Elizabeth Warren Officially Disavows 'Ready For Warren' PAC

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By DANIEL STRAUSS Published AUGUST 22, 2014, 3:19 PM EDT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) lawyer has sent a "formal disavowal" to the Federal Elections Commission on Ready for Warren —the group that aims to nudge Warren to run for president in 2016.

"This letter serves as a formal disavowal of the organization and its activity," Mark Elias, Warren's attorney wrote in the letter, according to The Boston Globe. "The senator has not, and does not, explicitly or implicitly, authorize, endorse, or otherwise approve of the organization's activities."

Later in the letter Elias stresses that "Senator Warren has publicly announced that she is not running for president in 2016." Ready for Warren is supposed to be an analogous group to Ready for Hillary, which as its name suggests, aims to lay the groundwork for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016.

"We've all been clear since we launched our campaign that Senator Warren isn't associated with our group, and we aren't associated with the Senator -- I don't think there's anything new in this letter," Erica Sagrans, the campaign manager for Ready for Warren, said in a statement to TPM. Sagrans continued:

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/elizabeth-warren-disavowal-ready-for-warren

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Well, that is the end of any talk of her running

which is a shame given what we will be stuck with.

[Stellar]

2. I hope I don't over sleep that day.

Bernie Sanders will be 73 yrs old next month. I had thought about him but, if Obama has aged 15 yrs since he's been in office this job may kill Bernie.

I may have to vote for Hillary....

[FrodosPet]

4. "Senator Warren has publicly announced that she is not running for president in 2016."

That is current tense, not future.

Unless and until she says she "will not", the door is still open.

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. still desperate are we?

that DOOR has BEEN closed...

she obviously doesn't want the job.....

[Plucketeer]

11. Yeah...

and just LOOK at all the promises Mr Peace Prize vocalized when he WAS seeking the office. It's obvious there's some truth-stretching involved when trying for the White House. I'd wager, even to the point of saying one DIDN'T want the job as a strategy. Maybe she's wary that her constituents would look unfavorably upon her if she were vying to pull out on them. It's a L O N G trail til the 2016 showdown.

[gcomeau]

10. Oh just face reality already. -eom

[Kelvin Mace]

35. Right, so that would mean I should keep

2024 open on my calendar.

[Laelth]

38. I wouldn't be so certain.

I think she's still keeping her options open. What would be the point in disavowing this group if she were not keeping her options open?



-Laelth

[Kelvin Mace]

47. Please, tell me you are being sarcastic

[cosmicone]

3. Good for her.

She had no chance in the general election anyway.

But .. she would have won MA, CA, OR and VT for sure.

[Laelth]

40. No chance in the general election?

Ah, ye of little faith (in both liberalism and the Democratic Party).

-Laelth

[cosmicone]

43. Extreme liberals thinking an extreme liberal will win

the general election is identical to extreme teabaggers thinking the current republican party loses because they are not conservative enough.

For decades, middle of the road has elected presidents except in 1980 and 2008 when crises determined the outcome. Even President Obama moved to the center (to our chagrin) after 2008 in order to win in 2012. President Obama would have lost if he had turned extreme liberal.

The electorate does NOT favor extremes in either direction.

PS: I am a big fan of Senator Warren and did my two cents to help get her elected to the senate and will continue to support her. She just cannot win the general election in my opinion and a democrat has to win this time to control the supreme court. Therefore, we must rally behind the most electable candidate we have - Hillary Clinton.

[Laelth]

44. I think the United States is more liberal than you think it is.

I also think we could run Daffy Duck for President in 2016 and win. That's what the demographic trends suggest, in any event.

I am sick of "running to the center," and I have said so on many occasions.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Laelth/41

-Laelth

[cosmicone]

45. Demographic trends don't help much in the winner-take-all

electoral college system. The trends will help in the congressional elections though.

[Laelth]

46. Absent a new Ronald Reagan emerging on the right ...

... I think we keep the White House in 2016, but we will see what we see. A lot can change in that time.

-Laelth

[Ash_F]

48. She has been right in line with Americans on every opinion she expressed

Since when is the majority of America "extreme liberal"?

Just goes to show how effective TV brainwashing can be. It's not called the idiot box for nothing.

[winter is coming]

49. Which positions do you believe Warren has that are too extreme? n/t

[wordpix]

52. Warren is extreme b/c she wants consumer financial protection? & is against

the 1% getting even more control of our financial and political system? Are you kidding me that's an extreme position?

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. Bwhahahahahahahaha!!!!!

hilarious!

LOVE YOU Elizabeth Warren!

[sadoldgirl]

7. Will you sing the same song, if

HRC will lose because she is disliked by many?

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. Well, she's not disliked by the folks who matter. At least not the ones who show up in polling.

[iandhr]

8. She is coming close to the Shermanesque statement

"I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

[Laelth]

41. When she says that (or something similar) ...

... and when she uses future tense, as Sherman did, then I will look for a new, preferred nominee.

Until then, I'd prefer Elizabeth Warren.

-Laelth

[EileenFB]

9. Sounds to me like Erica Sagrans

is not wanting to give up this PAC.

"We've all been clear since we launched our campaign that Senator Warren isn't associated with our group, and we aren't associated with the Senator -- I don't think there's anything new in this letter," Erica Sagrans, the campaign manager for Ready for Warren, said in a statement to TPM.

I could be wrong and the PAC will shut down soon, but they need to respect Senator Warren's request.

[Laelth]

42. Well, I do see one request from Senator Warren.

Warren’s attorney urges the group to instead focus its attention on the US Senate “and not confuse donors about a non-existent run for president."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/08/22/elizabeth-warren-attorney-she-has-nothing-with-ready-for-warren/O7nOU8Z4bwAwFNRNrMFyNM/story.html

I suspect that "Ready for Warren" will keep on "confusing" people.



