Subject: Fw: CITY LIMITS - De Blasio: It Doesn’t Matter What Hillary Said in Wall Street Speeches
From: "Bill de Blasio" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:59:18 +0000

I'm trying, brother, but this one is hard to defend. 

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Subject: CITY LIMITS - De Blasio: It Doesn’t Matter What Hillary Said in Wall Street Speeches
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De Blasio: It Doesn’t Matter What Hillary Said in Wall Street Speeches
CITY LIMITS - Jarrett Murphy
http://citylimits.org/2016/03/02/de-blasio-it-doesnt-matter-what-hillary-said-in-wall-street-speeches/
 
Mayor Bill de Blasio learned early in his term that delivering a message behind closed doors tends to annoy people on the other side of the threshold. His off-schedule, no-press-allowed talk to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee just 24 days into his mayoralty was pretty much the end of his honeymoon.
 
Today on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the mayor and loyal Hillary Clinton surrogate was asked whether the former secretary of state should insist that the public get to see transcripts of the controversial, highly paid speeches she made to Wall Street firms. Here was the exchange:
 
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Mayor de Blasio: Well, Wall Street needs reform to be what it should be in this country – I think that’s the bottom line. And Hillary said it very clearly, we cannot have a country where Wall Street can create the kind of problems that it did almost a decade ago. We need clearer restrictions, clearer balance – and that’s what her platform calls for. So, Wall Street plays a productive role if Wall Street cannot end up putting us into crisis again. And we're still not there – we don’t have the right approach to reigning in the excesses of Wall Street to this day. And I think it’s important to say that out loud, by the way. I've said it to Wall Street folks – they need to be a part of that reform and that change for the good of Wall Street and good of the whole country.
 
MSNBC Host Mika Brzezinski: Right. So, Mr. Mayor, this is an election of throw-the-bums out, we're sick of Washington, we're sick of the some old promises, we’re sick of them saying things but it not actually getting done on both sides of the isle.
 
Mayor: Right.
 
Brzezinski: Having said that, and hearing what you've just said about Wall Street, and what needs to be done as we move forward, should your candidate relate the transcripts of the speeches that she