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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Atlanta Mayor’s Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show [View all]beedle
(1,235 posts)26. yes, but are they paid to write in the interested of the people
who the elected official was elected to serve, or are they being paid to do the bidding of a corporate lobby?
If I'm elected I hire staff and writers to do what's in the interests of the people who elected me.
If I ever think that the people's interests and the interests of some industry sector align, then the same people I hired to write in the name of the interests of the people can write that same speech/article ... I don't hire sector lobbyists because the optics are incredibly poor.
To paraphrase a famous quote: Not only must integrity be done; it must also be seen to be done
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NWCorona
May 2016
OP
The only comments on this (and this is not the first thread on the subject)...
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#3
I was not criticizing you for putting up another thread on this. That kind of thing happens.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#10
I'm not a kill the messenger type of person but I do think the actual messenger should be known
NWCorona
May 2016
#14
And into la-la land we go! Kindly tell me where I defended this. Please use quotation marks.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#8
No it does not. Plagiarism has a very specific definition that does NOT include...
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#12
No, I don't agree that the act of writing that piece is worst than the acts it speaks against.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#24
Dude, every person in a position of authority with a public face has writers.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#21
Well, duh. Usually they correspond to the message of the person of authority.
libdem4life
May 2016
#23
I wonder how many DU posters are paid astroturfers...it would only be logical.
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#13
When Hillary says single-payer isn't feasible, we know who wrote her words for her n/t
arcane1
May 2016
#28
Down here in Florida, ALEC writes the bills. A GOP legislator accidentally submitted a bill with
djean111
May 2016
#29
Written with input and feedback by Reed. That "lobbyist" has worked for Obama, John Lewis, Reed and
Hoyt
May 2016
#30
It doesn't matter who you used to work for, it matters who you currently represent
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#34
He represents Democrats, and most -- if not all -- of them have have endorsed Clinton.
Hoyt
May 2016
#35
Yes, that's fine. It's also perfectly fine, even expected, to encourage disclosure of possible
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#37
He was Reed adviser at the time AND it was Reed's article, not Johnson's. You just don't like Reed,
Hoyt
May 2016
#38
You haven't shown that he was a Reed advisor at the time. In fact I don't think he was
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#39