Pro-Wall Street Democrats launch insurgent campaign in New York against liberal Democrat

[Karmadillo]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/08/wall_street_democrats

Have you caught Reshma Saujani fever? Saujani is an Ivy League-educated lawyer running for congress. Isn't that the most boring thing imaginable? Here's the twist: She's a former banker, running on a pro-Wall Street platform, as a Democrat!

There is a terrible axis of wealthy New Yorkers that is very upset with the Democratic party for attempting to pass financial reform. It includes billionaire mayor and moderate Republican Michael Bloomberg, longtime Democratic fundraiser and former Obama appointee Steven Rattner and his awful wife Maureen White, and the town's newspaper publishers, conservative populist Rupert Murdoch, confused conservative sometime Democrat Mort Zuckerman, and idiot boy-king Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger.

They are not aligned on all things, of course, but they do agree that New York's current congressional delegation is far too mean to bankers. So Sulzberger, White, Rattner, and Bloomberg first attempted to run failed Tennessee politician Harold Ford against Kirsten Gillibrand. Then Bloomberg and Murdoch attempted to run Zuckerman against Gillibrand. (They all hate Chuck Schumer, but he's untouchable.) Both of those campaigns ended before they began.

Now, apparently, they have set their sights lower, and they are challenging longtime Manhattan and Queens Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Maloney is no one's idea of a political superstar, but she's a reliable New York liberal Democrat. She also chairs the Joint Economic Committee, and she authored the credit card reform bill, one of the better pieces of progressive legislation that survived the congressional process last year. That, friends, was too much for our league of ostensibly Democratic plutocrats.

Saujani "worked at three hedge funds," which is, apparently, proof that she's very smart and would make a very good congresswoman.

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I am shocked.................!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. The infestation of the Democratic Party continues....

:mad:

[HughMoran]

3. All negative

...all the time.

[Karmadillo]

6. Anything inaccurate in the article?

nt

[HughMoran]

7. 100% of the time

[Karmadillo]

8. 100% of the time?

nt

[Forkboy]

10. Hell of a rebuttal!

I'm swayed!

[madfloridian]

9. If it is Salon it must be inaccurate. Right?

Is that what you are saying out loud?

Sounds like the story is right on about the battle going on.

[Karmadillo]

11. Me? Not at all. Mr. Moran seems

to have a problem with the articles I've posted lately, and I was just asking him to specify what in the article was inaccurate. As far as I can tell, it has its facts in a row. I posted it because I think it's important for liberal Democrats to know when a liberal is under attack by Wall Street interests.

[madfloridian]

12. Oops, posted reply without reading the rest of it.

I agree with you, the article about Rattner and his wife sounds about right. There have been problems from that bunch.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Maloney should crush her like a bug. But.....

... it's never exactly a lock anymore. Bloomberg proved that if you pour enough $$$ into a campaign you can elect a cold mashed potato sandwich.

Probabaly not in a DEM primary though. The sandwich will have to buy a couple of extra lines on the November ballot to have a real chance. And the GOP line in Manhattan can always be had if you have enough $$ and connections.

Certainly there wouldn't be any issue of ideology getting in the way.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Highly unlikely that Ms. Wall Street wins this one.

If she does, the seat might as well be handed over to John Boehner, seeing that Ms. Saujani is a shill for Wall Street.