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JDPriestly

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5. Few political families are closer to Wall Street than the Clintons.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 04:22 AM
Jul 2014

Few political families are closer to Wall Street than the Clintons. Their family foundation has raised millions from financiers and the foundations of big banks, and recently held its annual briefing for donors in the auditorium of Goldman Sachs’s headquarters in Manhattan. Major financial firms are stocked with Clinton alumni.

And the Clintons often interact with the titans of finance on the Manhattan charity circuit and during their vacations in the Hamptons. Last month, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton sat at a table with Hamilton E. James, president of the Blackstone Group, and mingled with the billionaire David H. Koch at a benefit for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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And some on the left say Mrs. Clinton’s less combative approach to issues of taxation, Wall Street regulation and growth — “We’re all in this mess together,” as one person who had attended several of Mrs. Clinton’s paid speeches described her message — was out of step with the current political climate.

In 2016, said Michael Lux, a political consultant who worked in the Clinton White House, “People are going to be in a surly mood, a populist mood. To have a Democrat too close to Wall Street, raising too much money from them, having a ‘We’re all in this together’ message is a big mistake.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/us/08wallst.html?_r=1

Clinton's daughter is married to a Wall Street broker I believe.

On July 31, 2010, Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky[57] were married in an interfaith ceremony in Rhinebeck, New York.[58]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton

Hillary Clinton, of course, hasn't done anything illegal. But some of the bankers and others who are her friends may have. Many Democrats, many Americans who lost their homes in the banking crisis or nearly lost their homes in the banking crisis, think they did.

Hillary is just too gentle with the bankers for my taste. She is a lawyer. Has she never spoken to some of the homeowners who were foreclosed? Doesn't she know what happened? I'm amazed. If she is a lawyer, she should know fraud when she sees it.

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