A hit and a miss from Senator Elizabeth Warren

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14. I think if she's president, then more progressive have a shot at her seat AND her cabinet!

... and we empower more real progressives out there with some decent experience that will help us later when we need more of them to help in other capacities. The problem is that we get one decent progressive in a significant office like the Senate, the House or some other position, and we tell them to just "stay there", instead of using their experience and skills in greater capacity that the country sorely needs at this point. And I'd like to believe that the state of Massachusetts could elect another decent progressive to replace her in the tradition they elected here and Ted Kennedy earlier. It wasn't that long ago that Senator Merkley got elected here in Oregon as our senator and he's been doing great things that might have some say "stay in office" if and when he wins his senate seat back in a few weeks (which I believe he will). But I as an Oregon resident would be proud if he were selected as someone like Warren's running mate in 2016 and would work extra hard that we could get another good progressive elected to replace him here then were that to happen.

If you are saying that there aren't any good progressive individuals that she could nominate for her cabinet for her to delegate her work to effectively, then that really supports my point that we really need more people to get in positions where they can appoint more progressives to cabinets and agencies, etc. to build up that experience we need, and help make someone like Warren a strong president that doesn't have to micromanage everyone under them to get effective progressive reforms enacted.

Now is the time to push for more progressive representation in our government, not to just "stay" where we are.