Wall Street made Jesse call W

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 28 19:48:47 PST 2000


[via Sam Smith]

JESSE'S WALL STREET FRIENDS

VILLAGE VOICE: Downcast Wall Street investors whose fears had been focused on a slowing economy demanded that Reverend Jesse Jackson curtail his blistering attacks on George W. Bush. These financiers arranged the controversial phone call that Jackson made to the "president-select" shortly after Al Gore conceded the race, key business figures told the Voice. Corporate moguls contribute heavily to Jackson's Wall Street Project, an economic-development program intended to persuade New York's financial leaders to steer big-business bucks to minority communities and entrepreneurs . . . "These guys on Wall Street aren't Democrats or Republicans-they're capitalists," says one investor. "When they saw the tide turning, some of Reverend Jackson's top contributors put a call in to him." Jackson did not return Voice calls for comment.

VILLAGE VOICE http://villagevoice.com/issues/0052/noel.shtml



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