Atlanta Mayor’s Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show

[pdsimdars]

A few days before the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

But emails released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.

Anne Torres, the mayor’s director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The column’s revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.


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https://theintercept.com/2016/05/06/hillary-super-pac-draft-oped/

[Ed Suspicious]

1. There is so little that's real about her campaign and popularity.

We should all be so incredibly insulted, but we aren't, and I don't understand why not.

[Hoyt]

2. How many times are you guys going to throw Reed under the bus?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1912244

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1911784

[Fuddnik]

4. How often does it run by here?

[Hoyt]

5. Apparently every time a good Democrat endorses Clinton.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Hillary has a big tent, Bernie has a big bus.

Lots of people under both.

[Fuddnik]

3. Who woulda ever thunk it?

Lie, distort, cheat, fabricate, and steal.

Just what I would want in a presidential candidate. She's lower than Nixswine.

[Buzz Clik]

7. Lie? No. Distort? No. Fabricate? No. Steal? No.

Turnover on downs.

[pdsimdars]

8. Don't forget the cherry on that mud cake. . . . FBI investigation

[silvershadow]

9. Say it ain't so... nt

[pdsimdars]

10. come on, I've seen you around these parts before, what else would you expect?

[silvershadow]

11. Well I was surprised. My feed looks like the crowd has switched from "She will never be

indicted" to "See? I told you so! She just has horrific judgement". (Well, I think that's her message anyway. Oh, and, we don't need organized labor in the party anymore is another great meme they've put forth).

[Android3.14]

12. A person in the Hillary campaign having someone else do their thinking?

Say it ain't so!

[pdsimdars]

15. Hard to believe, I know , . . .

[Ash_F]

13. "out of touch with the the poor" Because a $12 wage is better than $15

[dreamnightwind]

14. This is how the astroturf machine works

Disgusting. A corporate lobbyist who left the firm Denton (the same firm Howard Dean works for, formerly known as McKenna Long & Aldridge). Johnson left that firm together with two Republican lobbyists to join Greenberg Traurig’s lobbyist practice

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/07/07/trio-of-bipartisan-atlanta-lobbyists-opening-up-new-shop/

Among the clients they said they are retaining are Microsoft Corp., which is always engaged in a tangle of messy regulatory issues; Spectra Energy, which is pushing a 157-mile pipeline through south Georgia; and MGM, which has proposed a $1 billion casino for downtown Atlanta.

This is who wrote the letter CNN published in Torres' name, accusing Bernie of being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

I suppose that single mother can work on the pipeline and at night can work in the casino. These people are everything that is wrong with our party.

[vintx]

16. the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

Which is a direct result of Welfare Reform.

Gee, who championed that cause?

[dreamnightwind]

17. Yep

[Skwmom]

18. Smoke and mirrors.