Posted on 02/04/2016 5:54:04 AM PST by xzins
According to recent FEC filings, top political donors at Goldman Sachs shifted their giving to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% in the last three months of last year.
Jeb Bush had been the top recipient of donations from the Wall Street investment bank. Donations to Bush shrank to a trickle as his campaign faded.
The most recent filing covers contributions and expenses between October and December. Marco Rubio’s campaign received $107,000 from Goldman Sachs executives. This number likely does not include donations to various Super PACs tied to Rubio’s candidacy.
One of the bank’s lobbyists, Joseph Wall, is a campaign bundler for Rubio. Bundlers collect donations from a variety of sources on behalf of the campaign.
In contrast, Jeb Bush’s campaign received just $2,950 from Goldman donors in the final three months of year. Prior to the fourth quarter, though, Goldman executives had donated $773,000 to Bush campaign accounts. Except for Cruz, Rubio and Bush, all other Republicans candidates received less than $19,000 from the bank in all of last year.
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Why did Cruz want to up the H1B visas? Got anything to do with his campaign chair’s wife’s firm? Well, we will never know.
“Trump isn’t owned by them.”
No, he’s the equivalent of them. Prior to running for President, buying politicians. Guess we aren’t against that anymore now that it’s Trump.
Trump owns up to it.
Cruz pretends to be an outsider.
“Trump owns up to it.”
So he owns up to buying politicians. That makes it all just fine then. SMFH!!
So in other words, the worst possible scenario. Ok, I get it.
Free market dogmatism. You see a lot of that here as well. I don't think everyone who favors globalism is in the pay of big banks. Some are just suckers who believe the big bank shills AKA economists.
Cruz is honest by lawyer standards, which isn't what mere mortals mean by honest. It's an occupational hazard. It depends on what the meaning of "is: is.
“I don’t think everyone who favors globalism is in the pay of big banks”
Does political nepotism count?
Where there is life, there is hope. ~ Terri Schiavo
May God forgive us, Byker.
From what I understand, Cruz got a loan from Goldman which he took out against his total investment he had with them that was around a million.
That is different from any of these other guys.
483k to Bush and only 43k to Cruz?
Tea Party members were already played for fools by Marco... we’ve got his number.
Get ready for him again.
We’re killing each other and he’ll step into the void.
Rubio is in 3rd place all the time. Why give him money?
Do they know something we don’t?
And whats wrong with Club for Growth?
Understood, but the narrative is that Cruz is a shill for Goldman because he took a loan, so he must be owned by the big banks of wall street.
Trump himself has said as much...
Its nonsense really. All of it is. Its distraction. Keep people from focusing on the real issues, like the fact that Donald Trump once again called for universal healthcare this past Sunday, or that he has a VERY long record of being a liberal RAT who recently switched positions when politically convenient. Or to further distract from the fact that Rubio was a backstabbing traitor to the Tea Party and instantly became buddy buddy with the GOPe and other establishment characters.
We need to focus on issues and policy differences between these men, and why we should support or turn away from various ones due to their policies and positions (current and historical) so we can return the Constitution to the authority it has in order to ensure the future of the republic for generations to come.
Banksters trYing to get bail out friendly candidate.
Totally agree. That is a lot like herding cats.
We gotta keep our eyes on which cat emerges as the best shepherd.
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