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In reply to the discussion: **FALSE ELECTION NEWS** Showing up on FaceBook and elsewhere [View all]UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)74. Get out with the stupid little interview
it has been debunked and proven false but you cling to it because it is all you have.......
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Clinton's Top Aides Have Lobbied for Companies Liberals Despise
Not only is Hillary taking money from lobbyists; she's also hiring them to run her campaign.
In the 2008 presidential race, Hillary Clinton made no excuses for the $2 million she collected from registered lobbyists, saying, "Based on my 35 years of fighting for what I believe in, I dont think anybody seriously believes I'm going to be influenced by a lobbyist." But lobbyists would appear to have more than a little influence on her 2016 campaign. Not only is she still accepting donations from themsomething President Obama declined to do in his 2008 and 2012 bidsbut she is once again stocking her campaign with them.
There are at least six Clinton campaign staffers who, at one time or another, earned a paycheck as a registered lobbyist. Theyve lobbied for a range of controversial special interests, from the Keystone pipeline and Lehman Brothers to SeaWorld and some of the country's largest corporations.
Here's who they are:
John Podesta, campaign chairman
Podesta sits atop Clinton 2016, running the entire show alongside campaign manager Robby Mook. Podesta is a longtime buddy of the Clinton clan, having worked in Bill's White House as chief of staff. After leaving the White House, Podesta started the Democrats-in-exile think tank Center for American Progress, for which he did most of his lobbying work as a policy advocate in the mid-aughts.
Three decades ago, he also helped his brother Tony Podesta found a profit-driven lobbying firm, the Podesta Group. While he was getting the Center for American Progress set up, John Podesta did some lobbying for the group. His clients for the Podesta Group included eBay, the American Insurance Association, and the Agency for Nuclear Projects, an arm of the Nevada government.
Jose Villarreal, campaign treasurer
Villarreal is a familiar face around Clintonland. He served as a senior adviser on Hillary's 2008 campaign, and his ties with the family date back to a stint as deputy campaign manager on Bill's first presidential bid.
Villarreal hasn't worked as a federal lobbyist since 2009, but when he was in the lobbying world he was particularly active. Over the course of a decade lobbying at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field, LLP, his clients included the largest players in corporate and financial America. A brief sampling: NASDAQ, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Bridgestone, Boeing, AT&T, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, the Motion Picture Association of America, Disney, PG&E Corporation, Paypal, and the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform (funded by 3M, General Electric, and others).
Charlie Baker III, chief administrative officer
One of the founders of the Boston-based Dewey Square Group, a prominent Democratic consulting firm, Baker is a longtime party insider who sits near the top of Clinton's team. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Baker did a bit of federal lobbying for Northwest Airlines through Dewey Square, but the bulk of his lobbying work has come at Boston law firm DLA Piper LLP. He's regularly advocated before Congress for Rhode Island-based Citizens Bank. Other lobbying clients included the pharmaceutical firm Medicines Company, defense contractor Raytheon, and gambling trade association group Interactive Gaming Council. At the local level in Massachusetts, he's lobbied for AOL, earning DLA $120,000 between 2008 and 2009, and the Sterling Suffolk Racecourse, netting his law firm more than $300,000 between 2008 and 2011. According to disclosures in Massachusetts, Baker personally earned more than $250,000 from that work.
He even managed to pocket a bit of money from the ghost of Lehman Brothers. According to lobbying databases, Baker and three colleagues collected $10,000 from Lehman Brothers to lobby Congress at "hearings on financial services crisis." That happened between October and December 2008after Lehman had already been liquidated through bankruptcy that September.
Jennifer Palmieri, communications director
The former director of communications for Obama at the White House, Palmieri jumped ship to serve the same role on Clinton 2016. She worked as a deputy press secretary in Bill Clintons White House. Afterward, Palmieri turned toward lobbying, but eschewed corporate clients to work for liberal causes. In 2001, Americans for Gun Safety paid Palmieri and five others $1.2 million to lobby for background checks for gun purchases. In 2006 and 2007 she was registered as a lobbyist for the Center for American Progress, trying to sway members of Congress against the Iraq War.
