Warren donates to DNC and state Democratic parties, then slams banking bill
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Source: Washington Post
One day after the Senate voted to begin debate on scaling back the bank reforms passed after the 2008 financial crisis, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) used a speech at a Democratic National Committee gala to chide colleagues who went along with it.
“Let’s build a party that stands against Republicans trying to roll back financial reforms – every one of us – rather than help the Republicans deliver even more goodies for big banks,” Warren said at the DNC’s “I Will Vote” dinner, the kickoff of a digital-driven voter-turnout campaign.
Seventeen members of the Senate Democratic caucus had voted to advance the legislation, with moderates like Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) arguing that rules meant to rein in the biggest financial institutions were being used to choke out small banks. Warren had fought them at every step, warning in speeches and across the media that the party was doing the bidding of the people who had crashed the world economy.
On Wednesday night, Warren pointedly cited that vote in a rundown of issues Democrats needed to “pick a fight on” to win back voters who began to see them as Republicans-lite. Democrats, she said, could win back “any American whose credit information gets stolen or who gets cheated by their cable company” and simultaneously “stand up for ‘dreamers,’ ” undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, and against money in politics.
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