NEW: Brown Campaign Launches “We Built This” Petition

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Monday, August 06, 2012

GoLocalWorcester Politics Team

The Scott Brown campaign has issued the 'We Built This' campaign in response to Elizabeth Warren's recent 'You Didn't Build That' comment.

According to a spokesperson for the Brown camp, the petition we sent out earlier today and had already garnered over 1,000 signatures in less than two hours.

The petition comes after Warren’s statement in which she said that business owners will “move your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for."

“Harvard’s Elizabeth Warren is not only the self-proclaimed ‘intellectual founder’ of the Occupy protest movement, she’s also the originator of the idea that no one got successful on their own,” the petition reads. “Professor Warren’s view is that government is responsible for helping to build your business. Because of that, Warren says government is entitled to, as she put it, ‘a hunk’ of whatever you built.”

This mentality, the petition says, is Warren’s justification for raising taxes in her plan for the economy.

Warren recently said about her statements, "I’m not demonizing anybody.  I’ve been going all across this Commonwealth meeting with folks who run their small businesses," she said. "I have a really strong appreciation for how hard they work, and for how much they risk – and that sometimes,those risks don’t pay off. What bothers me right now is that Washington isrigged not to work for small businesses, but rigged to work for the big guys –and I think that’s the part that’s wrong."

The Brown camp is promoting their petition to "send a message to Elizabeth Warren that America is a country that celebrates and honors those who take a risk and work hard to build a business,” the petition reads. “It is innovative people in a thriving system of free enterprise who will lead our economic recovery, not politicians in Washington.”

Warren defended her comments, saying, "The system right now is rigged in Washington to work for the big guys. Think about it on tax loopholes. There are companies in the Fortune 500 bringing in millions of dollars in profits andwhat do they pay?" she said. "They pay zero in taxes. How do they do that? Because of all the loopholes, because of all the complexities, because they can hire an army of lobbyists and an army of lawyers. Small businesses can’t do that."

Warren has received heat recently for her use of China as an example of a country that is moving ahead of America in terms of its investment of GDP in infrastructure and their future. Warren has said several times that America’s investments in the future pale in comparison.

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