Hillary Clinton became millionaire because of Wall Street

Wall Street has made Hillary Clinton a millionaire.

As Clinton tries to talk tough about how she will stand up to America's biggest banks, her Democratic rivals are likely to remind voters just how cozy she's been with Wall Street.

Clinton made $3.15 million in 2013 alone from speaking to firms like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and UBS, according to the list her campaign released of her speaking fees.

Hillary Clinton

"Her closeness with big banks on Wall Street is sincere, it's heart-felt, long-established and well known," former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has said on the campaign trail.

While Clinton has given paid speeches to many groups, Wall Street banks and investment houses made up a third of her speech income.

She even made more money speaking to UBS and Goldman Sachs than her husband Bill did. Goldman Sachs in New York paid Bill $200,000 for a speech in June 2013 and Hillary $225,000 for a speech in October of that year.

Clinton's Wall Street ties likely to be debate issue

"If the other candidates want to make this an issue, they've got plenty of material," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

Sabato predicts O'Malley or Jim Webb are more likely to go negative on Clinton in the CNN debate Tuesday, but even Bernie Sanders may be able to take a sideswipe when it comes to Wall Street.

Sanders has been outspoken that the big banks are still "too big to fail" and should be broken up.

Clinton's anti-Wall Street policies stop far short of that, with proposals to tax short-term trading and impose a "risk fee" on big banks with assets over $50 billion.

Wall Street's reaction to her plan to regulation big banks was mostly a sigh of relief.

"We continue to believe Clinton would be one of the better candidates for financial firms," one analyst wrote.

Wall Street has been a top supporter of Clinton's career

As a former senator from New York, it is not surprising that Hillary Clinton would have a close connection to the financial world. But Wall Street continues to be a big contributor to her political career.

In her 2008 run for president, JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C)and Morgan Stanley (MS)employees were among her top campaign contributors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Tabulating campaign contributions for her entire senate political career shows that four of the top five her contributors are Wall Street banks (Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley).

In contrast, Sander's career campaign contribution list is almost entirely made up of union groups.

Republicans likely to have even more Wall Street ties

Clinton has tried to re-cast herself in this campaign. She shunned Manhattan for her campaign headquarters, opting to locate in hip Brooklyn.

She also did not list out where her speaking fees came from on her 2014 tax return, although she made about the same overall for speeches -- around $10 million -- as she did in 2013.

Still, her ties to big banks could be a problem in the Democratic primary, making it more difficult for her to appeal to the far left of her party. But if she becomes the Democratic candidate, her banking connections probably won't be as big of a deal on Election Day.

"The GOP candidate is likely to have even more time with, and donations from, Wall Street," says Sabato.

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Miss Tourism International Rizzini Alexis Gomez is Dead

Miss Tourism International Rizzini Alexis Gomez died because of lung cancer. She is 25 years old.

Former beauty queen Rizzini Alexis Gomez passed away on Tuesday at the age of 25 due to lung cancer.

 

She is the daughter of former Alaska guard and University of Cebu coach Roehl Gomez, who confirmed the news to friends in the basketball community.

 

The younger Gomez was named Miss Tourism during the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2012 grand coronation night before winning the Miss Tourism International title that year.

Later, she served as muse for Alaska for the PBA's opening ceremonies in 2013. Shortly afterwards, she was diagnosed with cancer.

 

Through former Roehl's former teammate Jojo Lastimosa, PBA stars came together last week for a benefit game in part to help out with her medical bills. 

 

Lastimosa's wife Butchik told GMA News Online that Rizzini was brought to the intensive care unit on Monday. They received sad news of her demise in the morning.

 

Rizzini's ordeal came as a surprise to those close to her family.

 

"Parang aggressive yung cancer ni Rizzi, it spread fast," said Butchik, who added that the beauty queen had just turned 25 last August. 

 

In 2012, Rizzini was featured on Saksi after her victory in the international pageant.

 

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Miriam will run for President in 2016

Miriam ran for president in 1992 and lost to Fidel Ramos with narrow margin.

But many believed that Ramos cheated her because she was unbeatable that year and number one in many survey.

She won in voting but lost in counting as most of the voters said.

It only cost a one night electric power black out and her leading score was surpassed by Ramos votes.

During that time lots of character assassination were thrown at her like she was branded as lunatic.

Mud slinging is very popular during election plus vote buying.

Ramos was endorsed by the mother of current president Pnoy Aquino.

 Will she win this time?

Will destiny favor her as she should have won in 1992?

Only time will tell.

As for me she is the most qualified to run for president compared to Binay who is surrounded by many bad accusation like plunder and etc.

Grace Poe who is un-experience and only banking to the famous name of her adopted father the late Fernando Poe Jr.

 Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Tuesday said she will run for president in the 2016 elections. 

Asked by reporters if she will file her certificate of candidacy for the presidency this week, Santiago answered a simple “yes.”

 She added that her running mate is someone who has already declared his or her candidacy.

 Santiago said the Philippines will be a “much better country” if she will become president in the “near future.”

 “If I become president some time in the very near future, this country will be much better than it was before.

Today, this country suffers from the malaise of plunder.

Plunder is when you look at a person and the person looks at you and you feel like eating each other up.

It’s like cancer,” said Santiago, who is currently on medical leave at the Senate for battling Stage 4 lung cancer.

 “The one thing bad about cancer is it tends to eat up its neighbor,” she added.

Santiago said she will try “to make this country better” through her faith and with the help of fellow Filipinos.

“So we will try to make this country better simply by trusting in the Lord, trusting in yourself—trusting that you yourself may lead in God’s great heaven where we know He loves,” the senator added.

 Santiago made the statement during the meet-and-greet and book signing event for “Stupid is Forevermore,” the sequel to her best-selling collection of witty pick-up lines, jokes and anecdotes “Stupid is Forever.”

 In a Facebook post last week, Santiago hinted through a quote graphics that she may vie for the presidency in next year’s polls:“I am not going to be coy.

Society leaders have have urged me to seek the presidency. I can rise to the occasion.”

 She also uploaded in her Facebook account a video clip of her speech during her 1992 presidential run, where she lost to former president Fidel V. Ramos in a hotly contested race.

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