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BlueMTexpat

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5. I LOVE her still!
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:54 AM
Apr 2020

But I want her to stay where she is right now! She can do more in the US Senate.

Losing her there would mean that a GOP Gov would appoint a GOP Senator. We already have WAY too many of those!

While I would love to see a woman Veep candidate, I would like to see other and younger women considered, not simply one of the women primary challengers.

But if one loves Warren and her ideas as I do, Katie Porter springs to mind. https://boingboing.net/2019/10/21/go-katie-go.html

From the link:

In 2018, Katie Porter flipped a Republican safe seat -- it had literally never been held by a Democrat-- in California's 45th District, and since then, she has been a delightful, brilliant terror of a lawmaker, using her deep background in finance law (she's a tenured finance law prof at UC Irvine who literally wrote the textbook on consumer finance law in the wake of Dodd-Frank and Elizabeth Warren's establishment of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau).

Porter's got an amazing background: she went magna cum laude at Harvard Law (Elizabeth Warren was one of her profs), and she's also a single mom of 3 and domestic abuse survivor. She's got an amazing, prosecutorial questioning style that is an absolute breath of fresh air in Congressional hearings, where the median lawmaker is barely capable of asking a coherent question.
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