{"id":6003,"date":"2012-10-31T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2012-10-31T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:58:24","slug":"who-is-shashank-tripathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"Who is Shashank Tripathi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/wight2012.com\/wight-announces-new-campaign-manager\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Up until today, he was the campaign director for Chris Wight, who is running as a Republican for the US House. He is running for the 12th District, which includes the east half of most of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

“After arriving in New York, Chris spent 15 years working for the world\u2019s largest investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and J.P. Morgan.”<\/p>\n

His campaign director has established a network of media contacts in New York. During the events of Sandy, Mr. Tripathi thought it would be a clever idea to make up things (like the NYSE trading floor was under 3 feet of water) and see if CNN would repeat it as true without verification.<\/p>\n

If you have been to Wall Street, the tip of Manhattan is bedrock that comes up to the surface – in between Wall Street and midtown, you have to dig through 50 feet or so of fill and sediment to reach bedrock. The NYSE and JP Morgan are on a hill above Battery Park and it would be highly improbable that water would reach the building, let alone be 3 feet into the trading floor. In the basement below the basement perhaps…<\/p>\n

Good going there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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