Oh, how far bank executives have fallen! Even politicians don’t want to be lumped in with their lot anymore.
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, D, her party’s nominee for Senate, doesn’t like it at all when people call her a bank executive based on her previous service at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. She — along with the newspaper reporter giving her the softball treatment here — acts like that’s some kind of misrepresentation.
[Republican Roy] Blunt’s campaign has worked to blur distinctions between the two on issues such as Wall Street connections and PAC contributions, asserting recently that Carnahan also has taken financial industry money and was “a banking executive” in Washington at the government’s Export-Import Bank.
Responding to a question, Carnahan said: “Of course, the Republicans are going to try to do the whole equivalency thing. They do it all the time, make everybody seem like a bunch of dirtbags (like) they’re all doing the same things. In fact, we’re not all doing the same things,” she said.
Note, however, that Carnahan’s official bio called her an “executive” at Ex-Im until she changed it in 2008.
Also note that working at Ex-Im, Carnahan was not doing the same thing as all the other bankers. She was specifically implementing U.S. policies that give taxpayer subsidies to American companies to help them ship their operations, and often American jobs, overseas.
Blunt’s campaign has worked to blur distinctions between the two on isssues such asWall Street connections and PAC contributions, asserting recently that Carnahan also has taken financial industry money and was “a banking executive” in Washington at the government’s Export-Import Bank.
Responding to a question, Carnahan said: “Of course, the Republicans are going to try to do the whole equivalency thing. They do it all the time, make everybody seem like a bunch of dirtbags (like) they’re all doing the same things. In fact, we’re not all doing the same things,” she said.
