Maybe it's time to rebrand the Democrats as the party of the rich.
This month saw the election of Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker as governor of Illinois. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated $3.2 billion, and spent $171.5 million to get himself elected, according toMoney magazine.
John Kerry was the guest of honor Tuesday, November 27 for a panel discussion at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge.
Kerry, 74, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1985-2013), U.S. Secretary of State in the Obama administration (2013-2017), and Democratic nominee for president in 2004, had lots to say.