Elizabeth Warren - Controversies

On August, 27, 2012 Mrs Warren and some of her aides were leaving a campaign event outside of Martha's Vineyard. A Republican "tracker" was following her and videoing the events. A tracker is a person that follows around a campaign and films all the events, hoping to catch a candidate contradicting themselves or making a mistake. It is now a very common practice and both parties employ them on every Senate campaign.rnFor unknown reasons, a member of Mrs Warren's campaign slapped the ca ...

In July of 2012, President Obama made remarks during a campaign speech that created a controversy concerning his economic views. In those remarks, the President asserted that if you built a small business or a medium company that you owed that success to the remaining people who assisted in its functions. This could include those who built the roads, teachers who taught the students who you hired later, or the local cops and fire fighters.rnAfter these remarks, video surfaced that was put out by ...

While speaking at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2011. In that speech, she discussed having children while attending law school and the challenges of being a woman and a mother in the that field of law at that time. During the speech, she claimed that she was "the first nursing mother to take the bar exam." This claim was later disputed and the bar for the state does not track such statistics.rnIn a later statement, the Warren campaign asserted that Mrs Warren was pointing out the ...

In 1989, Mrs Warren published a book with two other researchers which was the result of a National Sciences Foundation grant and focused on the relationship between consumer credit and personal bankruptcies (Chapter 13). The basic conclusions of the book were that people who declared bankruptcy typically got into a poor financial position because of predatory lending practices and that this led to an increase in bankruptcies. The work has been used as part of the basis for a number of gover ...

In June of 2012 Elizabeth Warren was speaking at a convocation at UMass-Boston. In that speech, she told a story about her heritage and asserted that her grandmother crossed the country in a wagon in 1889 at the age of 15 to settle land out west with her family. She then claimed that this same woman lived to be 94 and saw her youngest granddaughter (Mrs Warren) graduate from college.rnMrs Warren's grandmother was 2 years old in 1889, and unfortunately she passed away in 1969 - the year before M ...

In 1984, Mrs Warren contributed five recipes to a cooking book edited by her cousin, Candy Rowsey, that was titled "Pow Wow Chow." The book was intended to be a series of recipes that had been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe. In May of 2012, it was discovered that at least three of the five recipes submitted by Mrs Warren appeared to have been taken directly from other sources. This included two recipes that appeared to hav ...

Elizabeth Warren worked at the University of Texas from 1983-1987. She then took a job at the University of Pennsylvania where she remained until she started working at Harvard in 1992. rnWhile speaking as part of her 2012 senate campaign, Mrs Warren claimed to have Native American heritage. As proof of the claim that she was 1/32 Native American, Mrs Warren often spoke about remarks that her Aunt Bea would make about her father - Elizabeth Warren's grandfather. This aunt would often point ...