According to Bloomburg, “Big donors working in finance say candidates—except Sanders and Warren—are dropping by for lunch and money.”
In February, Pete Buttigieg stepped into the Manhattan office of Wall Street veteran Charles Myers to talk politics over deli sandwiches. Citigroup Inc.Managing Director Yann Coatanlem hosted a fundraiser in March for Kamala Harris at his Fifth Avenue apartment, where she shook the paw of the banker’s labradoodle. Three days later, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Bruce Heyman raised more than $100,000 for Amy Klobuchar at his home in Chicago. He’s planning an event for Joe Biden this fall.
This tells me everything I need to know about who is running in the Democratic Primary. The parties ties to wall street have to end and we need a return to our party caring about the people over profit.
There is one notable difference. “In the past, there was no candidate who didn’t come to New York, Chicago, L.A. for money,” says Lasry. “Today, there are two candidates who aren’t doing that—Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.”
I’m tired, and I know many of you are as well, of our parties centrist approach to so much ever since Bill Clinton and the DNC moved the party to the right. Supporting a candidate who continues down this path after it’s been made abundantly clear that the Democratic Parties abandonment of the middle and lower classes in favor of the business class has ballooned support of far right populist candidates. It’s time for this to stop.