{"id":194763,"date":"2008-08-20T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/penny-pritzker-needs-to-stfu\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:05:00","slug":"penny-pritzker-needs-to-stfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/penny-pritzker-needs-to-stfu\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Pritzker Needs to STFU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Pritzker, Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign finance chairwoman was, as I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=pritzker\">noted earlier<\/a>, chairman of the board for Superior Bank of Chicago, the bank that pioneered the subprime and predatory loans as a business model, that collapsed in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that at some point this will become an issue, but to the degree that she invites reporters to cover her, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=axiK.6j1c3IY\">as she clearly does here<\/a>, she makes it even more likely.<\/p>\n<p>The article is innocuous enough, it really is quite favorable, but it raises her public profile, which makes her a more likely target.<\/p>\n<p>Given the current state of affairs in banking and housing, I cannot imagine <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anyone<\/span><span>, in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">any<\/span> campaign, who would not use her background against any campaign with which she was associated.<\/p>\n<p>She needs to keep her head down.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Pritzker, Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign finance chairwoman was, as I&#8217;ve noted earlier, chairman of the board for Superior Bank of Chicago, the bank that pioneered the subprime and predatory loans as a business model, that collapsed in 2001. It&#8217;s likely that at some point this will become an issue, but to the degree that she &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1094,1004,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-finance","category-finance","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194763"}],"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=194763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}