Mass. Dems to endorse US Senate candidate
Source: Associated Press
Mass. Dems to endorse US Senate candidate
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Posted: 06/02/2012 02:38:25 PM EDT
By BOB SALSBERG and SHANNON YOUNG
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was poised to receive the endorsement of her party’s state convention on Saturday, but it remained to be seen whether the Harvard Law School professor who has struggled to put behind her a controversy about her claims of Native American ancestry would still face a primary contest.
A second Democrat, immigration attorney Marisa DeFranco, needs, under party rules, to get the support of at least 15 percent of the more than 3,500 delegates to the convention to qualify for the September ballot. The winner of the primary would be the party’s nominee and take on incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown in November.
Addressing the delegates prior to the vote, Warren said Brown would rather attack her family than talk about his own voting record. "Well I say this, if that’s all you’ve got Scott Brown, I’m ready," said Warren to sustained applause.
"And let me be clear: I am not backing down. I didn’t get in this race to fold up for the first time I got punched. I got in this race because people are being hammered and they are counting on me to stand up for them."
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