Jeffery Berman, consultant on tracking delegates
Clinton recently hired Berman, Barack Obama's 2008 delegate guru, to run the math for her primary campaign, just in case Bernie Sanders does end up challenging her in the contest for delegates. Berman brings expertise on the byzantine rules of caucus delegate counting, but he's also known as a prominent lobbyist for a project fiercely opposed by environmentalists: the Keystone pipeline.
"Hillary Clinton has hired a former lobbyist for the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline," The New Republic's Rebecca Leber wrote last month, "further upsetting environmentalists who have long been wary of her commitment to fighting climate change." As the Huffington Post noted, the firm Berman worked for, Bryan Cave, received $980,000 from TransCanada for lobbying work from 2009 to 2011. Berman was part of the team lobbying for the pipeline, and TransCanada paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his share of the work.
Berman worked for a host of other corporate clients during his years at Bryan Cave, which he left earlier this year to set up his own public affairs shop. According to the Senate's lobbying disclosure database, Berman influence-peddled for SeaWorld, Gogo (the inflight wifi company formerly known as Aircell), the GEO Group (America's second-largest private prison corporation), and FedEx.
Erik Balsbaugh, Massachusetts grassroots organizer
Balsbaugh has the distinction of being the first, and so far only, Clinton staffer working the ground in Massachusetts. He worked as a lobbyist for the Dewey Square Group in the state, generally on health care issues for the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, a group that advocates easing restrictions on medical marijuana. In the first half of 2012, he received $25,000 for pressing Massachusetts lawmakers to loosen medical marijuana laws. At Dewey Square, he also worked for other liberal causes, such as the Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition and the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/hillary-clinton-lobbyists-campaign-staff-keystone-lehman
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you're right, whoever is doing this is an AH. It is pretty low to play on people's emotions with
still_one
Mar 2016
#76
Most likely NOT a Sanders supporter, but, a GOP trick to foster a greater split of the Dem party.
blm
Mar 2016
#80
I was going to make a fake news story about Rubio dropping and supporting Clinton
snooper2
Mar 2016
#89
And some folks want to fuck people over by making them believe it is true.
Luminous Animal
Feb 2016
#39
Give me a break. Sanders supporters would be excited and more likely to repost.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#35
So for those Bernie Folks who are posting this article IT IS NOT LEGIT, and so make sure to QUIT!
UglyGreed
Feb 2016
#9
When you haven't heard it on the news, or the radio, or can't find it anywhere else on the internet
FrenchieCat
Feb 2016
#12
This has "DIRTY TRICKS" all over it. Attributing it to Sanders supporters is groundless slander
Kip Humphrey
Feb 2016
#14
Human nature being what it is, of course some Bernie supporters will pass it on in FB BEFORE
Kip Humphrey
Feb 2016
#24
Do you realize that Capehart asked Tad Devine of Bernie's campaign about that photo, and
R B Garr
Feb 2016
#30
The spin is trying to make Bernie a victim of something his own campaign was negligent in
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#70
You obviously didn't watch the clip from MSNBC where Tad Devine was asked about
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#75
It's obvious you didn't watch the MSNBC clip that was the crux of this. Just admit it.
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#69
LMAO again! You obviously didn't watch the MSNBC clip with Tad Devine and Capehart
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#78
Yes, it's obvious you would rather talk about anything else but the MSNBC interview which
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#81
Your anti-Hillary spam has nothing to do with the MSNBC clip from the year 2016
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#91
More anti-Hillary spam totally unrelated to this thread or the fraud perpetrated
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#92
The 2016 MSNBC interview clearly shows Bernie's campaign rep unable to answer a question
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#101
Well, this is what I said many posts again. You obviously didn't watch the 2016 clip
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#104
What transpired between Bernie's campaign rep happened before this Danny Lyon
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#108
You admit that you don't watch pertinent interviews between two parties, but you
R B Garr
Mar 2016
#112
Fake Website Tricks Thousands Into Believing Elizabeth Warren Endorsed Bernie Sanders
UglyGreed
Mar 2016
#109
Why would anyone in the Clinton campaign want to influence undecideds by announcing via
FrenchieCat
Feb 2016
#27
BEARING FALSE WITNESS AGAINST OTHERS IS JUST AS BAD AS LYING - DO YOU THINK SANDERS SANCTIONED THIS?
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#28
Did you also put upa notice that clearly states that IF SOME Hillary supporters are posting this,
FourScore
Mar 2016
#47