He organized the “Dump Johnson” movement in ’67 when a lot of people, myself included, told him it wasn’t going to work. You have to send me money to defend myself.” Also, when you’re in office and people say bad things about you, you can raise money off it: “Look what they’re saying about me. He said, “Just remember, at any given moment you are much more focused on you than almost anybody else is.” So don’t overreact to criticism in or out of the press. It was from the attorney general of Massachusetts, Francis X.
#BARNEY FRANK ON BERNIE SANDERS SERIES#
The free lecture series continues Wednesday, when PNC Capital Markets managing director William Hayden will speak at the library at 1:30 p.m.What’s the best advice you ever received? “His care for this area was so appreciated,” she said. “I always think of him every time I drive over the Braga Bridge,” McArthur said, citing Frank’s efforts several years ago to prevent massive ships from carrying liquefied natural gas past the Fall River structure. “This was an area that was good to me politically,” Frank said of SouthCoast.ĭartmouth residents Karen McArthur and Linda Keith posed for a photo with Frank after his remarks. He said he was happy to speak at UMass Dartmouth, which houses his collected papers and where Frank is meeting with students and faculty this week.
Jeb Bush, Frank said he’s been “surprised at how bad of a candidate he’s been,” but still listed Bush among frontrunners for the GOP nomination.īarney Frank served in Congress from 1981 to 2013, and was chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011. “Republicans have done too good a job in stoking up their voters to believe government is a bad thing.”Īs for the current crop of presidential candidates, Frank said Donald Trump “is on a big ego trip” and “likelier to cause trouble on the Republican side than Sanders is” for Democrats, should Trump lose his nomination bid and decide to break his promise not to run as a third-party candidate. “It all started when the Republicans won the 2010 election and decided to delegitimize Obama,” Frank said. That hasn’t happened since Democrats won at the polls in 20, Frank said, and the biennial flip-flops that began then have elected President Barack Obama, “and then people who hate Obama,” and back and forth, creating a toxic mix at the Capitol.īut Frank, a staunch Democrat who represented SouthCoast municipalities in Congress for more than 30 years, put the brunt of the blame squarely on Republicans - specifically, the party’s far right wing - during his remarks at the Claire T. “It’s the 'poor voters’ fault - Who are the people who voted for Obama in 2008 then stayed home in 2010?” Frank said, noting that success in Congress historically has required a major party to win two elections in a row. Bernie Sanders - whom “it would be a grave error” for Democrats to nominate, given Sanders’ self-proclaimed socialism, Frank said - and GOP presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson making headlines for brash, divisive statements.įrank said the voters have drawn the dividing lines, not just the politicians they’ve elected. In an hour-long talk on the roots of national political unrest - kicking off the university’s “The Art of Discourse” fall lecture series - Frank said people eyeing discord in Washington, D.C., often erroneously bemoan “poor voters.” The latest turmoil includes Republicans struggling to anoint a new Speaker of the House, throngs of Democratic voters rallying around the presidential bid of Vermont Sen. Barney Frank said Monday evening at the UMass Dartmouth library. DARTMOUTH - Voters upset at mixed signals coming from Congress need look no further than the mixed signals they’ve been sending Congress themselves, former longtime U.S.
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