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Report1212

(661 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 10:51 AM Feb 2012

Today, Governors From Both Parties Join Lobbyists To Wine, Dine, And Discuss New NAFTA-Like Deal

Later today, governors from both parties will gather at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington D.C. for an evening with powerful corporate lobbyists and businessmen to discuss a new free trade deal. Trade officials from the Obama administration are expected to brief attendees with information of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a new trade agreement that has been discussed since last year.

The Trans-Pacific trade agreement is rumored to open up Vietnam and seven Pacific Rim countries as a low-cost alternative to Chinese labor. However, as Public Citizen points out, even members of Congress have not seen the details of the proposal.

The event features Governors Steve Beshear (D-KY), Terry Branstad (R-IA), Matt Mead (R-WY), Bev Perdue (D-NC), Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) Gary Herbert (R-UT), who will be joined by John Engler, a lobbyist who heads the Business Roundtable, a corporate influence peddling group that counts major CEOs as members. Corporations sponsoring the event include Amgen, GE, Intuit, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, TIA, Chevron, Target, and Phillip Morris International. Industry lobbying groups PhrMA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are also listed as sponsors.

Read more: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/governors-lobbyists-discuss-asian-free-trade/

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Today, Governors From Both Parties Join Lobbyists To Wine, Dine, And Discuss New NAFTA-Like Deal (Original Post) Report1212 Feb 2012 OP
... xchrom Feb 2012 #1
Shocked to see Schweitzer there in particular Report1212 Feb 2012 #2
Schweitzer is also all for the Keystone Pipeline djean111 Feb 2012 #3
he can be a PINO like Quan or Villaraigosa--Bernie Sanders on healthcare, Palin on wolves and XL MisterP Feb 2012 #7
I guess China's slave labor is getting too expensive. Time to exploit millions of southeast asians Kip Humphrey Feb 2012 #4
I'm with you, onethatcares Feb 2012 #5
Fuckers! I hope they all get the shits from the food. n/t Hotler Feb 2012 #6
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
3. Schweitzer is also all for the Keystone Pipeline
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 11:51 AM
Feb 2012

so I am not surprised at all - he seems like he is becoming a DINO.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
4. I guess China's slave labor is getting too expensive. Time to exploit millions of southeast asians
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 11:52 AM
Feb 2012

instead. All I can say is, "Watch out, China! We're about to do to you what we did to northern Mexico."

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
5. I'm with you,
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 12:27 PM
Feb 2012

how ya gonna keep em down on the paddies once they've seen the great things sweat shops can do?

fucking planet owners, what is their next plan? Do you think they'll try to seduce the head hunters in Brazil to

work for trinkets in tall buildings?

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