As far as I can tell, Elizabeth Warren is the only one fighting against corporate control of Congress. Here’s her latest battle.
Warren wants Obama to fire Mary Jo White, head of the SEC, because she refuses to require corporations to list their political contributions. Warren thinks corporations should be accountable for their political contributions.
White says Warren is naive, and that if a corporation revealed who they were funding, that might lead to protests against the corporation, which would be bad for business and thus the investors. (What a horror! People protesting because corporations are buying politicians!)
I was, and still am, really, a great fan of Obama’s. What a class act. But he supports Mary Jo White and her decision. This is a man who promised to reduce/eliminate the lobbyists. But he took that money from Wall Street, and Wall Street bought itself another president.
Sigh…
