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Michigan Senate candidate Hoekstra's firm defended Madoff
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jul 21, 2011 11:37am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jul 21, 2011 11:00am |
| Description | Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) spent his time between Congress and his decision to challenge Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) working for the firm that defended convicted felon Bernie Madoff, the Michigan Democratic Party trumpeted in a release Thursday morning.
Hoekstra took the job with Dickstein Shapiro, a prominent law and lobbying firm, after Madoff had been convicted, and had no involvement in the case. But the optics aren't good for the candidate, and the association will be a main line of attack against him in a general election.
"Of the thousands of lobbying shops in Washington, Pete Hoekstra picked the one that meshed best with his own anti-middle class record — the one that just finished defending a guy who ran history's largest ponzi-scheme. If that doesn’t reinforce every point ever made about Hoekstra siding with special interests at the expense of the middle class, nothing will," said Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer. "It's one thing to bail out Wall Street and then turn around and protect taxpayer funded bonuses for bailed-out CEOs. But to take that kind of record and cash in with the firm that just finished defending the architect of history's largest ponzi-scheme is even worse." |
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