Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Elizabeth Warren assisted mining company: At stake was fund for workers’ health

The Boston Globe reports on Warren's corporate background :
Warren also helped write a petition to the US Supreme Court for LTV Steel in the 1990s, assisting the former industrial conglomerate in its fight against a congressional requirement that it pay millions of dollars into a fund for its retired coal miners’ health care.
The fighter for the middle class?
Her advocacy on behalf of a large corporation, opposing a mandate to pay for the health benefits of blue-collar retirees and their families, would seem to undercut her image as a middle-class champion, the central message of the Democrat’s Senate campaign against Brown, the Republican.
Multi-millionaire Liz Warren at your service.