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Elizabeth Warren Gets Her Own Truck

3:50 PM, Sep 24, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown won his special election to the U.S. Senate in 2010 by campaigning around the state in his pickup truck. The truck became integral in Brown's popular image, helping the Republican win over traditional Democratic voters to win the seat once held by Ted Kennedy. His opponent this year, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, has dismissed Brown's truck, saying the election is "not going to be about what kind of truck you drive."

But according to the Teamsters union's Facebook page, Warren is getting behind the wheel of her own truck:

White House: No Comment on Hoffa's Remarks

8:21 PM, Sep 6, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

A major labor union leader, Teamsters president James Hoffa, is not backing down from comments he made shortly before President Barack Obama's Labor Day speech that called on union workers to “take these sons of bitches out,” referring to members of the Tea Party and Republicans. Hoffa tells Talking Points Memo that he has “no regrets” about his remarks yesterday in Detroit at the Obama event.

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