ALEX ISENSTADT, Politico
- Republicans are seizing onto racially-freighted remarks Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) made Wednesday evening at the financial reform conference committee.
Speaking before the committee, which is trying to reconcile the House and Senate reform bills, Kanjorski appeared to imply that “minorities” are not “average, good American people.”
Kanjorski, who chairs the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, said, “We’re giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this recession, these are people — and they’re not minorities and they’re not defective and they’re not all the things you’d like to insinuate that these programs are about — these are average, good American people.”
