Former Bush Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez appeared on MSNBC and offered a strong rationale for Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton based on her resume and more. Gutierrez’s statement should be a catalyst for many other concerned Republicans.
This Republican is voting for Hillary Clinton
This Republican voting for Hillary was giving up his party affiliation; he said he was putting his country ahead of his party. Halie Jackson noted that Gutierrez is a lifelong Republican who served as Secretary of Commerce for President Bush and Chairman and CEO of Kellog. She then asked him why he endorsed and is voting for Hillary Clinton when she is likely to raise taxes on people like him.
“I don’t agree with all of Secretary Clinton’s policies,” Gutierrez said. “I don’t agree with all of the Democratic Party policies. I am a Republican. And I continue to be a Republican. But I believe if you look at the two resumes that you have in front of you — I have two resumes in front of me — I am going to make a hiring decision, one is Donald Trump, one is Hillary Clinton. I will take Hillary Clinton for the good of the country hands down. I just can’t do it. I can’t vote for Donald Trump. I think it is wrong. And I think at some point we have to put country over party.”
Carlos Guitierrez is a signatory to the open letter by several American CEOs and business executives that say Trump is terrible for the economy.
NONE of us will be voting for Donald Trump for President of the United States. Our businesses are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. Every big business was once a small business. Since the 1970s small businesses have provided more than half of all jobs and two-thirds of all net new jobs in America, and are responsible for more than half of all U.S. sales. We know what business needs to succeed, and it is not Donald Trump’s vision for America.
Never before has a major party nominee been so philosophically committed to the culture of bankruptcy and frivolous litigation. After his six business bankruptcies, almost all major banks understandably refuse to lend to Trump or his businesses. With his economic policies estimated to cost the Treasury $10 trillion over the next decade and his flirtations with renegotiating the national debt – a potentially disastrous blow to investment in the U.S. – it’s as if he is already preparing for his next bankruptcy, only this time on behalf of our government. We cannot allow that to happen.
The letter is powerful and should give Republicans food for thought.