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To: Sully- who wrote (77360)	2/9/2010 1:35:41 AM
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Hope and Change: Wall Street abandoning Obama and Democrats By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer beltway-confidential 02/08/10 12:08 PM EST The New York Times: <<< If the Democratic Party has a stronghold on Wall Street, it is JPMorgan Chase. Its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, is a friend of President Obama’s from Chicago, a frequent White House guest and a big Democratic donor. Its vice chairman, William M. Daley, a former Clinton administration cabinet official and Obama transition adviser, comes from Chicago’s Democratic dynasty. But this year Chase’s political action committee is sending the Democrats a pointed message. While it has contributed to some individual Democrats and state organizations, it has rebuffed solicitations from the national Democratic House and Senate campaign committees. Instead, it gave $30,000 to their Republican counterparts. The shift reflects the hard political edge to the industry’s campaign to thwart Mr. Obama’s proposals for tighter financial regulations. Just two years after Mr. Obama helped his party pull in record Wall Street contributions — $89 million from the securities and investment business, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics — some of his biggest supporters, like Mr. Dimon, have become the industry’s chief lobbyists against his regulatory agenda. >>> Electorally, this does not bode well for Democrats. But given the deplorable way that Wall Street firms have behaved in the last few years, I'm not sure funneling their contributions and lobbying cash toward Republicans necessarily a good thing for the GOP either. washingtonexaminer.com