Donna Edwards, Democrat Seeking U.S. Senate Seat, Swears Off Wall Street Cash.
A Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Donna Edwards, pledged on Thursday to swear off all campaign donations from Wall Street banks, the latest Democrat to assail big financial institutions.
Edwards, who sits in the U.S. House of Representatives, is vying for the Democratic nomination in Maryland along with fellow Representative Chris Van Hollen. She said she was "outraged" by a Reuters report that major Wall Street banks had met to discuss ways to urge Democrats such as Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to soften their tone against the financial sector.
"Wall Street won't be happy until Democrats stop listening to progressives like me and Elizabeth Warren - and instead carry out orders from the biggest banks in the world," Edwards wrote in a campaign announcement that slammed "massive Wall Street corporations" she said had crashed the U.S. economy during the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Edwards urged Van Hollen, the leading Democrat on the House Budget Committee, to also forgo Wall Street donations. The election is in November 2016.
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Have been keeping up with her. I agree with you 100%, Van Hollen is the party darling, already has $millions, he wouldn't be worse, or much worse than Barbara, but Donna would be MUCH better, progressive-wise.
