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Duckfan

(1,268 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:10 AM Oct 2015

This Just In From the, "I'm Not Surprised Department."

Bush, Clinton are Wall Street's favorites, donations show
Reuters By Emily Flitter
5 hours ago

By Emily Flitter
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeb Bush is leading the U.S. presidential campaign by at least one measure: financial support from Wall Street.

The former Florida governor who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination received more financial backing than any competitor - Democrat or Republican - from employees of the major Wall Street banks between July and the end of September, campaign filings released on Thursday show.

Employees from Bank of America , Citigroup , Credit Suisse , Goldman Sachs , HSBC , JPMorgan Chase , Morgan Stanley and UBS gave Bush a combined $107,000. He also received the maximum-allowed $2,700 from billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman.

The sums are miniscule compared to Bush's total haul for the quarter of $13.4 million. But his popularity among financiers is starkly different from his standing in the multitude of national polls.

Bush, seen as a moderate in the crowded Republican field where 14 candidates are competing for the nomination, trails Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, three candidates who have never held elected office, in every major poll.

The second most popular candidate on Wall Street according to giving patterns is Democratic front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She took in nearly $84,000 from employees of the same banks.


http://news.yahoo.com/bush-clinton-wall-streets-favorites-donations-show-063758748--sector.html

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This Just In From the, "I'm Not Surprised Department." (Original Post) Duckfan Oct 2015 OP
Maybe Hillary will tell them to "cut it out." Scuba Oct 2015 #1
LOL! Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #2
Or put them in time out n/t hibbing Oct 2015 #4
Wall St. Can't Wait To Get Their Hands On All That Social Security Money...... global1 Oct 2015 #3
In before "the donations came from bank tellers!!!" (nt) jeff47 Oct 2015 #5

global1

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3. Wall St. Can't Wait To Get Their Hands On All That Social Security Money......
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:26 AM
Oct 2015

because both Hillary and Jeb will let SS die.

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