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[houseofbrat]

Democratic party civil war, you say?

Matt Stoller on Kamala Harris:

There's a fair critique here of Kamala Harris skeptics. What basis do we have for skepticism? I'll lay out my views, which are largely policy-centered. I realize no one cares about what kind of leader Harris will be as President, but if there's one lesson we should take away from this moment, it's that we as a party should try to think more than five minutes ahead instead of panicking ourselves into a rushed decision. I started paying attention to Harris when she became California AG in 2010, because some friends worked to get her elected. It was in the middle of the financial crisis, Bush's and Obama's handling of which eventually led to the emergence of Trump. While AG, she had her most important test as an executive presiding over a big political economy decision - what to do about foreclosure crisis in California. Her position was unusual, because California is a big state, so the AG office is, staffed with many lawyers who can do complex finance analysis. Most states don't. There are only a few places - Texas, NY, Illinois, California - who have the capacity to truly wage independent litigation against powerful institutions like big banks. Harris pledged to do so. [Harris] pledged take on the banks and get something genuinely meaningful for homeowners for a mass legal violation called foreclosure fraud that put them on the hook for trillions. The details aren't important but if you want to know them read Dave Dayen's Chain of Title. It's something I was involved in. After two years where it became obvious Obama was on the wrong side, it was exciting to see a Democrat finally stand up.

Only, she didn't. Harris signed a sham settlement with a big fake fine number, that mostly let the banks do whatever they want, and I believe even get a tax deduction for the fines they did pay. As a result, a lot of people lost their homes who shouldn't have. That was a tragedy. But then when she was running for President in 2020, she *bragged* about what she did. It was rancid, similar to the worst of Obama. https://theintercept.com/2019/03/13/kamala-harris-mortage-crisis… Later it came out that her staff had given her memos on how she should have prosecuted (later) Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's bank OneWest, but just chose not to. It's not hard to see that, had Obama (and Harris) actually put the bad guys away, a whole slew of Trump officials would have been in jail rather than in the cabinet. https://politico.com/news/2019/10/22/kamala-harris-attorney-general-california-housing-053716…

I didn't pay as much attention to her big tech work or her time in the Senate, but she's quite close to a whole slew of people in the industry, top execs at Google and Facebook like Sheryl Sandberg. While AG, which was when these companies cemented their dominance in America, Harris's office saw Facebook as "a good actor." She took no actions against big firms as AG, opposed important legislation, and even started a privacy-related "monthly working group that included representatives from Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Kleiner Perkins. In internal documents, Harris' office referred to the companies as "partners."' Again, standard operating Obamacrat stuff. https://businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-silicon-valley-big-tech-facebook-attorney-general-2021-11…… Harris's circle of friends and family are biglaw Obamacrats. Her brother-in-law Tony West was a high-level Obama official, and now GC of Uber. Her niece worked at Uber, Slack, and FB, and her husband was a biglaw partner at Venable and DLA Piper. His clients included Walmart, Merck, and an arms dealer, and there were ethics questions since DLA Piper had a long list of foreign clients. https://nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/elections/doug-emhoff-kamala-harriss-husband-takes-a-leave-of-absence-from-his-law-firm.html…

How does this differ from Biden's track record? As a Senator, you could read him like Harris. Biden did whatever the credit card companies wanted, was in on bad trade deals, and was VP when Obama mishandled the financial crisis. But Biden always had a tinge of populism. In the 1990s, he went after Stephen Breyer in his hearing for the Supreme Court, calling him an elitist for instance. He was a foreign policy guy, and never liked the Silicon Valley and Wall Street execs, he always thought they looked down on him. As President, he delegated and ignored most domestic policy, and so some of it went to populists and union people while most of it went to neoliberals like Janet Yellen and Neera Tanden. The net result of Biden's choices is a mix - good policy in a few areas, and rank incompetence across a host of them, as well as fantastically incompetent messaging. What was Harris's role? As VP, she's largely been absent from most policy areas I follow, so I don't know how to think about her views on Biden's economic agenda. She's certainly never talked about or been involved in anything competition or regulatory minded that I can see. She does not seem to be a player in any of the big money areas. That said, Harris has proven incapable of managing important tasks like addressing or even explaining the obviously dysfunctional asylum process at the border, so it's hard to know how much she *can* actually do in terms of competence. There's also a lot of inertia here, it's not like she can change everything on a dime. She will inherit Biden's legacy and officeholders, and she hasn't done much as VP to thwart economic policy, for good or ill.

So how will she be as President? I don't want to overstate my read, it's just a guess. But since we're all just guessing, what I suspect is she'll lead to a total wipeout of Dems in 2026 and 2028 as the party turns wholly against working people, and a more complete Trump-y style realignment. And that's if she wins. So that's the optimistic scenario.

Dem Civil War commencing...

