On Tuesday, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren announced her candidacy for a Democratic Senate seat against Republican Senator Scott Brown in the 2012 election.
After her official announcement today, Warren will commence her statewide campaign at a Boston MBTA station and then greet voters in New Bedford, Framingham, Springfield and Worcester, according to a media advisory.
Warren, a former official of the Obama Administration, has been an avid critic of the country’s financial institutions.
She announced her campaign with an informational video uploaded onto her website that outlines her campaign objectives.
As the daughter of a janitor and a store clerk who was educated in the public school system in Oklahoma, Warren said she can relate to middle-class families struggling in the economy.
She said that large corporations are receiving concessions while middle-class citizens suffer, according to a media advisory.
“I want to change that,” Warren said in the promotional video. “I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.”
Warren has lived for the past several years in Washington to develop a national following and continues to attack the nation’s financial institutions, claiming that they prey on consumers.
In 2008, Warren was chosen to be the chairman of a congressional panel that managed the Troubled Assets Relief Program. As chairman, she called for more consumer protection, including regulations on mortgages, credit cards and banks.
In addition to her political campaign, Warren is one of the creators of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was made under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
President Barack Obama chose former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to replace her after Republicans opposed her appointment as director of the agency.
Warren joins six other Democrats, including City Year co-founder Alan Khazei and Newton Mayor Setti Warren, to compete for the Democratic nomination.
Brown, who won a special election in January 2010 to replace former Sen. Edward Kennedy, will be running for a complete six-year term in next year’s election.
A recent poll on WBUR revealed that Warren is the strongest competitor again Brown, following nine percentage points behind him.
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