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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yet another HRC campaign move - faith based/values messaging - Hallelujah! [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)30. Barney Frank sells out to Big Banking; bucks for Clinton cabinet appointment.
Barney Frank joined one of the nation's largest bank's board of directors June 17, 2015.
Signature is a $29 billion bank that primarily works with privately-owned businesses. The 14-year old bank has been growing rapidly and performing well at a time when other banks have struggled. Last quarter it posted its 22nd consecutive quarter of record earnings.
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/06/17/barney-frank-yes-that-barney-frank-joins-a-bank-board/
The following month (July 22, 2015) he published an article denying Hillary's ties to Wall Street, touting her as a progressive, and attacking Sanders for daring to challenge HRC in the primary. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/why-progressives-shouldnt-support-bernie-120484#.VbhB0NLD-RR
As a new member of the Board of Signature Bank New York, Frank received a signing bonus, so to speak, of 1,913 shares of common stock, currently worth $262,406. But the best is yet to come! As per documents filed as required by law with the SEC, and incorporated by reference to SBNY's 2015 shareholders' meeting report, in 2014 every member of the bank's board received $319,900 in stock options and additional annual compensation for attending board meetings and sub-committee meetings ranging from $46,750 to $63,416.67.
https://materials.proxyvote.com/Approved/82669G/20150224/NPS_236192/#/1/
$350,000 a year sure beats a one-time payment of 30 pieces of silver. If you're going to sell out progressives, Go Big! Pretty sweet deal, Barney! But a lot of Frank's future financial security hinges on HRC winning the primary & the general, & him nailing that cabinet position, so we expect him to keep attacking Bernie Sanders.
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Yet another HRC campaign move - faith based/values messaging - Hallelujah! [View all]
Divernan
Sep 2015
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Author of this piece is employed by center-right, "Bibles, Badges, Business" group
Divernan
Sep 2015
#1
Even the author of the book 'progressives' cite says that charge is bullshit. Wanna look closer?
wyldwolf
Sep 2015
#15
NOT UNIQUE TO HRC!!! Also in 2008, Courted by DNC/Obama...See if these names pop up in the future...
Gloria
Sep 2015
#100
She doesn't get a pass just because other people were wrong on it, too.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#104
Yeah, and 10 years ago the beltway waterheads were demanding our party court "values voters"
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#106
More proof that the "conventional wisdom" her advisors are giving her is at least 10 years out of
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#4
Right - "Hillary was opposed to marriage equality until 2013 because of her beliefs."
tecelote
Sep 2015
#8
Didn't want her in '08, don't want her now. Hillary...don't go away mad, just go away!
AzDar
Sep 2015
#11
I'm a Bernie supporter so I really don't want her to stop what she is doing, but...
A Simple Game
Sep 2015
#12
Correct me if I'm wrong but MLK isn't running for, hasn't run for, or ever will run for President.
A Simple Game
Sep 2015
#25
But there is a secret, silent 63% that Sanders is appealing to and Clinton is not n/t
eridani
Sep 2015
#86
Guess how many in the African-American and Hispanic communities are religious?
wyldwolf
Sep 2015
#17
conventional wisdom beltway brahmins agree, no one will win the election
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#72
I'm saying it, and it was fucking bullshit 11 years ago, it's even more so now.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#75
Yep. I have no idea what I'm talking about, unlike the "experts" running her campaign.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#81
the 'subject'... in your posts? There's you trying to make lame insults and stoner jokes, Jack.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#103
Oh great play....I'm sure you're also in favor of the injection of religion into politics by the GOP
Armstead
Sep 2015
#83
I was actually quite impressed when, at a campaign stop, she happened upon a man
Doctor_J
Sep 2015
#23
Perhaps she can try faking a preacher's cadence, like she tried faking a southern accent.
LondonReign2
Sep 2015
#24
Will she be attending Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Wiccan services as well?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Sep 2015
#53
If you read between the lines of her 10 Billion dollar sop to the drug war, it includes
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#64
Golly, perfect vehicle for Clinton Family Foundation to be a middle man & skim off the top.
Divernan
Sep 2015
#68
we're supposed to ignore her ties to "The Family" like we're supposed to ignore the private prison
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#69
I just realized that the use of "faith" as equivalent to "religion" is kind of exclusive.
David__77
Sep 2015
#65
I 'get' Dominionism. And I don't want any politician who has claimed David Coe as a spiritual
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Sep 2015
#79
for many minority communities the church is more cultural than about specific beliefs
JI7
Sep 2015
#73
in north Honduras the Army has sent spies to Bible-study meetings and police interrogate people
MisterP
Sep 2015
#84
NOT UNIQUE TO HRC!!! Also in 2008, Courted by DNC...See if these names pop up in the future...
Gloria
Sep 2015
#99
The closer Sanders gets in the polls, the more Republican talking points Clinton rolls out
Doctor_J
Sep 2015
#110
In HRC's bubble world(100s of advisors/consultants) "Big Plan" changes daily.
Divernan
Sep 2015
#112