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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Mexico Congressional Candidate: Jail the Bankers
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167893/new-mexico-congressional-candidate-jail-bankersA candidate for Congress in New Mexico has an interesting new television ad outone that, for the first time this cycle (as far as Im aware) explicitly calls for criminal charges for Wall Street executives.
Eric Griego, currently a state senator, is competing in the Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional district in New Mexico against former Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez and Michelle Lujan Grisham, a county commissioner. His ad, released today, features an angry Albuquerque couple who lost money in the financial collapseand then Griego appears. Wall Street has gotten away scot-free, and Congress has done nothing to hold them accountable, he says. I wont stop until Wall Street bankers who broke the law go to jail. Watch it:
Griego was the first candidate endorsed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee this year, and Democracy for America has named him one of its top ten progressive House candidates. Griego is also part of a push to have fellow Democratic state legislators across the country drop any affiliation with ALEC.
Realistically, theres little that a first-term Congressman could do to force criminal accountability for Wall Street bankers that helped cause the crash. Many of the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus already want to see jail sentences, as displayed during its meeting with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last month.
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New Mexico Congressional Candidate: Jail the Bankers (Original Post)
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May 2012
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)1. I hope Mr. Griego gets the nomination.
And I hope he goes on to higher elected office. Maybe we'll get see justice return, for a change.
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)2. Yep, then move on to the War Criminals n/t
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)3. Doesn't he understand that that can NEVER happen?
Those whom the crooks love get elected.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/tom-ferguson-financial-regulation-dont-get-your-hopes-up.html
He would only have to fight his way through his own party hierarchy, impeach Eric Holder, or at least credibly threaten to do so in order to get DOJ to do its job wrt the Wall St. klepto-garchs, all the while defending himself from attacks from the corporate media and the Republicans and the Democrats.
Shit, he may as well pledge to clean up Russia's politics, too, while he's at it.