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HUD approves settlement with OneWest Bank resolving redlining allegations

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a settlement between a fair lending group and OneWest Bank that settles allegations the financial institution engaged in the discriminatory housing policy known as redlining in Southern California. The agreement… HUD approves settlement with OneWest Bank resolving redlining allegations

[votenet-blog]

Kamala Harris’ mortgage meltdown record under scrutiny as campaign heats up

Kamala Harris’ mortgage meltdown record under scrutiny as campaign heats up

Author: Joe Garofoli / Source: SFChronicle.com

Attorney General Kamala Harris held a press conference to announce an enforcement action related to a wide-ranging mortgage fraud on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at the State Building in San Francisco, Calif.

Democrats running for president are competing to see who can sound tougher toward big business, whether their target is Wall Street or Silicon…

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago US governmental requests for comment are routinely flooded by pro-corporate bots

Last year, the FCC was only able to ram through a repeal of Net Neutrality by refusing to reject the millions of comments sent by bots that used the stolen identities of regular internet users, dead people, and even sitting US Members of Congress.

It turns out the FCC isn't the only agency being flooded by bots during requests for comment -- and it's also not the only agency that doesn't seem to give a shit about being astroturfed by bots using stolen identities to influence government policy in favor of corporate agencies.

Back in 2014, the FCC was attacked by bots that tried to get it to take a position favorable to massive corporate sports leagues on the subject of "blackouts" during major-league games.

The Labor Board has been flooded by bots who wanted it to end the practice of imposing conflict-of-interest rules on retirement investment advisors (the Board weakened the requirements, allowing advisors to steer their clients towards investments decisions that they will personally benefit from).

In 2015, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency was botted, flooded with stolen-identity comments supporting the merger between Onewest and CIT banks.

All this implies that someone -- some consultancy, PR company or other "service provider" -- has developed a product that they're shopping in corporate board-rooms, offering to destroy US government agencies' public comment systems with stolen identities who support the clients' most profitable initiative. There are way too many people involved in a scam like this for it to remain a secret. Lots of people must know about this.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/05/worst-robot-uprising-ever.html

[phroyd]

This piece has been re-published to remind you of how Mnuchin made his “Fortune”.  No wonder he’s protecting Trump’s Tax Returns! - Phroyd

Democrats and housing advocates bestowed the title on Mnuchin after he was named by President Trump to serve as Treasury Secretary. They accused Mnuchin of having profited from the 2008 financial crisis by foreclosing on thousands of distressed homeowners while he was owner of housing lender IndyMac, which later was renamed OneWest.

It's an accounting Mnuchin vehemently disputes.

"I didn't make one mortgage during or prior to the mortgage crisis," said Mnuchin while testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday.

Related: Mnuchin's former bank agrees to $89 million settlement

In a heated exchange with Rep. Keith Ellison, Mnuchin brought up the moniker himself when asked about the thousands of Americans whose homes were foreclosed upon during the great recession.

"I take great offense to anybody who calls me the foreclosure king," the former Goldman Sachs banker rebuked.

Ellison then asked Mnuchin what his position was on robo-signing, a term used to refer to the improper foreclosure practices.

"I don't think you even know what the definition of robo-signing is," Mnuchin quipped.

"You don't know what I know," Ellison punched back.

Related: California investigators wanted to sue Mnuchin bank

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the panel, interjected to ask if Chairman Jeb Hensarling "Would like to give the secretary an opportunity to apologize to Mr. Ellison?"

But Mnuchin refused to bite. "I'm not apologizing to anybody because robo-signing is not a legal term and I was being harassed."

The exchange was just one of several testy moments captured throughout Thursday's hearing, demonstrating Democrats increasing frustrations with the Trump administration.

At the outset of the three-hour hearing, Hensarling read out the rules of decorum to members of the committee on how to treat witnesses.

It was a life preserver to Mnuchin, who was quick to cite those rules while Waters pressed him on why she hadn't received a response from him on her request for information on the president's financial ties to Russia.

Related: House Democrats press Treasury to divulge any Trump-Russia financial ties

"Mr. Chairman, I thought when you read the rules you acknowledged that I shouldn't be interrupted and that I would have [time]," he said.

That prompted Waters to retort: "What he [Hensarling] failed to tell you was you're on my time. I can reclaim it. He left that out, so I'm reclaiming my time."

But that didn't seem to stop their skirmish from boiling over.

"Perhaps Mr. Chairman I don't understand the rules because I thought I was allowed to answer questions," Mnuchin said speaking over Waters, who shouted "Reclaiming my time!"

Waters is leading a group of House Democrats who have requested Treasury Department to disclose any financial ties between Russia and President Trump, his family and allies. They sent a letter dated May 23 to Treasury requesting information, which has gone unanswered.

Mnuchin eventually replied that his general counsel had spoken to Waters' office yesterday.

"You did not respond. You left a message," said Waters. "Let's keep going."

CNNMoney (Washington)First published July 27, 2017: 4:59 PM ET

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