This is a photo that Elizabeth Warren took from the stage at one of her campaign volunteer meetings this week in Framingham, MA. This would be a huge gathering a few weeks before an election — never mind more than a year out. It also explains the Brown scare ads.
Mino
I have to hand it to her. After two years in Washington, she still seems to be enjoying herself. That’s resilience.
John S.
One thing I love about being a Democrat is the diversity. You look at most event photos, and it isn’t just a sea of white faces.
Napoleon
That looks like a dangerous group there.
flickeringlamp
It’s also worth pointing out that that’s a hug group… in Framingham. Not Cambridge. Not Northampton. If she can get a crew like that together in Framingham, then maybe central Mass. won’t be Brown Town this time.
Xenos
@John S.: Well, it is Framingham. There are some minorities in Framingham, but they are predominantly of Brazilian citizenship. Obama’s uncle got arrested there recently and he is not about to show up to volunteer for a political campaign, either.
CambridgeChuck
I was at that meeting (just out of the frame on the right). The buzz in the room was palpable: at last, a real progressive! Over 400 people organizing themselves as volunteers, more than a year before the election — and this was just the first of seven such meetings all across the Commonwealth! It really will be a grassroots effort: join in!
Bruce S
This is an awesome photo – I love that Warren took it. Her troops are going to unleash the fires of hell on Brown – a “nice” hellfire, but hellfire nonetheless…
Steve
She reminds me of Hillary in the way the abuse just doesn’t seem to faze her.
El Cid
The Mother of Madness!
aimai
Jeezus, every one of them looks like my Religious, right wing, sister in law from Medfield. I can not wait for someone to start making the t shirts. I want either:
I’m With the Matriarch for Mayhem (front)
People for the Election of Warren (back)
or
Matriarch of Mayhem (front)
Women for Warren (back)
JGabriel
mistermix:
Scare ads this far out from the election probably help Warren more than they hurt her. They give her more publicity while her name recognition is still only low-moderate, and make people wonder why Brown feels so threatened by her so early in the campaign.
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efroh
Seriously, if I lose my job, I am f-ing driving up there from VA and spending the rest of the year volunteering for her campaign. (Yes, I know, I know, Tim Kaine, but he just doesn’t do it for me. He had to be corralled into running by the Administration and I don’t think his heart is in it. I know Warren is running for the right reasons and for the little people, of which I am one.)
aimai
I should say that I’m signed up to go to the Boston meetup/venue which has yet to be announced. She’s wisely spending her time organizing in the Suburbs and in Boston. She’s also “headlining” a fundraiser for a fabulous grassroots group called Neighbor to Neighbor which has been doing yeoman service, year after year after year, helping low information, non voters, figure out what their issues are, register to vote,and organize in their own communites. They are totally locally driven and only supply organizers for the first few years until they can get local people to run all their own things. I think they got their start out in places like Lowell.
aimai
JPL
Has Brown been asked about OWS?
Cat Lady
W00t Framingham! Grew up there, lived there most of my life, and now live in the next town over. These are EXACTLY the people who will be putting her over the top. Framingham is America in microcosm – the town has millionaires and half way houses, and waves of immigrants came through and made the American dream. There was a big unionized GM plant that closed, a unionized Dennison manufacturing plant that closed, a Prime Computer plant that closed, and now a unionized Breyer’s ice cream plant that Unilever just closed to go to a “right-to-work
be exploited” state. Service and retail jobs are all that’s left there, and people want more. These are all MoM’s natural constituents, and she wants to work for them. Brown’s not getting re-elected, because he hasn’t done anything for them.Mark S.
This is why left wing populism will never work. People are dying to hear about job creators and how we have the highest corporate tax rates in the world. They don’t want to hear about the problems middle and working class families face, like unemployment and unaffordable health care.
Elizabeth Warren needs to read the NYT op-ed page. Bobo and Mustache have their fingers on the pulse of the nation; she could learn a thing or two.
beltane
@Cat Lady: “These are all MoM’s natural constituents”
We are all moms for MoM. I am truly grateful for the Republicans for giving Elizabeth Warren this absolutely wonderful nickname. This was the matriarch of all own-goals.
SiubhanDuinne
@flickeringlamp:
Are they all going to have a group hug?
Cat Lady
@efgoldman:
The Dennison plant is basically a welfare mall now run by SMOC, and there are some condos in the upper floors that I’ll bet are great inside, but the neighborhood is still rough, and the trains go past all day and night long. From it’s colonial past (Crispus Attucks was from Framingham) all the way through now, Framingham has assimilated so many generations of immigrants because of the commercial infrastructure, and the great schools which the tax base supported. I can see the effects of the businesses closing down, and the resentments against the Brazilians starting to surface like they once did against the Italians in the 50’s, the Puerto Ricans in the 60s and the Portuguese in the 70’s. There are two Italian surnamed brothers in town who harass and film Brazilians and then have a hate show on local cable, apparently unaware that Rizzoli ain’t exactly a Pilgrim name, either.
rikryah
good to see such enthusiasm
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Napoleon:
Clearly a mob.
PeakVT
Liz Warren and the Matriarchs of Mayhem. Coming this fall to a town near you.
danimal
God help us all if that mob is ever unleashed on the general public. Oh, the mayhem!
Scary Halloween pic from that matronly anarchist.
Xenos
@Cat Lady:
Most of the Brazilians I have met in Framingham are evangelicals – I wonder if that has something to do with it.
John S.
@Xenos:
I wasn’t snarking. I know Farmingham is like 90% white, but I see 4 non-white people in the first couple rows. That’s nice to see.
Cat Lady
@Xenos:
The brothers have a holocaust denial show too, so they’re equal opportunity haters. Jim Rizzoli ranted that his carpet cleaning business was suffering because the immigrants and Jews in Framingham were boycotting him. Self-awareness FAIL.
Corner Stone
@PeakVT:
Only if they do it in KISS outfits with EW on the axe.
Corner Stone
@aimai:
“I’m With the Matriarch for Mayhem (front)
People for the Election of Warren (back)
or
Matriarch of Mayhem (front)
Women for Warren (back)”
I’ll take 2 of each please.
TooManyJens
I have matriarchofmayhem.com (currently redirecting to elizabethwarren.com). I will happily turn it over to the Warren campaign or to supporters who want to do something with it.
p.a.
That big Republican money is in use against her even before she has won her primary tells us how frackin scared they are. I’m next door to Mass., but pay little attention to their internal politics. The Mass. Dem. Party has seemed, when I do pay attention, like a ‘good old boy’ network. Does Warren have any opponent who is the ‘system’ candidate of the Dem. machine?
Mnemosyne
Okay, now I can’t help wondering if Warren is a knitter, because that looks just like the pictures Stephanie Pearl McPhee (aka the Yarn Harlot and a knitting writer) takes during her book tours. Like this one in Pasadena. If you get, like, super-classified image enhancing software, I am one of the blurry faces standing next to the journals (the bright blue part of the wall). Assuming I’m not being blocked by a taller person, which happens quite often when you’re 5’2″.
All the cool people are knitters, you know. Or at least are willing to have their pictures taken holding your sock-in-progress.
Arclite
Holy shit, that is a lot of people…
Arclite
@Mnemosyne:
You got no time to knit when you’re laying the smackdown on Wall Street.
David Koch
This photo is gonna gall the Firebaggers, who trashed her all week.