Sen. Warren to visit Selma in 3-state tour
Published 5:41 pm Thursday, March 14, 2019
Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, will visit Selma as part of her three-state tour.
The visit will take place on Tuesday, March 19.
The exact time and location have not yet been announced by the campaign office, but officials did say exact time and location would be announced as the event got closer.
According to the campaign’s website, Warren will travel not only to Selma but to Birmingham, Memphis and parts of Mississippi.
The website also states these events will be open to the public and tickets can be reserved online at my.elizabethwarren.com.
Warren will hold an organizing event in Birmingham at historic Boutwell Auditorium as well.
Warren has taught law at a number of universities including Rutgers, Houston, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Harvard. She is the only tenured Harvard law professor to have attended law school at a public university.
Warren was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and re-elected in 2018.
Warren recently differentiated herself from Democratic rival Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, by declaring that she is not a Democratic Socialist.
“I am not,” Warren told South by Southwest reporters. “And the centrists have to speak to whatever they are doing. What I can speak is to is how I am doing. All I can tell you is what I believe. And that is there is an enormous amount to be gained from markets. That markets create opportunities. Markets have to have rules. They have to have a cop on the beat. Markets without rules are theft.”
One of Warren’s goals is to break up tech monopolies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple.
“Today’s big tech companies have too much power: too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy,” Warren told news outlets. “They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation.”