Senator Elizabeth Warren has criticized Clinton for changing her position, when she was in the Senate, on a bankruptcy bill, elements of which were vehemently opposed by the financial industry
.. This strategy, rather than trying to meet Sanders head-on, focusses on acknowledging his good intentions and questioning whether he can deliver on his promises.
.. the heart of the Clinton message: experience, durability, practicality, and unity. These qualities may not set the pulse racing or fill basketball stadiums.
The Big Money Question at the Sanders-Clinton Debate
he threw in a line that is the nub of her defense and, in many ways, of her entire campaign: “I know this game. I’m going to stop this game.”
.. One difficulty for Clinton is that many of the voters who are drawn to Sanders—and to Donald Trump—do not believe that you can simply look at voting records and public pronouncements and understand what is going on in Washington, or in America generally. They have questions about what donors want, and may not see such inquiries as outrageous, like Clinton does. She is walking a fine line by arguing that money has a baleful influence in politics generally but has left her, personally, unaffected—Clintonian exceptionalism.
The Conservative Case for Campaign-Finance Reform
Why should conservative voters care? First, big money in politics encourages big government. Campaign contributions drive spending on earmarks and other wasteful programs — bridges to nowhere, contracts for equipment the military does not need, solar energy companies that go bankrupt on the government’s dime and for-profit educational institutions that don’t educate. When politicians are dependent on campaign money from contractors and lobbyists, they’re incapable of holding spending programs to account.
.. Politicians sometimes say they want to roll back regulations wholesale, but they rarely follow through because they know that less regulation will remove the incentive for future contributions. Some would call it extortion, but that is how the regulatory game is often played.
.. American companies are owned by, borrow money from, and do business with foreign governments, companies, sovereign wealth funds and oligarchs. Equating corporate wealth with free political speech, as the Supreme Court did in its 2010 Citizens United decision, means that global economic power will help choose our government.
Clinton postpones another financial-services fundraiser
Hillary Clinton has postponed another fundraiser with financial services executives amid heavy criticism from rival Bernie Sanders that she is too close to Wall Street.
Clinton will no longer attend an event in Boston scheduled for Friday that was to be hosted by Jonathan Lavine, managing director of Bain Capital affiliate Sankaty Advisors, sources close to the matter said.