Elizabeth Warren

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee raised more than $105,000 for a Draft Warren effort, and according to PCCC, almost another $10,000 has been donated to Warren’s exploratory committee.

Cynthia Curtis was put in touch with three other Warren supporters, and in a week, set up a “Draft Warren” house party in her Wellesley home for more than 50 people, many of whom she didn’t know.

“The enthusiasm was electrifying. Everybody knew she wasn’t going to be there. It’s not something affiliated with her exploratory committee and all these people came,” Curtis said.  “I think she will immediately leap to the head of the pack and certainly hearing from folks in attendance last week, there’s not an awful lot of enthusiasm for the other candidates.”

WASHINGTON—A liberal grass-roots group has raised $100,000 to support consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren as she takes steps toward a possible challenge to Republican Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is heading up the Draft Warren campaign and says around 24,000 people have signed it so far. More important for Warren and her potential campaign plans, PCCC tells TPM signers have pledged to give funds “in the large six figures” to a Warren campaign and offered up “tens of thousands of volunteer hours” should she need them.

House Democrats are calling on President Obama to appoint Elizabeth Warren to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the next Senate recess.

Two left-leaning progressive groups have launched an Internet campaign to get Warren appointed. CREDO Action and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee set up a website pushing for a Warren nomination. They’re touting 256,000 electronic signatures calling for the president to appoint Warren.

Liberal boosters for consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren are redoubling their pressure on President Barack Obama to pick her to lead a new financial watchdog agency — despite Republicans’ all-out attempts to undermine the bureau, deny her stewardship of it and block Obama from giving her the job over the Memorial Day recess.

Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee told POLITICO in a statement Friday that his group will keep pressing Obama to name Warren as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He noted his group has collected 175,000 signatures supporting her in just two days, and challenged Obama and Democratic lawmakers to fight for her with all the weapons in their political arsenal, “the biggest being the presidential bully pulpit.”