Hillary Will Have March 21 Fundraiser W/ NRA

[amborin]

NRA Lobbyist Will Co-Host Hillary Clinton Fundraiser

Zaid Jilani

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called her support for gun control laws a key differentiator from her opponent Bernie Sanders, who she claims isn’t tough enough on the industry. But in mid-March, a Clinton campaign fundraiser will be co-hosted by a lobbyist whose clients have included the National Rifle Association (NRA).

As David Sirota reported Monday in the International Business Times, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is a co-host and the guest of honor at a fundraising lunch in the nation’s capital on March 21.

One of the other co-hosts is Jeff Forbes of the lobbying firm Forbes-Tate.

Forbes has represented the NRA since 2009 and as of the last quarter of 2015 was still registered to lobby for the organization. On his lobbying disclosure, Forbes wrote that he was signed up to lobby for “Issues related to 2nd Amendment rights, regulation and gun control, and tax and appropriations related to same; issues related to corporate tax reform.” [Update at 4:41 p.m. ET: Jennifer Baker, director of public affairs for the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, emails us to say that “Jeff Forbes is no longer an NRA consultant.”]

During the 2013 push for universal background checks, Forbes was one of a phalanx of Democratic Party lobbyists employed by the NRA to kill that legislation.

[Merryland]

1. you go, girl, because

you're looking worse with each passing fundraiser.

[liberal_at_heart]

2. K&R

[hedda_foil]

3. It's called transactional politics.

I give you buckets of money and you give me what I want.

[hack89]

4. Do you know who Jeff Forbes is? Nt

[PonyUp]

5. ...

^N^R^A

[Red Knight]

6. One of her spokespersons was on CNN yesterday

They asked about her fundraising and he just grinned and said--"Well, Bernie has raised a lot of money."

So you see--she has no other choice but to go to her corporate donors. Her hands are tied. There is no other way to raise money, you know.

Ask Hillary supporters and they'll tell you: "It's simply how things are done."

And they're fine with that.