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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Oct 1, 2015, 09:27 AM Oct 2015

Elizabeth Warren is on the hunt again

Elizabeth Warren, collector of corporate hides, is on the hunt again.

Fresh from her triumph Tuesday over the Brookings Institution in which she forced the ouster of a corporate-backed scholar, the populist Democratic senator from Massachusetts was at Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill, firing up a crowd of housing activists Wednesday afternoon.

Facing the pews, with a large brass cross behind her, Warren blasted the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, both run by Obama appointees, for selling troubled mortgages to hedge fund investors at a discount.

“These Wall Street investors made money by crashing the economy, got bailed out and now they’re back to feed at the trough again,” she said, “scooping up these loans at rock-bottom prices so that they profit off them a second time — and it is up to us to stop that!”

The activists cheered.

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Elizabeth Warren is on the hunt again (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2015 OP
Gotta love Elizabeth Warren. She is awesome. :) n/t. ZM90 Oct 2015 #1
Interesting... davidpdx Oct 2015 #2

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 06:16 AM
Oct 2015

HUD is currently being run by Julian Castro which is who the Clinton people keep mentioning as a VP pick.

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