{"id":2885,"date":"2010-09-15T00:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2010-09-15T00:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:40:53","slug":"oregons-merkley-backs-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/oregons-merkley-backs-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon&rsquo;s Merkley Backs Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Just about every time Jeff Merkley opens his mouth, I feel gratified over the volunteer time I spent on his campaign, helping to unseat the incumbent, Gordon Smith, the Republican who was progressive, but only when it didn\u2019t matter.&#160; In this editorial, Jeff earned his pay for the day.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"15Merkley\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15Merkley\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/15Merkley.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/> For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families. This is insane. <strong>Our policies should build the wealth and success of families, not undermine them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why one of the most important provisions of the Wall Street reform bill was the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). <strong>For years, American families have been taken to the cleaners by clever clauses written into fine print and legal gobbledy-gook<\/strong>. The CFPB will change this. Finally, there will be a cop on the beat who can make sure people get a fair shake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This new consumer watchdog will only be effective, however, if it has strong leadership<\/strong>. <strong>There is no doubt in my mind that Elizabeth Warren is that leader<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeff-merkley\/elizabeth-warren-is-the-r_b_717010.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about every time Jeff Merkley opens his mouth, I feel gratified over the volunteer time I spent on his campaign, helping to unseat the incumbent, Gordon Smith, the Republican who was progressive, but only when it didn\u2019t matter.&#160; In this editorial, Jeff earned his pay for the day. For too long, tricks and traps <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/oregons-merkley-backs-warren\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}