Here's One Thing Bernie Sanders Could Have Told Hillary Clinton About Wall Street Influence

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted at Thursday night's Democratic debate that campaign contributions and speaking fees from Wall Street and other major corporate sectors have not influenced her politically, challenging Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to name a single way in which they had.

"Let's talk about why in the 1990s Wall Street got deregulated," Sanders responded. "Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street spent billions on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence."

But Clinton had set a high bar, asking for a specific way in which specific contributions influenced her.

Sanders could have brought up Blair Effron after Clinton herself slammed what are known as corporate "inversions," specifically citing the company Johnson Controls, which pulled off an egregious example of a move done to reduce a company's U.S. tax bill. Effron is a founding partner of Centerview Partners, an investment firm that played a major role in the Johnson inversion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-wall-street_us_56b420fee4b01d80b245cd2c

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1. He could have brought up her softening positions on progressive issues

She has moderated away from progressive issues ever since it became fashionable to be right wing cuckoo in this country.