Forget what Timothy Geithner thinks. We want Elizabeth Warren to police Wall Street.

Huffington Post published an explosive story reporting that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is trying to block President Obama from appointing one of the best consumer watchdogs in the nation to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by Congress to rein in Wall Street. ¹

As chair of the bailout oversight panel, Elizabeth Warren held Wall Street executives' feet to the fire and proved time and time again that she was not afraid to speak out.

Geithner is a Wall Street insider with long and deep ties to the financial industry. It's outrageous that he would try to sabotage the nomination of Warren, a respected Harvard professor who came up with the idea of establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the first place. It's clear from his handling of the financial crisis that Geithner is more concerned with protecting his friends on Wall Street than standing up for consumers.

Many Americans are already wary of Geithner because of his handling of the financial crisis. Now many of us are outraged at his latest action. We have mounted a public pressure campaign to win this fight, but we need your help.

With our allies at the PCCC, we launched a campaign supporting Elizabeth Warren. We turned the media narrative around and demonstrated that Americans want a real watchdog in charge of Wall Street regulation. But we must continue to generate thousands of phone calls to Congress and get tens of thousands more petition signatures to counter attempts by Geithner and the big banks to block her appointment.

If we fight back now we can make a difference. Help us create overwhelming momentum for Elizabeth Warren.

¹ Tim Geithner Opposes Nominating Elizabeth Warren To Lead New Consumer Agency