VIDEOS: Warren, Patrick Spar With Reporter Over Candidate's Ancestry
The governor endorsed Elizabeth Warren at her Somerville campaign headquarters. He also defended Warren after a question about the senate candidate's past claims of being a minority due to Native American ancestry.
Governor Deval Patrick appeared at Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren’s Somerville headquarters to offer his endorsement, and ended up coming to her defense. An otherwise by-the-books endorsement by the governor ended with a tense exchange with a reporter concerning criticism Warren has received about her ancestry and reports that she listed herself as a minority during her career as a professor. During questions from the media, Warren and the governor sparred with the reporter over the controversy—that she once listed herself as a minority law professor at Harvard due to being 1/32 Native American—which has followed her campaign through most of May. When the reporter brought up the issue, Patrick stepped in to answer for Warren."Let me say…
ed shreenan
11:47 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012
The woman is a fraud, she considers herself a true Okie . If such a smart person lies to obtain minority status, what the help else will she lie about. She h as zero proof of Native American blood. Democrats pull this garbage all the time, but anyone else would be called on the carpet. She's a phony, and I'll never support that candidate. more ›