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brooklynite

(94,591 posts) Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:09 PM Dec 2019

Inside the Secret List of Demands Warren Gave Hillary

Politico

In December 2014, Clinton’s team began worrying that Warren was reconsidering a presidential run and arranged a meeting between the two principals at Clinton’s home in Washington.

Warren came in “aggressive” and “firing on all cylinders” catching Clinton off guard, said a Clinton official familiar with the meeting. She pressed Clinton to commit to not appointing Wall Street-friendly people to her administration, as Warren felt Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had done.

After the meeting, Warren sent Clinton a list of people she wanted the campaign team to consult on economic policy in order to broaden their horizons beyond people like Robert Rubin and Michael Froman, high-ranking officials in the Bill Clinton and Obama administrations who had also worked at Citigroup.

The list, recompiled by POLITICO based on the accounts of those involved, included a hodgepodge of sometimes obscure liberal academics and economists including MIT’s Simon Johnson, UConn’s James Kwak, Columbia’s Joseph Stiglitz, Vanderbilt’s Ganesh Sitaraman (policy director for Warren’s 2012 campaign), University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi, U.C. Irvine’s Katie Porter and Vermont Law School’s Jennifer Taub. The progressive think-tank types included Demos’ Heather McGhee; public servants who had clashed with the Obama administration included former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Sheila Bair and longtime Senate aide Elise Bean. AFL-CIO policy director Damon Silvers represented unions.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Inside the Secret List of Demands Warren Gave Hillary (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2019 OP

When a president-elect starts naming his cabinet prior to the inauguration.... EarnestPutz Dec 2019 #1

The emoji is created when... brooklynite Dec 2019 #3

Thanks. I think that I may have done this before, asked the same... EarnestPutz Dec 2019 #8

Happens all the time. blm Dec 2019 #9

Your assumption about my age is exactly right. Heh. EarnestPutz Dec 2019 #17

I know DU and its blm Dec 2019 #18

good for her janterry Dec 2019 #2

This! eom BlueMTexpat Dec 2019 #4

YES! Thanks to brook for posting. Warren enhanced Clinton's policy blm Dec 2019 #7

Makes me like Warren even more! Fiendish Thingy Dec 2019 #5

What a great article. Warren really is the best candidate on economic policy and blm Dec 2019 #6

:) And yes, they BOTH wanted Warren to be HRC's running mate. Hortensis Dec 2019 #10

Clinton team should never have feared a 2 woman ticket. blm Dec 2019 #11

:) Hindsight showing them in the WH, is it? Hortensis Dec 2019 #12

Warren policies will SAVE capitalism from the greedy predators who have sickened it. blm Dec 2019 #13

Yes, they're a little more accepting of her now. Hortensis Dec 2019 #14

Patriotic Millionaires has been a good front line for her. blm Dec 2019 #15

:) The patriotic's the key part. Hortensis Dec 2019 #16

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)

1. When a president-elect starts naming his cabinet prior to the inauguration....

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:21 PM

Dec 2019

....it can be a time of great excitement and anticipation (like Kennedy's "best and the brightest&quot or it can engender a real feeling of dread (Ronald Reagan's corp of angry old men). Candidates seldom (never?) talk about who they would put in their cabinet, out of an abundance of caution in avoiding controversy no doubt. But if Elizabeth Warren's list of movers and shakers is any cause for hope in her future as President, she has my vote.

On edit: I didn't put in that happy face emoji and it's not in this text I'm editing. I'm fine with it, but why is it here?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

brooklynite

(94,591 posts)

3. The emoji is created when...

Reply to EarnestPutz (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:27 PM

Dec 2019

you combine a quotation mark and and closed parentheses, which is short-hand for a smilie face...Put a space between the two and it'll come out correctly.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)

8. Thanks. I think that I may have done this before, asked the same...

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 06:44 PM

Dec 2019

....question, been educated in the ways of the keyboard and forgot the lesson. I'll probably forget this time too, but thanks for helping.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

blm

(113,063 posts)

9. Happens all the time.

Reply to EarnestPutz (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 11:29 AM

Dec 2019

Especially some of us of a certain age. Heh.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)

17. Your assumption about my age is exactly right. Heh.

Reply to blm (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 07:11 PM

Dec 2019

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

blm

(113,063 posts)

18. I know DU and its

Reply to EarnestPutz (Reply #17)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 07:18 PM

Dec 2019

demographics. Heh. I fit right in there.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

janterry

(4,429 posts)

2. good for her

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:21 PM

Dec 2019

n/t

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)

4. This! eom

Reply to janterry (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:33 PM

Dec 2019

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

blm

(113,063 posts)

7. YES! Thanks to brook for posting. Warren enhanced Clinton's policy

Reply to janterry (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 03:58 PM

Dec 2019

Platform.

Warren for the win.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Fiendish Thingy

(15,622 posts)

5. Makes me like Warren even more!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 02:01 PM

Dec 2019

She was walking the walk even behind the scenes when she wasn't running herself.

(And promoting Katie Porter before she was a household name!)

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

blm

(113,063 posts)

6. What a great article. Warren really is the best candidate on economic policy and

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 03:40 PM

Dec 2019

certainly impressed those values on a powerhouse like Clinton.

That greatly improved Clinton’s platform.

No wonder when Biden wanted to run a 2016 campaign he asked Warren to run with him as VP.

Clinton was smart to listen to Warren.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

10. :) And yes, they BOTH wanted Warren to be HRC's running mate.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 12:30 PM

Dec 2019

It's Warren's nature to be passionate about her beliefs and goals. And it's also policy wonk Hillary's nature to be passionate about her beliefs and goals, just loving to explain what she wants to accomplish with lots of detail instead of arm waving.

WE know they had a great many passions and goals in common and were good together.

Same for VP Biden, btw, who in 2015 had one person in mind for HIS running mate if he ran: Warren.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

blm

(113,063 posts)

11. Clinton team should never have feared a 2 woman ticket.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #10)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 12:39 PM

Dec 2019

I think Clinton had very real appreciation for Warren’s passion and commitment to policy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

12. :) Hindsight showing them in the WH, is it?

Reply to blm (Reply #11)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 12:52 PM

Dec 2019

Some of us were thrilled by the two of them on the stump, but even here on DU a lot weren't.
Fact is, a lot of people didn't like a 1-women ticket, and of course not a 2-woman.

And it didn't help that business and finance had gotten downright silly about Warren and promised scorched earth if she was chosen. There are a lot of votes among economic moderates.
We wanted them.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

blm

(113,063 posts)

13. Warren policies will SAVE capitalism from the greedy predators who have sickened it.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #12)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 01:00 PM

Dec 2019

Honorable financial industry figures have acknowledged this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/elizabeth-warren-i-am-a-capitalist-but-markets-need-rules.html

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

14. Yes, they're a little more accepting of her now.

Reply to blm (Reply #13)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 01:06 PM

Dec 2019

But all Democratic Party plans have saving capitalism, the wonderful engine that could, as an imperative while putting our regulatory chains back on and creating a vigorous but nation-enriching business environment.

We're not nuts, Blm. We are intrinsically progressive economically and socially, and Warren's one of us. At least she has been since she became a Democrat and threw herself into it Warren-style.