Phil Gramm

Gov. Tim Pawlenty was at odds with his own communications office on a couple points at his press conference yesterday — including the topic of his talk.

Dick Durbin is the senior senator from Illinois and was an early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Today he was in Minnesota stumping for Obama. I spoke to him by phone.

MSNBC reported last night that Phil Gramm was a registered lobbyist for Swiss banking giant UBS until last month. As TPM points out, the corporation is deeply mired in the mortgage-foreclosure crisis with some $37 billion invested in sub-prime loans. Furthermore, the Financial Times reports that UBS is advising its bankers not to step foot [...]