Hillary Touts Endorsement by Drug Lobbyist, Howard Dean, Sitting Next to Goldman, Monsanto Lobbyist

[KoKo]

‘Progressive’ Hillary Touts Endorsement by Drug Lobbyist Sitting Next to Goldman, Monsanto Lobbyist

February 4, 2016

Much of the early part of the MSNBC New Hampshire Democratic debate Thursday focused on whether Clinton was “progressive enough,” after Sanders accused her of only being “progressive on some days.”

Among other positions, Sanders pointed to her close ties with Goldman Sachs and big corporations as problems with her progressive resume.

In turn, as “proof” that she’s progressive, Clinton touted the endorsement of former Vermont governor and farther-left presidential candidate Howard Dean, now himself an employee of a healthcare lobbying firm.

He’s not exactly a “lobbyist,” but he more or less is.

Here’s how The Intercept describes him:

Dean, though he rarely discloses the title during his media appearances, now serves as senior advisor to the law firm Dentons, where he works with the firm’s Public Policy and Regulation practice, a euphemism for Dentons’ lobbying team. Dean is not a lawyer, but neither is Newt Gingrich, who is among the growing list of former government officials and politicians that work in the Public Policy and Regulation practice of Dentons.

The Dentons Public Policy and Regulation practice lobbies on behalf of a variety of corporate health care interests, including the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a powerful trade group for drugmakers like Pfizer and Merck.

Not only is Dean now a corporate shill for Big Pharma, he is actively campaigning against his own support for single-payer healthcare (Medicare-for-all, as Bernie calls it) while also playing a surrogate for the Clinton camp.

The more ironic aspect was that Dean was sitting with a man named Steve Elmendorf, a Goldman Sachs lobbyist involved in her campaign. Elmendorf isn’t just a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, the former political operative also lobbies for Monsanto, Citigroup, Verizon, and countless other massive corporations.



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[FreakinDJ]

1. NeoCon - DLC - whats the difference

[reformist2]

2. I want a party where NOBODY from Wall Street or K-Street is in a position of power.

[cali]

3. I find it disappointing that he took this route

Because he was my governor, I knew he was a centrist dem, but I liked him anyway because he seemed forthright. He had other options. He could have headed up DFA, for example. Hee was already quite comfortably off.

[JRLeft]

4. No conflict of interest there.

[dreamnightwind]

5. Thanks KoKo!

Excellent find. Everyone should know what forces are behind politicians. These are forces I do not support in any way. I used to like Dean, now I see him as just another in a long series of sell-outs. The money and the group-think in D.C. must truly be irresistable.

[KoKo]

10. I know........and, then there's the Betrayal Factor.....

Which none of them who "USE US" will Admit!

As you say:

I used to like Dean, now I see him as just another in a long series of sell-outs. The money and the group-think in D.C. must truly be irresistable.

It just goes to show they think we are Gullible/Innocents and will always be "herded" like cattle to the slaughter.

They just forget that "Time and Information will "Move On" and that means that "Changes are A'Coming!"

[oasis]

6. Those guys on either side of Dean look exactly like a father and son who

were interviewed by MSNBC leaving the debate. The dad said his son convinced him to back Bernie.

[karynnj]

8. Kennedy was right when he claimed that he (Kennedy) represented the Democratic wing of the

Democratic party.

In fact, looking at the later actions of all the people who ran that year, Kennedy's judgment in strongly endorsing John Kerry over the others is completely vindicated. Of the viable candidates, he was the most liberal. In 2004, Trippi and others had a lot of success creating an image of Dean that might have been closer to Sanders than it was to Dean's history.

Just as HRC is doing with Bernie's vote on the commodities modernization bill, the 2004 campaign used Kerry's vote - that he rightfully regrets - to spin Kerry as a hawk and Dean as a dove. In fact, it was more complicated than that - especially as Dean had been pretty hawkish in mid 2002, but did not have to vote. By 2006, Kerry with Kerry/feingold was better than Dean supporting the more extended Korb plan. In the last years, Dean repeatedly argued that we should not negotiate with Iran - while Kerry put his skill, heart, soul and gut into getting an agreement that really has made a war with Iran far less likely.

Where Dean is fantastic is what seemed his passion (at least from the one time I saw him a few years ago in Burlington at a city wide democratic event) - getting Democrats elected. His entire demeanor changed when people asked him about maybe winning Senate seats in places like GA and KY. He was far more animated then when people asked if he would run or asked about current issues.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

9. Calling all Hillary supporters ...

this is your crowd ...

Why?

It is not too late to join the revolution.