I believe Sec. Clinton can deliver on Russell Simmons' endorsement price

[kristopher]

"Senator Bernie Sanders' wife, Jane, said Russell Simmons called Bernie Sanders to talk about an endorsement in an interview with CNN's Jim Sciutto."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1415708

Apparently, as a condition of his endorsement, Simmons wants a promise end to factory farming and Bernie said no. Since he gave his endorsement to Sec. Clinton, it would seem that she has promised and I want to say that this time, I firmly believe that if anyone can deliver it is Sec. Clinton. Her proven knowledge and experience with the market for that industry "helped them to buy a home, to invest in securities and real estate and eventually to provide a nest egg for their young daughter". So I can't imagine that any other candidate in the race is even remotely as qualified as she.

It was a truly remarkable display of business acumen and analytic insight. I'm glad Simmons has raised this issue and I look forward to hearing the plan by the Secretary to transition to alternative sources of protein.

Top Arkansas Lawyer Helped Hillary Clinton Turn Big Profit
Published: March 18, 1994
WASHINGTON, March 17— Starting just before Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas, Hillary Rodham Clinton made about $100,000 in one year in the commodities market with the help and advice of a friend who was the top lawyer for one of the state's most powerful and heavily regulated companies.

The investments, made in a commodities trading account that was opened three weeks before Mr. Clinton was elected Governor in 1978, substantially altered the finances of the Clintons. At the time, Mr. Clinton was Attorney General. He and his wife were rising stars in Little Rock whose salaries were modest by the standards of their peers.

The proceeds helped them to buy a home, to invest in securities and real estate and eventually to provide a nest egg for their young daughter, according to the couple's associates and a review of the family's financial records. Tyson's Fortunes

But the trades, which came to light during a two-month examination of the Clintons' finances by The New York Times, also left them in the position of having relied significantly on the help of one of the state's premier powerbrokers, James B. Blair, a Clinton confidant who at the time was the primary outside lawyer for Tyson Foods Inc., of Springdale, Ark., the nation's biggest poultry company.

During Mr. Clinton's tenure in Arkansas, Tyson benefited from a variety of state actions, including $9 million in government loans, the placement of company executives on important state boards and favorable decisions on environmental issues...

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/18/us/top-arkansas-lawyer-helped-hillary-clinton-turn-big-profit.html?pagewanted=all

[riversedge]

1. You are just making stuff up!! Do you know if this was asked by Simmons and promised

by Clinton?? Or are you making an ASSumption?





.... Since he gave his endorsement to Sec. Clinton, it would seem that she has promised and I want to say that this time,

[Buzz Clik]

2. I heard that she heard that someone told Jane that if Bernie was a rocket, he'd fly.

BERNIE CAN FLY????!!!!111

Suck on that, Hillary!

[sufrommich]

3. Is Jane Sanders accusing Russell Simmons of taking a bribe?

That should be helpful.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Jane likely

didn't do her husband any favors with this "revelation" ....

[DhhD]

5. Simmons and Clinton's are the ones insensitive to the plight of the poor with regard to food and

the production of food farming to feed people in need and to feed animals that then provide food.


https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0SO8wXi09pWmMAAMa5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEwaDZzZnZoBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNxc3MtcXJ3?fr=sfp&ei=UTF-8&p=Bill+Clinton+finds+rice+too+expensive+for+the+Haiti+Earthquake+relief&fr2=12642


http://www.coha.org/haiti-research-file-neoliberalism%E2%80%99s-heavy-hand-on-haiti%E2%80%99s-vulnerable-agricultural-economy-the-american-rice-scandal/
snip
Did President Clinton and other recent White House tenants condemn Haiti to a future of endemic poverty through a self-serving U.S. rice export policy? An examination of Haiti’s economic liberalization strategies of the 1980s and 1990s indicates that the answer in part is “yes.”
more at site link


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/haiti-earthquake-funds_n_1200229.html
snip
At the time of publication, President Bill Clinton, the UN Special Envoy to Haiti and the co-chair of overseeing the nation’s re-construction for the last two years, hasn't responded to repeated requests by GlobalPost regarding specific aid and cash donation figures.
more at link


Clinton set up the privatization and commodities of the farm back in the 1990s and it was very evident in Bush era Farm Bills:
http://www.agritrade.org/Publications/PolicyFocus/Farm_Bill_5_white_commodities.pdf


Clinton's appearing to jump Left again (and again and again), using Simmons to promote their agenda. Bill Clinton needs to clean up his own mess instead of using Sanders, the farmers and price of rice, and Simmons, to do it for him them. How many people have starved to death over the modernization/privatization of rice?

[restorefreedom]

6. hillary supports big ag

and the tpp, which will result in the prioritization of profit and will increase animal suffering by orders of magnitude.

honestly, trump would be better on this issue than hillary with his opposition of tpp and probably wants to end subsidies to big ag.

[DhhD]

8. Linking this from Segami OP on DU 12511415708.

DhhD (4,285 posts)
87. It is a set up so the Clinton's can move Left by apologizing for their Privatization and

Modernization Activities of the 1980s and 1990s. Remember how the Clinton's worked with the Republicans in the 1990 to modernize, privatize and commodify food? Thankfully, they have not commodified water and air; unless allowing the dirty fuel industries to drain the fresh ground water aquifers qualifies.


http://www.allgov.com/news/unusual-news/8-policy-decisions-bill-clinton-now-regrets-150721?news=857012


http://www.agritrade.org/Publications/PolicyFocus/Farm_Bill_5_white_commodities.pdf


Clinton is using Simmons to set up another, Left of Bernie scheme. The Clinton's think that they can erase 35 years of Privatization of their own profit. Clinton's found out that the food commodity that Bill created and voted for, and endorsed though, like the Farm Bill of 2007, was not what was best for people even though it was good for his back pocketbook.

[restorefreedom]

9. thx for the links, sadly, not at all surprising

i mean, a clinton being a political opportunist?

pish posh

oh, and air and water will be next. i am waiting for her to team up with nestle.....

[DhhD]

11. Look for Republicans to expose Clinton's starting very soon. According to the GOP Privatization and

all failures of the economy can be placed with the apologizers, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Bernie did not take the food farming bait. Bernie did not take the how big should government be, question, by ABC Corporate News Anchor, at a Debate, either. Bernie minds the business of the People, not the corporate fascist empire that Hill and Bill represent.

[restorefreedom]

12. gonna be a Very interesting sunday debate...nt

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Russell got hit with a bad report card on Tuesday from the CFPB

His Rush card financial services has been getting massive complaints and just this week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the report, next day Russ is out there phoning and endorsing but I'm sure the two things are entirely unrelated and it is really all about farming practices. That makes much more sense.....

[DhhD]

10. Wonder who might be new investors to sure up the financial service in the near future. no text