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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Doing Finance Industry Fundraiser Just Before Iowa
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/hillary-clinton-doing-back-to-back-finance-industry-fundraisers-just-before-iowa/Despite being dogged with questions about her ties to Wall Street, Hillary Clinton will take a detour from the campaign trail in Iowa to do a finance industry fundraiser on Wednesday.
Clinton will appear in Philadelphia at a gala fundraiser hosted by executives at Franklin Square Capital Partners, a $17 billion investment fund. Rocker Bon Jovi will reportedly play an acoustic set for friends who pledge $1,000 and hosts who bundle up to $27,000. (Giancarlo Stefanoni, a Clinton campaign staffer, confirmed that as of Tuesday afternoon, the event is still on.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Franklin Square employs Ivy League-educated money managers and salespeople with experience at big Wall Street firms plus four personal trainers and a dietitian to keep staff happy and productive amid the gym, yoga and nap rooms, Sol LeWitt art installations, and fancy cafeteria....
BlackRocks ties to Clinton go particularly deep: Cheryl Mills, one of Clintons closest advisers at the State Department, sits on BlackRocks board, and perhaps not surprisingly, Clintons plans for the industry align with the companys financial strategy.
Clinton will appear in Philadelphia at a gala fundraiser hosted by executives at Franklin Square Capital Partners, a $17 billion investment fund. Rocker Bon Jovi will reportedly play an acoustic set for friends who pledge $1,000 and hosts who bundle up to $27,000. (Giancarlo Stefanoni, a Clinton campaign staffer, confirmed that as of Tuesday afternoon, the event is still on.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Franklin Square employs Ivy League-educated money managers and salespeople with experience at big Wall Street firms plus four personal trainers and a dietitian to keep staff happy and productive amid the gym, yoga and nap rooms, Sol LeWitt art installations, and fancy cafeteria....
BlackRocks ties to Clinton go particularly deep: Cheryl Mills, one of Clintons closest advisers at the State Department, sits on BlackRocks board, and perhaps not surprisingly, Clintons plans for the industry align with the companys financial strategy.
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Hillary Clinton Doing Finance Industry Fundraiser Just Before Iowa (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jan 2016
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jkbRN
(850 posts)1. This is disgusting and shameful behavior by her, as well as her campaign.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)2. She's going there to reiterate her "cut it out" to them
Oh wait, I meant "cut the check"...
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. just shaking my head
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)4. She's gonna need boatloads more money
that's for sure.
her campaign is sinking fast.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)5. Maybe if the MSM would report stuff like this she wouldn't be so blatant.
amborin
(16,631 posts)6. the CFO of Hillary's campaign--Gary Gensler---promoted the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CAMA
....During his time at the Treasury, Gensler had pushed hard for Wall Street deregulation and even helped write the CFMA, something now-Senator Bernie Sanders found unacceptable. And so Bernie moved to block Gensler's nomination. Sanders explained his actions during an appearance on Democracy Now.
Although Sanders did succeed in blocking Gensler's nomination, the victory was short-lived: The hold was only temporary, and the Senate ended up approving Gensler as head of the CFTC on March 16, 2009. He held that post until 2014, when he was succeeded by Timothy Massad.
So what's Gary Gensler - the guy who promoted the CFMA - up to today? Oh, you know, nothing big. He's just the chief financial officer of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Yep, that's right, the CFO of the Hillary Clinton Campaign!
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34497-the-most-disingenuous-attack-on-bernie-yet