Progressive star Warren campaigns with Tennant (WV)

Thank you, Elizabeth!!!

Monday, July 14, 2014
Progressive star Warren campaigns with Tennant
By Jonathan Mattise
The Associated Press

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Focusing on pocketbook issues like student loan debt, Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren stirred up support for Natalie Tennant’s Senate bid in a packed Shepherdstown ballroom Monday.

A crowd of more than 400 cheered on the progressive star from Massachusetts in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle, a Washington, D.C., commuter community much closer to the nation’s capital than the state’s. Warren, who says she won’t run for president despite rumors and support, tried to hush chants of “2020” and “2016” coming from the crowd.

Tennant, the Democratic secretary of state, says seventh-term Rep. Shelley Moore Capito is too close to Wall Street interests.

Capito wants to align Tennant with President Obama whenever possible, particularly focusing on Obama’s proposal to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and how it could affect the state’s iconic coal industry. Tennant says she opposes the rules...

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