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November 8, 2010 | Elizabeth Warren, federal legislation | Comments (1)Some people are not pleased:
This is a joke. Politico is floating the idea that notorious Wall Street crony Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., could be tapped to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, if she loses her close election with Republican Joe Walsh. Even for Politico’s rumor-mill, this is pretty funny stuff—only slightly less absurd than suggesting that Alan Greenspan might be picked to head the new agency.
Alan Greenspan’s too old.
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From the Northwest Herald as of 4:12pm Nov. 9th:
“The fate of the 8th Congressional District seat remains up to potentially hundreds of absentee votes still to be counted next week.
With nearly all absentee votes in from Cook County, Republican challenger Joe Walsh leads U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Barrington, by about 350 votes.
“It’s been an amazing week,” Walsh said in a statement to voters. “One week removed from Election Night, we remain absolutely confident in our victory.”
Officials say they won’t finish counting votes until Nov. 16, the deadline for when absentee ballots must arrive…………about 500 absentee ballots there that were requested by voters have not yet been returned.”