Elizabeth Warren running for Senate? Signs suggest she's considering it.

[jefferson_dem]

Warren Talked With DSCC
Schedule Suggests Senate Bid Courtship
By Joshua Miller
Roll Call Staff
July 9, 2011, Midnight



Elizabeth Warren’s calendar sure looks like the schedule of a woman considering a Senate bid, or at least someone being courted by power players in Massachusetts and the Senate Democrats’ campaign operation in Washington.

In recent weeks, Warren has met in person or spoke on the phone with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, David Axelrod, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Massachusetts Democratic Reps. Barney Frank, Stephen Lynch and John Tierney. The phone call with Murray took place in early June, Roll Call has learned. Warren attended a community banking event with Tierney in the Bay State and dined with Schumer, a former DSCC chairman and an aggressive recruiter who remains involved in DSCC activities.

Warren’s May calendar, the most recently available public schedule, shows the Schumer dinner along with the other meetings and discussions.

Given that Warren is leading the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB business could, of course, have been the lone agenda item during these meetings. But for a woman some national Democrats and liberal activists are hoping will take on Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R) — a prime target in 2012 — her calendar alludes that she has at least been examining the possibility of a run.

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[Oceansaway]

1. k & r...nt

[mopinko]

2. if they refuse to confirm her, she might as well.

[TheWraith]

3. She's said she doesn't want a permanent appointment. This might be why.

Or it could just be wishful thinking, who knows?

[immoderate]

4. Unless she runs for president.

--imm

[applegrove]

5. Oh yeah. She'd make a great president some day. And no sex scandals

to bring her down cause she's a woman.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. She is too good for the Senate.

I'd like to see her at Treasury if they won't let her near the CFPB seat. Hell, I'd like to see her as President. Whatever path she chooses, she has my support though. She would have to eat a live baby on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before my opinion of her would drop even a notch.

[Arkana]

7. If Obama doesn't make her the head of this consumer protection thing,

we'd be more than happy to have her run in MA against Senator Porno.