Setti Warren (photo courtesy: Setti Warren/Facebook)
BOSTON (AP) – Newton Mayor Setti Warren is jumping into the race against Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
Warren made the announcement Monday in a video posted on a new senate campaign website.
The Democrat is in his first term and conceded that while many people don’t know him, he is about as familiar to voters as Brown was two years ago.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Kim Tunnicliffe reports.
Warren is the state’s first popularly elected black mayor.
Warren is an Iraq War veteran, having served a yearlong tour of duty as a Naval Intelligence Specialist. He also worked in the White House under former President Bill Clinton and is a past staff member for Democratic Sen. John Kerry.
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Warren joins a growing Democratic field against Brown, including City Year co-founder Alan Khazei and former lieutenant governor candidate Robert Massie.
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