McCain Floats New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo As SEC Chair

Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general of New York State, has been getting a lot of attention on Wall Street lately, making comments that liken short-sellers to "looters after a hurricane" and extracting big settlements from financial firms that sold auction-rate securities.

In doing so, he's apparently also caught the eye of John McCain, the Republican nominee to be the next president.

As reported on our sibling blog, The Caucus, Mr. McCain told "60 Minutes" Sunday night that if elected, he would consider making Mr. Cuomo -- a Democrat who was the secretary of housing in the Clinton administration -- the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Comments

[Stpblogger]

Cuomo is a deceptive bully who threatens women secretly for personal meglamaniac reasons. He needs to be investigated for threatening and harassing my friend Denise, a yoga teacher. He blocked an attorney, Alfonso DeCicco, from advising her on keeping her apt so she lost it, he buried her credit card fraud case being investigated by Detective Paul Arroyo at Precinct 28, and he pressured her HMO doctor Elizabeth Uchitelle over an $87 reimbursement so this helped the doctor to decide to close her doors and go some where else. Out of fear of holding there jobs and businesses they may not say anything, but she still has the paper work and voice mails proving they were once working with her. Cuomo scrambles now to cover his tracks, but too little too late. I urge this woman to come forward and tell the truth about his strong arm procedures behind closed doors. Cuomo seems to believe its okay for him to operate above the law privately for personal reasons. Shine the light on this man now! Let's have honest full disclosure.

[Stpblogger]

Correction regarding Cuomo's secret misogynistic behavior which still continues to live on: Detective Paul Arroyo is with Precinct 24.

[ReelBusy]

It's all about the McCain "Economy" now isn't it?

MCCAIN & PALIN in BEAUTY & the BEAST
Featuring the McCain Economy Chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiItoHftv4A

[darthdarcy]

The New York Attorney Generals Office here under Cuomo is lame, they won't even go after highly criminal attorney's who have robbed hundreds of thousands from people here in this area including town government..!

He just ignores so many criminal acts by either Republicans Democrats and or attorneys...I have direct knowledge of this multiple instances...

Maybe that's why McCain wants him..!

[Graywolf48]

I'm curious to hear what Cuomo has to say about this. Has he made any comment? Would he want to be involved in the toxic environment a McCain/Palin administration is sure to be? I'll wait till I hear what Cuomo has to say about his new potential job appointment before I say anything else.

[timberdoodle]

Unfortunately for John McCain the players in his economic farm team are very sparse with only two right wing choices being Carly or Phil Gramm so he has to name a Democrat as a possible choice but one that wouldn't come to reality after he was elected.

The conservative philosophy hasn't changed as only the present day circumstances have changed that don't allow McCain to continue promoting his and his party'seconomic beliefs. Anyone buying into the new McCain rhetoric will be buying into the bridge to no where.

[Smirk]

SFW! Let me guess, this is another exercise in "personality politics" and we're supposed to be impressed with McCain as a "maverick" for being willing to appoint a Democrat and Cuomo as a knight in shining armour who will drive the bad guys away next year. How pathetic.

[dhertzfe]

From Bloomberg:

While Republicans say Timmons is making plans for the transition if McCain wins in November, the campaign wouldn't confirm his role.

Timmons & Co., whose founder and chairman emeritus is William Timmons Sr., was registered to lobby for Freddie Mac from 2000 through THIS MONTH, when the federal government took over both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Newly available congressional records show Timmons's firm received $260,000 this year before its lobbying activities were barred under terms of the government rescue of the failed mortgage giant.

Where is the capability to make sound decisions putting country first rather than getting elected first?