Warren says Brown has repeatedly voted against the middle class. Warren: Brown is Wall Street's buddy

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday attacked Sen. Scott Brown as a friend of Wall Street, charging the Republican has repeatedly voted against the middle class and for the “richest and most powerful among us.”

Warren told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show during a live special airing from Fenway Park that her campaign is all about “fighting to try to give working families, middle-class families, a real shot” — something she said Brown isn’t concerned with at all.


“We had a quarter of a million people unemployed here in Massachusetts last fall — he voted against three jobs bills in a row, he voted against extensions in unemployment,” Warren said. “Me, I’ve been out there all this time, I mean this is all I’ve ever done is fighting to try to give working families, middle-class families, a real shot. And you just keep watching year after year it’s getting tougher for them, and if we don’t make changes, we’ve got a real problem.”

Warren, the former interim head of the consumer bureau, noted that Brown received “an award from Forbes magazine for being one of Wall Street’s favorite senators.”

“I don’t even think I get nominated for that one,” she said. “I’m not even in their top 100 on that.”

Brown, Warren charged, has a record that shows where his real priorities lie.

“All I can do is look at how he voted,” Warren said. “He has voted to protect the richest and most powerful among us, and he has voted against working families.”

And Warren pointed to another major issue in Brown’s reelection campaign: A report earlier this week revealed New York Yankees President Randy Levine shelled out the maximum $2,500 to the Republican’s campaign last month.

“The donation, he tried to move the Sox out of Fenway — he’s kind of got a problem this week,” Warren said.

Brown, who later appeared on the show sporting a Red Sox jacket, pushed back against against Warren dubbing him a friend of Wall Street as he noted his work on the Dodd-Frank bill.

“Listen, I was the supporter. I worked on that. It never would have passed if it wasn’t for me,” Brown said. “I was tired of having banks and Wall Street act like casinos with our money. But not for me being involved, that never would have passed. I heard what Professor Warren said, oh, I watered it down. With all due respect, it never would have passed, No 1. No. 2, there never would have been a consumer protection bureau that she would have been able to participate.”

“And the fact that she said it’s the strongest regulation in three generations, it’s kind of, you know, hypocritical to say all of a sudden that I watered it down,” he added.

Brown emphasized his bipartisan credentials to the hosts, pointing out that in his state “there’s more independents now than there are Democrats and Republicans together.”

“The only reason that we’re getting things done is because I’m there and we’re working hard across the aisle finding people of goodwill to solve problems,” Brown said. “I’m a problem solver.”