Elizabeth Warren: "...That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare."

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36. Signal, wardrobe blunder, or neither? CA parents wear red and black at all protests against #SB277.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/warren-662044-sanchez-harris.html

Sen. Elizabeth Warren rouses Democrats in Orange County
May 16, 2015 Updated May 17, 2015 8:24 a.m.



Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech during the general session of the California Democratic Party's annual convention at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday.
BILL ALKOFER , STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

BY MARTIN WISCKOL / STAFF WRITER

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s scathing attacks on corporate control of Washington, D.C. won repeated ovations from the nearly 3,000 delegates gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday for the annual California Democratic Party’s statewide gathering.

“Washington works great if you’re a millionaire or a billionaire or giant corporation,” said the former Harvard Law School professor. “It works great if you can afford to hire an army of lobbyists and lawyers. But it’s not working for California families. It’s not working for American families. We’re here to change that.”

Warren, a 65-year-old first-term senator from Massachusetts, has become perhaps the most charismatic voice of progressive Democrats. Although she has said repeatedly that she is not running for president, there was a scattering of white boater hats in the crowd festooned with stickers saying “Warren for President” and “Run Warren Run.”

In her 22-minute speech keynote speech, Warren pointed to statistics on the shift in the country’s income growth over the last 80 years.

From 1935 to 1980, the lower 90 percent of American earners received 70 percent of all income growth, Warren said. From 1980 to 2012, the top 10 percent received all the nation’s growth in income.

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“I know Washington is a tough place,” she said. “But we don’t win what we don’t fight for. We need people who believe that we can build a future. Not a future for some of our children but a future for all of our children. You are the heart and the soul and the living spirit of the Democratic Party. If we fight for our values will win. Are you ready to win?”

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