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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn interesting suggestion for VP pick: Rich Cordray.
Cordray is currently the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) the agency closely associated with the rise to prominence of Elizabeth Warren, who suggested its creation. When it became clear the Senate would not confirm Warren if Abraham Lincoln returned to testify for her, Cordray got the job.
He has successfully built the CFPB into an agency that fights for consumers against the largest financial institutions in the world. It has returned billions to consumers in enforcement actions for deceptive conduct; it has written rules to make mortgage lending safer and fairer, and it has been innovative and efficient in designing new ways to aid individual consumers hoping to resolve disputes with banks.
Wall Street has made eliminating or debilitating the CFPB its priority. Not coincidentally, wiping out the CFPB is on the announced shortlist of the Republican agenda.
Unlike Warren herself, adding Cordray to the ticket would not leave open a critical seat in the Senate to be filled by a Republican governor.
He has successfully built the CFPB into an agency that fights for consumers against the largest financial institutions in the world. It has returned billions to consumers in enforcement actions for deceptive conduct; it has written rules to make mortgage lending safer and fairer, and it has been innovative and efficient in designing new ways to aid individual consumers hoping to resolve disputes with banks.
Wall Street has made eliminating or debilitating the CFPB its priority. Not coincidentally, wiping out the CFPB is on the announced shortlist of the Republican agenda.
Unlike Warren herself, adding Cordray to the ticket would not leave open a critical seat in the Senate to be filled by a Republican governor.
More here: http://www.startribune.com/hillary-clinton-s-vp-pick-should-be-rich-cordray/383350551/
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An interesting suggestion for VP pick: Rich Cordray. (Original Post)
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2016
OP
I like Rich Cordray, but not sure he has enough clout and name recognition to
No Vested Interest
Jun 2016
#4
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,523 posts)1. He is a good man.
WCGreen knew him, and always spoke highly of him, his intelligence and his ethics.
But we'd have to clone him so his twin would continue running the CFPB.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)2. no.....we need to be totally superficial here. We need someone
young and hip and cool.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)3. No we need him in there so the agency can pass rules nt
No Vested Interest
(5,164 posts)4. I like Rich Cordray, but not sure he has enough clout and name recognition to
positively affect the Ohio vote by virtue of being an Ohioan.