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TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR ALEX SINK AND PRESIDENT OBAMA
TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR ALEX SINK AND PRESIDENT OBAMA
Tallahassee, FL – Today, McCollum for Governor Campaign Manager Matt Williams issued the following statement regarding Alex Sink’s continued failure to address the tough questions on the minds of Florida voters:
“Less than two weeks ago, President Obama made clear that bankers ‘don’t need another vote in the United States Senate’, and continued to rail on the banking industry just last evening in his State of the Union address. If President Obama doesn’t believe bankers should be representing their states in Congress, how does he feel about one running a state?”
“As Alex Sink joins President Obama this afternoon, just one day after denying she was in lock step with the agenda of Washington Democrats, she will have tough questions to answer on her own history as a banker who took millions in salary and bonuses while eliminating jobs for 7,000 hardworking Floridians.
“Most notably, as she stands with the titular head of the Democratic Party, Alex Sink may actually have to take a position on the unpopular liberal agenda advocated by the same Washington politicians she has bankrolled with campaign contributions for years.”
BACKGROUND:
• “Let me be clear: Bankers don’t need another vote in the United States Senate. They’ve got plenty.” (WHITEHOUSE.GOV, “Remarks by the President at Event with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley,” 1/17/10)
• “President Barack Obama invoked the latest political insult to the financial industry when he appeared with Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts two days before her U.S. Senate loss. ‘Bankers don’t need another vote in the United States Senate — they’ve got plenty,’ he said Jan. 17 in Boston, signaling a broader strategy to tie Republicans to Wall Street greed.” (BLOOMBERG NEWS, “Banking Past Haunts Obama Friend Who Wants His Old Senate Seat,” 1/17/10)
• “As a result, the markets are now stabilized, and we have recovered most of the money we spent on the banks. To recover the rest, I have proposed a fee on the biggest banks. I know Wall Street isn’t keen on this idea, but if these firms can afford to hand out big bonuses again, they can afford a modest fee to pay back the taxpayers who rescued them in their time of need. (WHITEHOUSE.GOV, “Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address,” 1/27/10)
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