Posted on 05/13/2022 1:18:41 PM PDT by conservative98
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette says she "worked on Wall Street for many years." She's about 955 miles off.
Barnette, a conservative commentator, cited her experience on Wall Street in 2011 and 2020, and in an attack on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. "I worked 4 years on Wall Street. Would u invest money w/ someone who was filing bankruptcy?" she wrote of Trump's finances in 2016.
But Barnette's official résumé suggests she worked far from the domain of "bulls, bears, [and] people from Connecticut." She has held three jobs in the financial services industry, according to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile. She was an associate analyst at the Missouri-based A.G. Edwards from 1997 to 1999, and a financial equity analyst at "Banc of America Capital Management," her résumé says. She described the latter as a "major Wall Street firm" but worked for the company in St. Louis.
A Washington Free Beacon geographic analysis found that Wall Street is in New York City, not St. Louis. There is a Wall Street in the midwestern town, but it is largely residential.
The inconsistency emerges as Barnette faces other questions about her background. Barnette, whose surge in polls has caught opposing GOP campaigns by surprise, gave contradictory answers about whether she voted for Trump in the 2016 primary. She claimed this week she did, but said in her 2020 book, "I didn’t vote for Trump in the primaries." Barnette opposed Trump during much of the 2016 campaign, saying his moral character was "questionable," but said she joined the "Trump train" by the general election. Barnette insisted this week she voted for Trump in 2016, but the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reported she did not cast a ballot in Pennsylvania until 2018..
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there are people in the biz that puff up their self importance..and then there are those that don’t....
Yes, it is a more expansive definition—and again in an even more narrow context, such as I noted above for a conversation between Manhattanites, you would refer only to working “on Wall St” if you went to a physical office with a Wall St address. But as I also pointed out above as tech has enabled the functions of “Wall St” firms to be geographically distributed, the definition has been broadened to encompass exactly what Investopedia defines it as.
For a resume you would never describe it as such because you would rely on your specific employers and job titles and descriptions to communicate that to the other “insiders” who would be scanning your resume.
This level of semantic witch hunting, funded and driven by hard-core leftists and globaliats teying to snooker PA voters is disgusting.
It is a form of bankruptcy. Period.
Stop the false accusations.
Read the second paragraph very carefully. All you “must be in lower Manhattan by the actual street” are wrong.
While Wall Street is a physical location in Lower Manhattan, the label has become almost purely a synecdoche - since very few firms are actually still located on Wall Street proper today. Among well-known firms, only Deutsche Bank (to the best of my recollection) has its US headquarters in that location, at the iconic 60 Wall Street building. Goldman Sachs is the only other major firm still to have its headquarters in lower Manhattan, although they are half a mile or so from Wall Street, at 200 West Street.
Today, the true center of gravity for New York’s finance industry is further uptown, in an area spanning from approximately 50th Street at the southern end to about 58th Street, with the east-west span stretching from roughly Lexington Avenue to the east over to 6th Avenue to the west. Within this area of a few blocks can be found the headquarters of most of the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds and private equity firms.
“ THAT is ass backwards, Newbie!! Could be DEMONCRATS giving her all that money!”
That sure doesn’t make me feel good about her.
No longer necessarily so, as much of what you used to have to be “on Wall Street” for can now be done via tech remotely. Even the very fastest trade-beating may be done better at times over the rive in NJ.
It has been non-stop attacks on Barnette since she pulled statistically even in the polls. It seems to be effective. A close friend told me about Barnette's ties to BLM today. That's absolute bull schiff and video spliced and diced. There was a rumor that Barnette is anti-gay and anti-Muslim. As if that is a bad thing. I hope the rumor is true.
Barnette has run a positive campaign, mainly because she doesn't have any money to run negative ads. I've heard she has spent an entire $145-155k thus far. Oz has his record. Oz is well documented via his daytime TV program. He doesn't connect with me. He doesn't speak my language. He won't be getting my vote in the primary. McCormick doesn't do it for me either. I do not like his ties to China. He won't be getting my vote in the primary.
All that said, I will be voting for a Republican in the general election, no matter what.
Trump was playing both sides decades ago
Working on Wall Street has a certain connotation. I cant help it if you don’t understand that.
Working at a local shop in the midwest is not working on Wall Street and you had better not say that if you trying to get a gig in NY on Wall Street.
Another answer from somewho worked on wall street.
“It means “to have have a job with a financial services firm, typically an investment bank”.
Only in limited circumstances does it actually mean to have a physical office address on Wall Street in Manhattan, NY, USA”
You make some very good points.
There was a feeling of disingenuousness about her when I watched the debate. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but her personal story was shocking and I got the feeling that, that was what she wanted it to be. Unless her dramatic story was well known before that night, I was uncomfortable with it.
Something called putting your best foot forward
Or wearing a tie to work.
Why are you and a few others trying so hard to denigrate a fine person and candidate?
BTW; Trump ‘lost’ her 2020 congressional district also
I will back any of the big 3 against fetterman
Sure yeah whatever...some dude in Podunk USA scans articles for the Big Cheese to look at and he works on Wall Street.
Both sides seem to be embellishing.
Search for “Carreer ON Wall Street”. Almost knowable types say that means IN THE INDUSTRY, not some job in lower Manhattan.
When most have different definition than yours, guess who may be wrong?
I saw her on video saying very plainly that this country has systemic racism, sorry I was 1000% on the Kathy train she can NOT win the general NO WAY!! OZ nauseates me and McCormick is NWO all the way!! It may be time to look at the other two candidates running in this primary I know NOTHING about either of them because of the TOTAL kerfluffel over Barrett and OZ!!!
So yeah sure...while you are knocking Trump it is okay to puff yourself up to give your words gravitas.
yeah sure, you can interview for a NY gig by telling the potential boss you worked on Wall Street. he won’t think a thing when he finds out it was for a local shop in Hooterville.
She was doing background/supporting equity research for one of the largest banks in NY and the country. Doesn’t in the current environment really matter where she was located.
Political Campaign Rule Of Thumb:
The more you have to explain something the deeper your hole is! It doesn’t matter if you’re right and have done nothing wrong. First perception is the strongest at defining you.
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