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Wow: Warren Now Says She Self-Identified as Native American to...Make Friends

Becca in TX Wrote: May 03, 2012 4:32 PM
solalcon-Warren hasn't actually made it to Congress yet-that's what we'd like to prevent from happening.
socalcon Wrote: May 03, 2012 5:35 PM
Okay, a quick google search shows that current members that publicly support Warren are Al Franken and Bernie Sanders.

Start there.

A surreal update to my item from yesterday, which posed two questions about the curious case of Elizabeth Warren, alleged "Native American."  The first: If Warren never, ever, ever would have exploited her possible heritage for career advancement, why did Warren classify herself as a Native American in 1986?  The second: Why did she remove that label nine years later -- after she'd achieved tenure at Harvard?  Yesterday evening, the candidate answered both curiosities.  I swear I am not making this up:
 

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might...

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