This is a very reassuring interview about the recent settlement between five large banks and the Attorneys General of many of the states.

In closing Eric Scheiderman in explaining why this aggressive stance on investigating the banks did not happen earlier in the Obama administration, said the following:

What we have seen is a swing toward progressive populism in this country.

You wouldn’t have imagined a year ago, but the demand for accountability that animated the occupy movement would have taken place.
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A lot of progressives forget about this. It’s not who you elect. It’s providing the movement to empower them to do the right thing. The conservatives don’t forget that. They don’t go home after election day. They never go home. We’ve got to have a little bit of that same attitude.

This is something that I have been trying to emphasize on this blog.

To send a note of thanks to New York AG Eric Schneiderman use this link to the Bold Progressives web site.