Queens of the Resistance: Elizabeth Warren by Brenda Jones & Krishan Trotman

Author:Brenda Jones & Krishan Trotman [Jones, Brenda & Trotman, Krishan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

LADY SENATOR

If I was you, I’d wanna be me too.

—Meghan Trainor, “Me Too”

Remember when you first stepped onto an ice-skating rink with those blades under your heels, and it felt like you’d never get your grip? You’re holding on to the side rails shook as hell, and you’re not skating, you’re almost tiptoeing around the rink afraid that if you fall you’ll cause a scene like Nightmare on Elm Street where you’ll slit your face or someone else’s in the escalator’s motor chain? You’re basically moving around the rink like you’re in a scene from Crawl. Remember how you thought you’d never learn, and wanted to go home, it was frigid outside and your little fingers were icicles, and you had only come because your best homegirl begged you and there’d be spiked hot chocolate, but then you start moving and sliding and, girl, suddenly you’re striding and gliding down the rink like a dang pro! Well, Elizabeth Warren never thought in a million years she’d be in a position to run for elected office. Never. Until Republicans started messing with her and hindering her moves.

Now here she was in a statewide race against a popular Republican guy arguably better known for being good-looking than anything else: Scott Brown, who had cut into the Democratic dominance forged by Ted Kennedy’s nearly fifty-year tenure as a powerful senator from Massachusetts. Dang it didn’t look good for Warren. But don’t fret, the seat opened up after Kennedy’s death in late 2009, so while Brown was an incumbent he had only held the office for about two years.

Decades earlier, Brown had posed in the buff for Cosmopolitan magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive centerfold—come on, doggone it, no woman politician could ever get away with that and be taken seriously! But the Big Money bosses were ready to be his sugar daddies. They would flood his coffers, making him a formidable candidate to beat. Running for office takes a lot of money, and the race ended up being the most expensive in Massachusetts history—in fact, the only election that year that was more expensive was the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

At her speech at the Democratic National Convention, the new senatorial candidate Warren was charming, warm, and cuddly fuzz as usual, and from the looks of her always-flawless skin, ingenious oval glasses, and the humility with which she approached the sizeable mic, it could be easy to underestimate the academic in the house. These guys knew Warren well enough since way back for her sweeping fight for the middle class, and most recently, her journey with Obama to clean up the ash of the 2008 economic collapse, and they trusted that she was a fist that pulled hard for what she wanted. But they didn’t know yet what it was to see her run for Senate; Warren could pull her queen cape on so quick it was almost blinding. They’d have to shield their eyes from the glow, baby. Warren was

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