Warren's problems are self inflicted:
1. her heritage
2. not knowing how to pay for Medicare at the time she came out for it
3. going after Mayor Pete, ignoring her skeletons
I support Mayor Pete & I have early on. The more I watch him handle issues the more I believe he is ready to be POTUS!
Memo from 1990s pollution case shows Elizabeth Warren in action as corporate consultant
By Annie Linskey and Matt Viser
Dec. 9, 2019 at 8:47 p.m. EST
The memo from then-Professor Elizabeth Warren was written on Harvard Law School letterhead, a symbol of gravitas for a scholar renowned as a champion for consumers victimized by predatory banks and other big businesses.
But on this occasion, Warren was not arguing on behalf of vulnerable families, nor was she offering the sort of stinging rebuke of corporate greed that would later define her political career. Rather, Warren was representing a large development company that was trying to avoid having to clean up a toxic waste site.
The memo, which Warren wrote in 1996, used legalistic and often dense language to argue that businesses faced the “risk of the unknown” from a growing threat of lawsuits, and that defended the company’s right to “maximize its returns to its unpaid creditors and to survive as an employer.”
“Environmental claims, product liability claims, and mass tort claims, for which we have currently only seen the tip of the iceberg, are multiplying against American businesses,” wrote Warren, who, according to her campaign, was arguing that a different company should bear the cleanup costs.
The eight-page memo, which has not previously been reported, offers a rare glimpse of Warren in action during her past work as a corporate consultant — one whose arguments were at times out of step with the liberal presidential campaign she is running today.
Read the memo
Warren’s compensation in the 1996 case was included in a summary released by her campaign late Sunday night showing that she had been paid about $2 million as a legal consultant during her time as a professor, most of it between 1995 and 2009.
But Warren, who has released 11 years of tax returns, has not disclosed her tax records from most of that time period.
And her campaign has provided few details about her private legal business beyond short descriptions released in May of cases she worked on and the Sunday night disclosure, which came amid a growing feud over transparency between Warren and rival Pete Buttigieg.
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