Ed Markey Hires Elizabeth Warren’s Fundraising Team

The Massachusetts congressman appears to be in it for the long haul:

Michael Pratt, who served as Warren’s national finance director, and Colleen Coffey, who headed fund-raising in Massachusetts, were labeled a “dynamic duo” by one Democrat familiar with the hirings who confirmed them for the Globe.

Pratt and Coffey helped Warren outraise not only her Republican rival, then-Senator Scott Brown, but every other 2012 congressional candidate in the country.

Their hirings add to the momentum Markey has built as the Malden Democrat girds to mount a campaign to replace Senator John F. Kerry, who is expected to resign to become the country’s next secretary of state.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.