-Laelth

[stuffmatters]

12. Too bad so put energy & money towards Sherrod Brown

Love & appreciate Bernie, but he's just not a viable candidate.

If Dems want to run a candidate who represents "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party", Sherrod Brown has both the populist likeability and record to represent and win. Notice that Wall Street panics at the possibility of Brown's Finance chairmanship, and that Brown won handily against mountains of Koch/Rove money against him in not so easy Ohio.

Connie Schultz, Brown's wife, is a reporter. I'd like to see her in the White House too. They're a wonderful team.

[brooklynite]

51. Brown doesn't want to run either...

Rather than just sit and dream, I actually ask people things. I have personal information that he's not interested.

[wyldwolf]

13. The DLC forced her to do this.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

15. The DLC disbanded in 2011

On February 7, 2011, Politico reported that the DLC would dissolve, and would do so as early as the following week. On July 5 of that year, DLC founder Al From announced in a statement on the organization's website that the historical records of the DLC have been purchased by the Clinton Foundation. The DLC's last chairman was former Representative Harold Ford of Tennessee, and its vice chair was Senator Thomas R. Carper of Delaware. Its CEO was Bruce Reed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council

At this point, I don't think the DLC is forcing anyone to do anything.

[wyldwolf]

18. no, they did. From their secret underground DC bunker

[Algernon Moncrieff]

19. There's no bunker. An evil lair, perhaps, but no bunker.

[wyldwolf]

21. the DLC probably has something on her.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

24. On Warren or on Erica Sagrans? (nt)

[wyldwolf]

25. maybe both (cue mysterious music)

[freshwest]

27. DUers love the supernatural and never let a good meme go to waste (pic heavy):

http://www.whale.to/c/reptilian8.html

But if you deny it, you must be one. Shapeshifters are everywhere. The DLC will always return, like the Undead. We now return to our regularly scheduled program, Tales from the Darkside.

[mmonk]

20. The Third Way is alive and well.

That is what it calls itself now. My Senator is in it.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

22. Nothing calls itself "The Third Way"

For the past 20 years, I've read many who refer to anyone to the right of Tony Benn as a "Third Wayer".

[frylock]

28. About Us

Third Way represents Americans in the “vital center” — those who believe in pragmatic solutions and principled compromise, but who too often are ignored in Washington.

Our mission is to advance moderate policy and political ideas. Our agenda includes: a series of grand economic bargains, a new approach to the climate crisis, progress on social issues like immigration reform, marriage for gay couples, tighter gun safety laws, and a credible alternative to neoconservative security policy.

Unlike traditional think tanks, we do not house scholars who work in silos on academic research. Instead, we are built around policy teams that create high-impact written products and innovative trainings to influence today’s debates.

Our ideas have been used by the President, members of Congress, governors, mayors and countless political candidates. Based on our record, the media has labeled us “the future of think tanks,” “incorrigible pragmatists,” “radical centrists,” and the “best source for new ideas in public policy.”


http://www.thirdway.org/about_us

[Algernon Moncrieff]

30. I stand corrected

[SoapBox]

14. She said no...so groups need to move on.

Let her make up her own mind and continue to do the work she is doing.

And, people need to get serious about who can win and stop fuck'n around with "fantasy" candidates.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

16. People need to focus on the November midterms

...after they are over, I agree with your post in its entirety.

[Lil Missy]

17. And heads again explode on DU. n/t

[Algernon Moncrieff]

23. The more things change on DU, the more they stay the same

Nice to see you out here

[tridim]

26. She is a great woman even if she never runs. Respect. nt

[Cha]

31. Elizabeth is smart and wise and she doesn't want people to

to waste their time and energy for something that isn't going to happen.

I can see exactly why people support her.. I would too very possibly if she were in the running. I'm looking at Gov Martin O'Malley to see if he has the fire in his belly so to speak.

Mahalo Don

[davidpdx]

32. I agree with you, but at the same time this is more of a rehashing of Hillary inevitability bating

that is happening on DU. I'm open to looking at Governor O'Malley or Senator Sanders.

[FailureToCommunicate]

33. She is doing well as our Senator. Glad she's staying put and not chasing an improbable

dream.

[reddread]

34. hang on to that thought

lets revisit it in a year.
The Warren candidacy means much more to Clintonists
than it does to supporters.
Amazing how that plays out.

[joshcryer]

36. Ready for Hillary is close to passing the $10 million mark.

This is unheard of for a candidate that isn't running. Draft Gore wasn't even a 10th as this popular. Warren isn't stupid, she might jump on board if Ready for Warren was able to raise a few tens of millions, but that's not happening.

Most of Warren's supporters are on the apolitical left.

[Laelth]

37. Excellent. She's doing some smart CYA.

Nothing wrong with this.



-Laelth

[bigworld]

39. Well if Hillary doesn't run, someone had better be ready to go

[brooklynite]

50. And what will you be doing to bring that about?

The anti-Hillary folks seem content to sit at their keyboards and blog about their unhappiness, rather than engage in the hard work of finding a candidate and getting them to run.

[Historic NY]

53. +1

[LloydS of New London]

54. Psst!

don't tell anyone in general discussion

[Blue_Adept]

55. Thank goodness

I'd like to go for a few years without a MA candidate running for higher office like that. We've had so many problems with our senators being changed out recently that some time with them in office doing what they're elected to do will be welcome. With Kennedy dying and then getting Brown for a bit, then Kerry getting upped to SOS and then going with Warren and Markey, it's been all over the place as we've lost both of our senior senators that had a lot of seniority and pull.