{"id":191650,"date":"2009-07-15T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/15\/we-now-know-why-rattner-left-the-auto-task-force\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:43:00","slug":"we-now-know-why-rattner-left-the-auto-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/15\/we-now-know-why-rattner-left-the-auto-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"We Now Know Why Rattner Left the Auto Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/31897897\">he is more closely tied into the state pension plan pay for play scandal<\/a> than had been previously indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Big surprise.  You hire a merger and acquisition <del>scum bag<\/del> specialist who maked his money on buying up companies, juicing the stocks by making draconian cuts, and then flipping them, and then you have to get rid of him because he turns out to be&#8230;.well&#8230;.a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">scum bag<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>So shocked.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I realize why he got the job in the first place (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Rattner\">from the Wiki<\/a>), &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rattner is married to Maureen White, the former <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party<\/span><\/span>,&#8221; which means that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">she<\/span> specialized in raising lots of money from her rich friends, so there was an element of pay-for-play in his getting this assignment in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that he is more closely tied into the state pension plan pay for play scandal than had been previously indicated. Big surprise. You hire a merger and acquisition scum bag specialist who maked his money on buying up companies, juicing the stocks by making draconian cuts, and then flipping them, and then you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1094,970,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}