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Can MA senate candidates relate to working class?

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    Tax returns reveal a lot about MA senate candidates

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Senator Scott Brown towards downtown businesses in -- dale while in Dorchester democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren visits the -- players association.

Both are trying to cement -- image with working class voters even other tax -- -- neither brown nor Warren exactly fall into that category again and I am very.

The last to have opportunities we've been together for 25 years and I've been saving and working hard and I want does of those opportunities for everybody.

For me it's about what side you stand on and the kind of work done.

In 2011 Elizabeth Warren and her husband Harvard law professor Bruce man it reported a total income of 6161000.

Dollars.

-- when he ten they made 954000.

Dollars with 171000.

Going to charity.

But you can see these numbers and they're gonna wonder.

How it is it that you can possibly relate to the regular person when in fact you're wealthy.

I am the daughter of the maintenance man who -- live the American dream.

And the lesson I take from them is that great opportunities were forwarded to me.

I'm in this race right now because I worry that those opportunities are being taken away.

-- eleven senator brown and his wife TV news reporter Gail Huff reported a total income of 5101000.

Dollars with 161000.

In donations to charity.

It was -- -- -- ten after brown went to Washington he's income really jumped to 839000.

Dollars.

Thanks in part to a 700000.

Dollar advance for his book does this hurt your image as a regular guy who won't be changed.

I Washington you know I had the opportunity to have a book that's really what the income is skill and I have filed to jointly and some of the income as you know is this from her as well.

And so for the last two years well -- had the book it was -- is gonna Google backed down obviously.

Given that that book now ranks below 200000.

On Amazon's top list of sellers may have a point.

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