U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, is campaigning for U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Sen. Mark Udall, who has made women’s issues a cornerstone of his re-election campaign, is getting some help Friday from U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and in Colorado’s biggest must-win county.
and Richards will join Udall and Congress Ed Perlmutter of Golden at the Democrats’ Jefferson County coordinated campaign field office to kick off canvassing. Expect Udall & Co. to talk about familiar themes he has mentioned on the campaign trail in his tough re-election bid against Republican Congressman Cory Gardner:, , equal pay, student loans.
“We are thrilled Sen. Warren will be touring the state with her ideological twin, Mark Udall,” Ryan Call, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, facetiously said.
“If they have it their way, Colorado’s energy industry will be completely destroyed, federal spending would be even higher, and Americans will be subjected to even greater federal mandates on their healthcare choices. These radical positions might work in Massachusetts and Washington, but they don’t work in Colorado.”
Earlier Friday, Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Richards will a host a Women for Udall economic round table with female business owners at a west Denver restaurant.
Warren, who unseated Republican Sen. Scott Brown in 2012, became a hero of the left with rebutting the argument that asking the rich to pay more taxes was “class warfare.”
I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Two weeks ago, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey .
