Wall Street Not Remotely Worried About Hillary Clinton’s Rhetoric
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president already sees the former secretary of state veering to the left. In remarks made during her initial “listening tour” from New York to Iowa, Clinton has called for a constitutional amendment to get murky money out of politics, and said “there’s something wrong” when “hedge-fund managers pay lower taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80 when I was driving here over the last two days.”
These remarks should be welcome news on the left, where a Clinton candidacy is met with skepticism and longing for a more pure progressive such as Senator Elizabeth Warren. Clinton’s comments should also, in theory, trouble the hedge-fund managers and Wall Street types she’s tossing under the campaign bus. Many, however, believe Clinton is merely adopting a more populist veneer.
Clinton has given many speeches to big financial organizations, at times for fees that reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, manages Eaglevale Partners, a hedge fund. Many of her leading donors have ties to Wall Street.
A trio of Policito’s reporters worked the phones and asked a number of Clinton’s donors and confidants whether they are worried about their friend’s new populist streak. The short answer: no.
One anonymous Democratic donor who works on the Street said Clinton’s rhetoric is “just politics,” while another donor who manages a hedge fund said, “The question is not going to be whether or not hedge fund managers or C.E.O.s make too much money,” but rather, “how do you solve the problem of inequality?”
“Nobody takes it like she is going after them personally,” the second donor said.
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Let us also remember Lloyd Blankfein a self described Moderate Republican donated to Hillary in 2007 and his wife has donated to her 2016 run......
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