Bull Market: Barnette Appears To Have Fudged Wall Street Career

Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 13, 2022 3:15 pm | Chuck Ross

[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..

[Maris Crane]

That’s a shame.

I think he would make a great senator.

And from what I read here, this Fedderman might be the one he could beat.

I won’t go into how many have lost and won a second time.

We have at least one very famous example.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I would not expect the Beacon to be so juvenile in their argumentation. They come across like nitpicking lefties.

[Ace's Dad]

As a reservist you can be assigned to an active duty position, but while officially in a Reservist capacity (or NG), you’re on “ACDUTRA” status. I believe that’s correct.

Maybe in the Guard or Army. I'm Navy. I've done ACDUTRA; usually it's a school. Sorry for the confusion.