Posted on 07/16/2014 1:16:08 PM PDT by cotton1706
Pick a job, any job.
Outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s career in Congress might be over, but he’s got plenty of suitors on Wall Street and in the National Republican Committee.
Cantor was recently spotted at an exclusive Hamptons party, rubbing elbows with Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfien and billionaire investor Carl Icahn, according to Politico, and seemed to be pining for a finance job in New York.
The seven-term congressman from Virginia lost his primary last month to Tea Party favorite Dave Brat. Cantor will step down from his leadership role at the end of July, but will stay in the House until his term ends in January.
He could also become Republican kingmaker if current RNC chair Reince Priebus decided to leave his post, Politico reported.
Cantor’s recent foray in the Hamptons is at least his second since his stunning reelection loss in early June. He attended a Father’s Day service at a synagogue in Westhampton Beach and boosted for Republican congressional candidate Lee Zeldin.
He’s due back in the Hamptons early next month, according to Politico.
But the defeated pol wouldn’t be the first to cash in on hefty bank bucks.
After leaving the Clinton administration in 1998, then-advisor Rahm Emanuel took a high-paying job with investing firm Wasserstein Perella — despite having no banking experience. Emanuel, who became a Congressman in 2003 and mayor of Chicago in 2011, raked in $16.2 million during his two-and-a-half-year run with the firm, according to his congressional disclosure filings.
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Eric Cantor: Showing us what he’s always been.
Cool.
After leaving the Clinton administration in 1998, then-advisor Rahm Emanuel took a high-paying job with investing firm Wasserstein Perella — despite having no banking experience. Emanuel, who became a Congressman in 2003 and mayor of Chicago in 2011, raked in $16.2 million during his two-and-a-half-year run with the firm, according to his congressional disclosure filings.
If you want to be a thief, make a lot of money, and get away with it, go into politics.
Just another GOPe scum showing it’s true colors.
Using his connections
In other news, the sun came up in the East today.
“After leaving the Clinton administration in 1998, ... Rahm Emanuel took a high-paying job with investing firm Wasserstein Perella ... raked in $16.2 million during his two-and-a-half-year run with the firm”
As Dead Fish has proven, it ain’t what you know but who you know that can put you in the 1% crowd.
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