Warren: Brown Still Calls Me ‘Professor’

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show.
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Though the election is over, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), who lost his Senate seat to Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren, continues to refer to Warren as “professor,” Warren told the Boston Globe in an interview published Sunday. Brown referred to Warren as “professor” during the campaign, which was largely seen as an attempt to paint Warren as elitist. Warren met with Brown in his Senate office last month, she said.

Both Warren and a Brown spokeswoman confirmed that the meeting was cordial, focusing largely on how to continue constituent services without interruption during the transition. 

“I thought it went well,” Warren said. “I asked him a lot about the Senate, about what he did, about what advice he had, what surprised him most.”

 

With a slight chuckle, she said Brown continued to address her as “professor”…

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