Hasta La Gadget!

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a former Wall Street executive, will serve as the national finance chairman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, replacing Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) as the Democratic Party readies itself for the 2014 midterm election.

Himes’ appointment at once increases the Democrats’ access to Wall Street’s cash pipeline, thanks to his 12-year run at Goldman Sachs, and undercuts the party’s effort to place itself rhetorically on the side of the middle class.

Regardless, the DCCC is calling Himes, now serving his third term in Congress, the “right person” to manage the party’s fundraising operation. The committee is also trumpeting its “strongest-ever” January, in which it just out-raised the National Republican Campaign Committee by nearly $1.7 million.

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