In the last hours of campaigning, Elizabeth Warren held a rally outside a Dorchester coffee shop. She was joined by the sons of the late senator Ted Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy Jr. said Warren would continue his father’s work, fighting for the underdog and working families. “I know that my father had the chance to work with Elizabeth Warren in Washington on many occasions,” Kennedy told the crowd. “My father admired her tenacity, her intellect, her perseverance in fighting for working Americans, fighting to protect the values that all of us cherish. And he would be proud and honored to know that someone of Elizabeth Warren’s caliber is putting her name forward to represent the people of Massachusetts.”
Warren also invoked Senator Kennedy’s name, saying, “We all take a minute to remember what senator Ted Kennedy did for Dorchester, did for Boston, did for Massachusetts, did for the whole country. His work on health care, but also his work on housing, his work on wages,his work on pensions. The senator was tireless. No one ever had to ask on which side the Senator stood. He stood for working families. Always.”
Warren argued that her opponent, Scott Brown, on the other hand, stood against the working class interests when he blocked 3 Democratic jobs bills. “Scott Brown voted against a jobs bill that would have meant 22 thousand jobs here in Massachusetts,” Warren argued. “[He v]oted against a jobs bill that would have prevented layoffs of teachers, firefighters, police officers. Voted against a jobs bill that would have supported 11 thousand jobs in construction.”
As Warren spoke, supporters huddled around her. Union workers held signs. City counselors, and state lawmakers from Dorchester took their turn at the mic warming up the crowd.
Warren stressed her campaign’s local roots — not her Washington DC fame and Harvard pedigree — and urged her supporters to go out and vote. “We have worked together. We have built our campaign from right here in Dorchester. Literally from the ground up,” Warren told supporters. “Because this isn’t my campaign. So we just have one more thing to do. And that is the most sacred thing, the most powerful thing we can do. And that is we’re getting out starting tomorrow morning and we are going to vote. Bring your friends, bring your family and vote.”
Warren will be scrambling in the final hours, crisscrossing the state and urging her supporters to get to the polls.
