Warren is champion for working families

To the editor:

Here's why Elizabeth Warren, senior Senator from Massachusetts, should run for president. She's a champion for working families and one of the top experts on economic pressures facing America's middle class. Time Magazine referred to her as a New Sheriff of Wall Street. She won the fight to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which already has recovered millions and returned money to Americans who were ripped off by Wall Street. She has worked hard to help people challenged by student loan debt, protecting and expanding Social Security, defending women's rights to reproductive health care and equal pay.

She was born and raised in Oklahoma in a family on the edge of middle class. When she was 12, her father had a heart attack and the family fell on hard times. She started baby sitting at 9 and started waiting tables at 13. She was married at 19, put herself through a public university, then law school, while raising two kids. She knows what it's like to work hard and struggle to get by, and that's what motivates her to stand up to corporate interests and fight for the rest of us every day.

Sen. Warren tells it like it is and is willing to fight for families like mine, which is why I want her to run for president.

Run, Warren, Run!

M. Jean Murray

Cedar Rapids