Baucus '78 committee issued the following announcement on Nov 7.
She checks to see if there are any fellow “Okies” in the crowd. She describes herself as a “teacher,” the job she yearned for as a young girl when she lined up her “dollies” for instruction — “I had a reputation for being tough but fair,” she quips.
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She doesn’t poll her audience for people from Massachusetts, where she is the senior senator and where she has lived for over 20 years. Nor does she refer to herself as a “professor,” instead saying that after a brief public school-teaching stint she “traded littles ones for big ones and taught in law school for most of my life.” At times on the trail, she wears a Berkshire Community College cap — supporting the small school in western Massachusetts where she gave the commencement address in 2015.
Behind the scenes, however, the detailed plans that are the centerpiece of her campaign, covering everything from a wealth tax to trade deals’ “Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” were crafted by an elite Ivy League-studded policy team, whose four members and a senior outside adviser all carry degrees from Harvard University or Yale University as of this summer.
Her policy team’s reliance on Ivy Leaguers, along with the Harvard Law School alumni she regularly consults, reflect the duality in her campaign — the fact that Warren is both an up-by-the-bootstraps success story and a privileged Ivy League professor — that opponents are starting to notice and exploit.
“It’s representative of an elitism that working and middle class people do not share: ‘We know best; you know nothing,’ ‘If you were only as smart as I am you would agree with me,’" Joe Biden wrote in a Medium post this week, referring to Warren’s “viewpoint.”
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