Elizabeth Warren Claim Her Father Was a Janitor
Elizabeth Warren has long-claimed[] on the campaign trail[] that her father was a janitor, but in late 2019, her brother disputed this claim and was reportedly “furious.”[]
Reporter Spencer Neale wrote of the controversy[]:
David Herring, brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said he is “furious” to learn the Massachusetts Democrat called their father a janitor on the campaign trail.
“According to a family friend, David has disagreed with the way Warren calls herself the daughter of a janitor as she describes the work he found after losing a job as a salesman after his heart attack,” the Boston Globe reports[].
Speaking with a family friend, Herring was adamant that his father was a maintenance worker, not a janitor. “My Dad was never a janitor,” he told the Globe.
Warren has referred to her father as a maintenance man in the past but has used the term “janitor” while on the campaign trail.
In a 2012 speech titled “Values and the Economic Crisis,” Warren did not identify her father as a janitor. “My father held a series of jobs. His last one was mowing lawns and cleaning swimming pools for an apartment house,” she said.