than they do her or those institutions.

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Nancy

11:50 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Barry its not like she is claiming to be Irish. She is claiming to be part of a minority group that gets certain benefits in today's world. There is no proof that her heritage claims did not affect her career, all you stated was someones opinion. She is clearly an intelligent person but she was not smart enough to get her DNA tested before she made such claims. The bottom line is she claimed to be something that she cannot prove

Liawatha

8:23 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Imagine if Romney claimed Mexican heritage. With a parent being born in Mexico, he is more Mexican then Prof. Warren is Native American.

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Ellen G

3:43 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

In my honest opinion, Elizabeth Warren in a woman of exceedingly high intergrity and high intellect. I believe she will represent the Commonwealth of Massachsuetts in the United States Senate much better than the Mr. Brown. She cares for the ordinary individual and is not in the pocket of bug business. I would not enter this discussion, except that Mr. Brown Mr. Brown is not the independant thinker he presented himself to the voters of Massachusetts in the special election. He has repeatedly proven he cares for big business.

It is a sad state of affairs, that the only negatives one can state about Ms. Warren is family history. I am sure Nancy and Mr. White have family anectdotes that they believe to be truthful and if were to be scrutinized in this day and age of the internet would be found to be false.

Please let us all live by the proverb - Those wh live in glass houses should not throw stones!!!

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Concerned Citizen

5:42 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

Ellen,

You do realize that Ms. Warren makes a salary of over $400,000 to teach at Harvard and lives in a 5 million dollar home on Brattle Street in Cambridge. That make her the dreaded %1 that you are supposed to hate. I don't see how her wealth and privilege make her "care for the ordinary individual". Sure she grew up poor. So did I and everyone else that I know. The majority of people in her age group all lived the same experience. Father working a menial job, stay at home mom, one car, lots of kids, no money. Her experience is not unique.

There are MANY negatives about Ms. Warren, but I will address the Native American topic. When it was discovered that she was not a minority as she had previously claimed, a person with high integrity would reply "OH My. I am so sorry that I mislead people. I really thougth that I was a Native American, but now I see that I am not. I hope you can forgive me." Simply, honest, direct and to the point. Instead, she told fantastic tales about her high cheek bones, things her parents said, and feeling the need to defend her family. Why all of the drama? She never once appologized and admitted that she was wrong. She turned a small issue into a big issue. To me, that means that she is lying/hiding something.

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Mr White

6:07 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

@ EG
Not only does Ms Warren not care about the ordinary individual she cares even less about the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
She is an Obama puppet and Democrat pawn hoping to help shift the balance of power in the Senate.
It is exactly her lack of integrity that I look to highlight. I could care less about her heritage, who supports her financially or movements she starts. If she does not have the testicular fortitude to correct & apologize for misrepresentations or acknowledge her true supporters and convictions than how can anyone believe anything she says?

I learned long ago that anyone who starts off with "In my honest opinion" or "Let me be honest with you" is about to spew a bunch of BS because it's either you've been lying up to that point or your lying now but either way your word means nothing.

Barry

6:38 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

Mr. White, it seems nobody knows more about BS than you do, since you spend so much time shoveling it out all over the Patch. Why don't you find a nice hobby for yourself, like counting your few brain cells?

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Mr White

7:00 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

@Barack

Ouch, that hurts...

Joe Veno

7:21 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

Mr. White and Nancy why do you even post to this fool Barry? This fool Barry dosen't have the brains to come in out of the rain.

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peter lucci

9:09 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

Funny, while reading Mr. White's comments above (did my best Joe the Fraud copy & paste job, see below) all I could think of was Joe the Fraud and his lack of credibilty, Joe and Liz appartently have a lot in common (heritage issues aside of course).

"It is exactly her lack of integrity that I look to highlight. I could care less about her heritage, who supports her financially or movements she starts. If she does not have the testicular fortitude to correct & apologize for misrepresentations or acknowledge her true supporters and convictions than how can anyone believe anything she says? "

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Joe Veno

9:18 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

peter the coward. If you only knew how stupid you sound. Every time you post about me moron I will post about you. what is the matter moron are you coming unglued?

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peter lucci

9:38 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012

Very original of you, Joe the Fraud. You should probably refrain from calling yourself a moron, it really does continue to expose you for the Fraud that you truly are.

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