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Al Franken joins Elizabeth Warren in the Obama opposition [View all]
Al Franken joins Elizabeth Warren in the Obama opposition
12/30/14
....The Minnesota Democrat restated his opposition on Sunday, sending supporters an email with a link to a petition asking Obama to withdraw Weiss’s nomination. “More than six years after the crash, the American economy is still recovering,” Franken wrote. “We got into that mess because we were willing to let Wall Street police itself. Foxes make poor guards of henhouses. We know that through bitter experience, and I’m not willing to let it happen again.”
Franken joins Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren in opposing Weiss. A Warren adviser said in mid-November that Warren “is a no on Weiss.” Like Franken, Warren considers Weiss’s work on corporate inversions a disqualification, as is his insider status on Wall Street...
Read more at http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/al-franken-joins-elizabeth-warren-in-the-obama-opposition-32599/#goeJLFRWTBXVs5w8.99
12/30/14
....The Minnesota Democrat restated his opposition on Sunday, sending supporters an email with a link to a petition asking Obama to withdraw Weiss’s nomination. “More than six years after the crash, the American economy is still recovering,” Franken wrote. “We got into that mess because we were willing to let Wall Street police itself. Foxes make poor guards of henhouses. We know that through bitter experience, and I’m not willing to let it happen again.”
Franken joins Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren in opposing Weiss. A Warren adviser said in mid-November that Warren “is a no on Weiss.” Like Franken, Warren considers Weiss’s work on corporate inversions a disqualification, as is his insider status on Wall Street...
Read more at http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/al-franken-joins-elizabeth-warren-in-the-obama-opposition-32599/#goeJLFRWTBXVs5w8.99
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