Huntsman Goes After Romney On Ties To Wall Street, Big Banks

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In an interview with the Huffington Post, Jon Huntsman said Mitt Romney would be beholden Wall Street, and therefore not willing to break up big banks or allow them to fail if such a situation came about:

It is the fact that he has raised so much money from the large banks, the banks that need to be right-sized. If you are the largest recipient of funds from Wall Street, and in particular the large banks, you are not going to be inclined to want to change that model. Because those who run those banks want no change, they profit off the status quo and clearly they are not going to be inclined to want to bring about any change.

Huntsman is trying to boost his own campaign in New Hampshire by drawing a sharp line between his own position on big banks and the idea of ‘too big to fail’ and Romney’s position.

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