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BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:38 AM Mar 2016

Finally I agree with Hillary on something

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-calls-for-lobbyist-shaming-new-hampshire

<Asked at a town hall meeting at New Hampshire's Henniker College how to handle the increasing role of moneyed interests in Washington, Hillary Clinton told supporters that lobbyists should be exposed and publicly called out.

"Maybe use social media? Maybe make a concerted effort to really call these people out all the time, get some social pressure on them, get people to know their names," Clinton suggested, pointing, with obvious relish, to how the New York Daily News has taken to calling the National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre "Jihadi Wayne" for his refusal to support blocking individuals on the "no fly list" from getting gun permits.>

<Out of all the presidential candidates, Republican or Democrat, Clinton has raised the most money—$717,000—from lobbyist bundlers.>

This reads like something out of The Onion, or at least The Onion before IAC (with Board member Chelsea Clinton) bought it.
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Finally I agree with Hillary on something (Original Post) BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 OP
Release the transcripts onecaliberal Mar 2016 #1
We should call out her super delegates and surrogates (e.g. Howard Dean). n/t Skwmom Mar 2016 #2
Hillary I'm taking your advice and calling out lobbyist Steven Elmendorf! BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #3
. Autumn Mar 2016 #5
And Hillary, I'm taking your advice and calling out Tony Podesta! BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #4
. Autumn Mar 2016 #6
Let's start with her funders and PAC owners. longship Mar 2016 #7
Ooh! Can't wait until she starts calling out the superdelegates! cui bono Mar 2016 #8

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
3. Hillary I'm taking your advice and calling out lobbyist Steven Elmendorf!
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:49 AM
Mar 2016

You know him, former chief of staff to Dick Gephardt. He has raised over $172,000 for your campaign. Among his top clients are Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, the casino industry, Time Warner, Verizon, Facebook, Microsoft and Monsanto.

What are you going to do for Steven's clients to pay them back?

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
4. And Hillary, I'm taking your advice and calling out Tony Podesta!
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:58 AM
Mar 2016

You know him, he's the brother of your campaign manager John Podesta. Tony has raised over $205,000 for you. His clients come from the military-industrial complex (Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, General Dynamics), health insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield), big pharma (Merck), banking, hedge funds and private equity (Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse and KKR) and a lot of the foreign governments, including a bunch that your State Department has accused of human rights abuses: Saudi Arabia (which also donates to the Clinton Foundation in gratitude for the arms sales you approved), Azerbaijan, Burma and the Maldives.

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. Let's start with her funders and PAC owners.
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 01:32 AM
Mar 2016

Then we can talk, Hillary. Only then.

Put up, or shut up.

Meanwhile Bernie is a clean mean machine.

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