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(85,998 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 03:42 PM Jul 2015

O'Malley: Clinton's 'closeness w/ big bank's sincere, well-established, heartfelt, and well-known'

Chris Ryan @wkxlnhchris
@MartinOMalley in a interview to air tomorrow, &quot Sec Clinton's) closeness to big banks on Wall Street is sincere." https://soundcloud.com/wkxl/nh-now-governor-omalley-on-wall-street-reform-7-26-15 … #fitn


In his harshest criticism yet of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley talks about her ties to big banks.


listen: https://soundcloud.com/wkxl/nh-now-governor-omalley-on-wall-street-reform-7-26-15
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O'Malley: Clinton's 'closeness w/ big bank's sincere, well-established, heartfelt, and well-known' (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2015 OP
Kickin' Faux pas Jul 2015 #1
Martin O'Malley has ties to big banks too INdemo Jul 2015 #2
ha! bigtree Jul 2015 #3
the numbers speak for themselves restorefreedom Jul 2015 #6
O'Malley, Sanders, they will both work for me Android3.14 Jul 2015 #4
TA Dow! TheKentuckian Jul 2015 #5

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
3. ha!
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 04:03 PM
Jul 2015

...as finance chairman of the Governors association Sachs gave the organization money.


O'Malley's campaign downplayed his ties to banks.

"Governor O'Malley's strong call to finally rein in Wall Street has clearly struck a chord with the powers that be. They can try to leak as many meaningless tidbits as they want, but Governor O'Malley has shown he will stand up to his own party to call for real structural and accountability reforms of Wall Street," O'Malley spokeswoman Haley Morris told the Daily News.



Ezra Klein @ezraklein

Hillary Clinton's top donors are banks.

Bernie Sanders' top donors are unions.


http://bit.ly/1IvkHe9




O'Malley's top donors have also been unions...

Campaign Finance Data for Martin O'Malley

$22,497,149 Received
...federal data covers from 1989 roughly through Q2 2014
state-level data is not available in bulk for 2014. for current state data, browse http://followthemoney.org/

Top Industries

OpenSecrets.org and FollowTheMoney.org classify contribution data into about 100 industries.

Real Estate $1,624,303
Lawyers/Law Firms $1,007,988
Securities & Investment $391,596
Business Services $390,912
General Contractors $345,526
Hospitals/Nursing Homes $298,950
Building Trade Unions $293,855
Construction Services $266,940
Health Professionals $261,186
Public Sector Unions $209,940


Individuals($14.1M)
PACs($8.3M)
Unknown($88.6K)


Top Contributors

Includes contributions from an organization’s employees, their family members and its political action committee.

BlankCarpenters & Joiners Union- $52,500
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees Union -$49,700
Peter D Hart Research Assoc- $49,000
International Assn of Fire Fighters- $42,800
Service Employees International Union- $40,589
United Food & Commercial Workers Union- $40,250
Media Strategies & Research- $30,950
David S Brown Enterprises- $30,500
National Education Assn- $29,600



View all campaign finance data for Martin O'Malley
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