Thu 3/12 @ 7PM
Richard Cordray has always been a stellar example of what a public servant and elected official should be. After stints in the state legislature and Franklin County government, he served as Ohio state treasurer and attorney general, amassing an impressive record of protecting the financial interests of ordinary state citizens. As AG, he went after financial institutions that had cheated taxpayers and successfully won billions of dollars.
Alas, he narrowly lost his reelection race in 2010, but a month later, Elizabeth Warren announced his appointment to a job in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she created. And when Senate Republicans blocked her confirmation to lead it, President Obama appointed Cordray in her place. He headed it from 2012-2017.
More recently, in 2018, Cordray ran for governor of Ohio and lost to the same man who bested him in his attorney general race, Mike DeWine. Ohio is poorer for his loss.
Cordray has now written a book called Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy and Our Democracy, explaining what the CFPB was created to do and how government can be used to protect citizens from corporate financial predators, although, alas, the Trump administration has virtually destroyed this valuable institution.
Cordray will be speaking at the Hudson Library & Historical Society. The program is free; books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Learned Owl Book Shop. Register here.
96 Library Street, Hudson, OH 44236