{"id":19311,"date":"2015-01-09T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19311"},"modified":"2015-01-15T12:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:49:57","slug":"rep-ellison-floor-speech-against-bill-to-weaken-dodd-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/09\/rep-ellison-floor-speech-against-bill-to-weaken-dodd-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ellison Floor Speech Against Bill to Weaken Dodd Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little video to help you realize that Elizabeth Warren is not alone in her fight against the regressives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/v5cK2QFksTk?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>I found this video in a <em>Crooks and Liars<\/em> article <a title=\"Crooks and Liars article\" href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/01\/hall-shame-30-dems-voted-yesterday-roll\" target=\"_blank\">Hall Of Shame: 35 Dems Voted Yesterday To Roll Back Dodd-Frank Provisions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the names listed, I found the following: [<strong>see retraction below<\/strong>]\n<blockquote><p>Elizabeth Esty (CT-05)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>I have been receiving a lot of email from Elizabeth Esty in this recent election season and continuing right up to January 6, 2015. I have been ignoring these emails because I am not in her district.<\/p>\n<p>I went back to my email trash and found an email where she was requesting me to vote on what were my priorities. Below is the email I sent her in response.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table class=\"moz-email-headers-table\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0 cellspacing=\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"RIGHT\" valign=\"BASELINE\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">Subject:<\/th>\n<td>Re: Your priorities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"RIGHT\" valign=\"BASELINE\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">Date:<\/th>\n<td>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:18:19 -0500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"RIGHT\" valign=\"BASELINE\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">From:<\/th>\n<td>Steven Greenberg &lt;steve@ssgreenberg.name&gt;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"RIGHT\" valign=\"BASELINE\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">To:<\/th>\n<td>administrator@elizabethesty.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<pre>I have been ignoring these emails because I am not\r\nin your district.\r\n\r\nHowever, I noticed your name in the Crooks and Liars\r\n\"Hall Of Shame: 35 Dems Voted Yesterday To Roll Back\r\nDodd-Frank Provisions\"\r\n\r\nSo don't think that these things go unnoticed.  I will\r\nwork for your defeat in the next election.\r\n\r\n\/Steve<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr style=\"border-color: #000000;\"\/>\n<p>January 15, 2015<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2015\/roll037.xml\" title=\"Official roll call votes on HR 37\" target=\"_blank\">FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 37<\/a>, Esty is recorded as voting No.<\/p>\n<p>I have posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10152999405148351&#038;comment_id=10153001772278351&#038;offset=0&#038;total_comments=5\" title=\"My apology\" target=\"_blank\">apology on Esty&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little video to help you realize that Elizabeth Warren is not alone in her fight against the regressives. I found this video in a Crooks and Liars article Hall Of Shame: 35 Dems Voted Yesterday To Roll Back Dodd-Frank Provisions Among the names listed, I found the following: [see retraction below] Elizabeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19406,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions\/19406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}