Who Is Elizabeth Warren?
BOSTON (CBS) - Elizabeth Warren isn't a candidate yet, but she's already creating a lot of buzz in the race for Scott Brown's U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts.
And Monday, in her first public speech since returning from Washington, she got a standing ovation from the crowd of union laborers at the annual Greater Boson Labor Council Labor Day Breakfast, when she told them about her commitment to the middle class: "I'm not giving up without a fight."
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Warren, a 62-year-old Harvard Law School professor, who as tapped by President Obama to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told the crowd, "I'm going to keep fighting for middle class families, for working people, whether I fight as an outside or I fight from the floor of the Senate, I will continue to stand up for what I believe in. It is the biggest fight of our lifetimes, and we will throw everything we've got into it. We cannot afford to lose, we will not lose."
She also shared some personal history.
"I got married when I was 19, I had my first baby when I was 22," she told the audience. She went to law school when she was 24, and says for most of her life she has been working for working families.
Afterward, we asked Professor Warren: "Scott Brown says he is an independent voice, can you make that same claim?"
Her answer: "You know, I've been talking about middle class American families and what's happening to them and fighting for them all my life. I'm not going to stop now."
Brown has called some of her past statements divisive class warfare.
When asked about this, Warren said: "The middle class is in a lot of trouble right now, they have been hammered, they've been dinged, they've been squeezed, and they need somebody to say we need some changes in Washington, we need someone on our side."
When will Elizabeth Warren make her run for Senate official?
"I'm a serious person, when I do things I jump into them all the way, and that means I want to look and be really thoghtful about this. Whatever I do can't just be about me, it's got to be about alot of other people who say I want to be a part of that."
