Sen. Warren is 'Watertown Strong' After Meeting with Fire Chief

Watertown Fire Chief Mario Orangio presented the senator with a Watertown Fire Department "Watertown Strong" T-shirt during a meeting in Washington, DC.

Sen. Warren is 'Watertown Strong' After Meeting with Fire Chief

Watertown Fire Chief Mario Orangio presented the senator with a Watertown Fire Department "Watertown Strong" T-shirt during a meeting in Washington, DC.

On his trip to Washington, DC, Watertown Fire Chief Mario Orangio met with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and presented her with a "Watertown Strong" T-Shirt. "Met up with the Senator and presented her with our WFD Watertown Strong tee shirt which she says she'll wear with pride!" Orangio wrote in an e-mail. Orangio is attending the National Fire and Emergency Services Seminars and Dinner as the president of the Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts. "Our message to the Federal legislators is to support Fire Act Grant funding. This is through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant programs," Orangio said. During his time as chief, Watertown has received three grants fron this program totaling around $200,000, Orangio said. "The …

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Lots of Hybrid Owners and Democrat Voters in Watertown

Watertown voted for Elizabeth Warren and owns more hybrid cars than the state average.

Watertown is green and blue: That’s what we found when we compared data from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to the vote in the 2012 U.S. Senate race. You can see the results in the map above: Large circles suggest towns with more hybrid ownership per capita, and the red/blue color suggests which way those towns voted last year. In Watertown, 23.5 of every 1,000 vehicles is a hybrid, compared to the state average of 18. Patch’s research suggests the state has a good number of what might be called “green Republican” communities. More than 40 percent of the communities where Republican Scott Brown carried the vote have an above average numbers of hybrids. The data is a nice rebuttal to the national trends of hybrid/GOP …

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Elizabeth Warren Reportedly Chosen For Seat On Key Senate Banking Committee

Incoming Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren will take office in January.

Massachusetts Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren has been chosen for a seat on the Senate's Banking Committee, according to the Huffington Post, which cited several sources. Warren, a Democrat who helped create the federal government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, defeated incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown in the November election. Prior to being elected, Warren worked as a consumer advocated and was considered to become the head of the CFPB.  TELL US: What do you think of Warren being chosen for the Banking Committee? Share your comments in the box below.

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Aron Levy

2:08 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012

Hear, hear!   more ›

TELL US: What Should Scott Brown Do Next?

U.S. Senator Scott Brown will leave office in January. What should he do next?

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican, was defeated Tuesday by first time candidate Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat. Warren will take office as the state's junior senator in January. She'll replace Brown, who was elected in a special election in January 2010 when he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley. In his concession speech on Tuesday night, Brown told his supporters that "defeat is only temporary." As soon as the race was called, analysts began suggesting Brown may run for Massachusetts governor in 2014 or would seek the state's other U.S. Senate seat if Senator John Kerry is named Secretary of State under President Barack Obama in his second term. What should Brown do next? Tell us in the comments.

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Elizabeth Warren Wins U.S. Senate Seat in Massachusetts

Democrat Elizabeth Warren beat incumbent candidate Scott Brown in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race.

Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has beaten incumbent Republican candidate Scott Brown for a seat on the U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press. Warren is won by a margin of eight percentage points, 54 percent to 46 percent, making her the first female senator elected in Massachusetts.  An estatic Warren addressed a crowd of hundreds of excited supporters at the Copley Fairmont Plaza hotel in Boston on Tuesday night. "We did what everyone thought was impossible," she said. "We taught a scrappy, first-time candidate how to win." "You took on the powerful Wall Street banks and let them know that you want a Senator out there fighting for the middle class all of the time," she said. "And despite the odds, you elected the first …

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TMHSGrad

10:16 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012

Typical liberal - always having to tell people how they should live their lives.   more ›

Warren Up in Polls, Herald Endorses Brown: Who's Winning?

Who do you think has the momentum coming into these final days of the election campaign?

Democrat Elizabeth Warren is up by five points over incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the latest WBUR/MassINC poll of the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts. That's a near-total reversal of the last WBUR poll, which on Oct. 9 (right after the first presidential debate) had Brown up by four points. In fact, Warren has been trending upward in most recent polling. The New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog has Warren up by four in an average of recent polls. The blog, which uses advanced statistical modeling akin to baseball sabermetrics (think Moneyball) gives Warren an 89 percent chance of winning the election. But Brown's got some significant energy on his side as well. He's been barnstorming the state with political luminaries like …

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Sonny Beaches

3:17 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Patrick H can you say misogynist ?   more ›

LETTERS: 2 Watertown Residents Support Elizabeth Warren for the Mass. Senate Seat

Jeffrey Krasner writes that he does not like Scott Brown's campaign tactics and Pia Owens had Warren as a professor and supports her because she "cares for the middle class."

  To the editor: One version of “the big lie” in politics is for a candidate to take the very worst thing they are guilty of, and accuse their opponent of the same behavior. That is what Scott Brown did Thursday (Oct. 17) when he claimed that Elizabeth Warren had paid actors to appear in campaign ads praising her for her work on behalf of asbestos-poisoning victims.  That tactic backfired terribly for Brown. First, children of asbestos victims came forward to call him on that lie. Then, attention focused on the story in the Boston Herald (Oct. 17) exposing Brown’s actual sleazy tactic: paying homeless men and others $8 an hour to wear T-shirts supporting Brown.  Sure, Scott Brown apologized for his comment about the children of asbestos …

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VIDEO: Franken to Mass Dems: Ignore Your Families and Pound Pavement for Warren

The SNL alum turned U.S. Senator riled up a highly partisan crowd Friday, Oct. 18 in Lexington, where he and local politicians hit on economic and environmental concerns in support of Elizabeth Warren.

Politics are no laughing matter, but with little more than two weeks remaining before the Nov. 6 elections, Massachusetts Democrats looked for a shot in the arm from the so-called “clown” of the Democratic Party, Al Franken, the former SNL cast member turned US Senator from Minnesota.  Franken was in Massachusetts Oct. 19 to support Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate candidate looking to unseat the Scott Brown, the Republican incumbent, in a tight race many politicos expect will have ramifications far beyond the Commonwealth’s borders. And the stumping stopped here in Lexington Friday afternoon, as Franken and U.S. Rep Ed Markey joined a few more familiar faces to address an overflowing Depot building. There were jokes aplenty, for sure, …

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