Top Hillary Clinton Advisers and Fundraisers Lobbied Against Obamacare

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Top Hillary Clinton Advisers and Fundraisers Lobbied Against Obamacare

Lee Fang - The Intercept - Feb. 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton is campaigning as a guardian of President Barack Obama’s progressive policy accomplishments. In recent weeks, she has called the Affordable Care Act “one of the greatest accomplishments of President Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of our country,” and promised that she is “going to defend Dodd-Frank” and “defend President Obama for taking on Wall Street.”

Meanwhile, however, Clinton’s campaign has been relying on a team of strategists and fundraisers, many of whom spent much of the last seven years as consultants or lobbyists for business interests working to obstruct Obama’s agenda in those two areas.

Know her by the company she keeps.
I really don't think there is anything genuine about Hillary Clinton except her ambition to follow in Bill's footsteps.

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1. Ever More Proof Of The Corruption And Connection Between The 1% And HRC

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2. Did Rachel discuss this?

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3. "Steve Elmendorf, a campaign adviser and fundraiser...worked to weaken Dodd-Frank..."

Steve Elmendorf, a campaign adviser and fundraiser who has collected $30,505 for Clinton, was retained by Goldman Sachs as one of the bank’s “primary lobbyists” working to weaken the Dodd-Frank bill. Records show that after the bill was signed into law, Elmendorf continued to work on behalf of a number of Wall Street clients to ensure the implementation was favorable to financial industry interests. Elmendorf was tapped by Citigroup, for example, to help the House of Representatives pass the Swap Jurisdiction Clarity Act, a bill strongly supported by Republican leadership in Congress to allow banks to avoid financial regulations by moving some operations overseas — a change that experts say could lead to another financial meltdown.

This article needs to go viral. Great work by Lee Fang.

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4. Elmendorf and Dean

Elmendorf and Howard Dean at the last debate.



Is there any public policy of Hillary's that isn't tainted by big money special interests?

The Clinton campaign is going to eventually collapse under the weight of all this conflict of interest and undue influence.

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5. kick

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6. this needs to be made widely known

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7. ACA is a start, but we need to move to single payer n/t