2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: OK I'll just say it: the dem establishment wants to lose this election [View all]Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)Senator Warren, and I lover her to death, so don't take this the wrong way, is a beneficiary of a "different" Wall Street animal- not Bankers, but Lawyers.
She left her $350,000-a-year job at Harvard, where she was the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law. That chair was endowed at his behest by the estate of Mr. Gottlieb by the law firm he founded, big time players Cleary-Gottlieb, which is not exactly doing the work of assisting middle-class Americans with their legal interests against the 1 Percent and their "Banksters". Instead, these lawyers make their living in part by helping representing multinational banks who among other things, did not want to pay their part of moneys received from Bernie Madoff back to the victims of his fraud. Other Law firms donating to Warren's campaign include criminal defense firms repping the asbestos industry and defendants in white collar crimes.
Of course donations by Democratic-leaning Wall Street Lawyers is not in and of itself anything one way or the other.
I only posted this because idealistic hero worship precludes realities. Among them, is that Elizabeth Warren has and does take money from Wall Street. As will nominee Bernie Sanders if he hasn't already.
But she's doing a damn good job, wouldn't you agree?