Following up on the conversation this morning about needing more arrows in
our quiver on Wall Street, I wanted to float one idea. In October 2014,
HRC did a paid speech in NYC for Deutsche Bank. I wrote her a long riff
about economic fairness and how the financial industry has lost its way,
precisely for the purpose of having something we could show people if ever
asked what she was saying behind closed doors for two years to all those
fat cats. It's definitely not as tough or pointed as we would write it
now, but it's much more than most people would assume she was saying in
paid speeches. (Full transcript is attached and key riff is pasted below.)
Perhaps at some point there will be value in sharing this with a reporter
and getting a story written. Upside would be that when people say she's too
close to Wall Street and has taken too much money from bankers, we can
point to evidence that she wasn't afraid to speak truth to power. Downside
would be that we could then be pushed to release transcripts from all her
paid speeches, which would be less helpful (although probably not
disastrous). In the end, I'm not sure this is worth doing, but wanted to
flag it so you know it's out there.
