WARREN SWITCHED FROM REPUBLICAN TO DEMOCRAT AFTER WATCHING BANKS DESTROY FAMILIES

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BY SHANE CROUCHER ON 4/12/19 AT 8:33 AM EDT

A former colleague of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren said she shifted from conservative to liberal in a Damascene conversion after years of watching bankrupt families pushed to the brink by big banks.

Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is a former finance professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Texas at Austin. But for many years she was a Republican, until the mid-1990s, when she registered as a Democrat.

The 69-year-old is an expert on bankruptcy law and worked with the Obama administration to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011, a regulator now under threat because the Trump administration wants to scrap it.

"She really did have a ‘Road to Damascus’ conversion when she saw the bankrupt consumers really were suffering—forced into bankruptcy by illness, firing or divorce—and not predators,” Calvin Johnson, a law professor and former colleague of Warren’s at UT Austin in the 1980s, told Politico.

FULL story: https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-warren-2020-republican-democrat-bankruptcy-1394282

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