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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNBC/AP: Firms that paid for Clinton speeches have U.S. gov't interests
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/21/the-associated-press-firms-that-paid-for-clinton-speeches-have-us-govt-interests.html
The AP review identified at least 60 firms and organizations that sponsored Clinton's speeches and lobbied the U.S. government at some point since the start of the Obama administration. Over the same period, at least 30 also profited from government contracts. Twenty-two groups lobbied the State Department during Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. They include familiar Wall Street financial houses such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., corporate giants like General Electric Co. and Verizon Communications Inc., and lesser-known entities such as the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and the Global Business Travel Association.
Clinton's two-year speaking tour, which took place after she resigned as secretary of state, "puts her in the position of having to disavow that money is an influence on her while at the same time backing campaign reform based on the influence on money," said Noble, a former general counsel at the Federal Election Commission. "It ends up creating the appearance of influence."
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CNBC/AP: Firms that paid for Clinton speeches have U.S. gov't interests (Original Post)
grasswire
Apr 2016
OP
Sorry folks Democracy is on hold while I take my marching orders from big money!But I feel your pain
insta8er
Apr 2016
#10
Why the DNC and every Dem bigwig has done everything possible to shove this terrible candidate
mhatrw
Apr 2016
#14
Pure shenanigans, not for a 'candidate for public office'. What is she thinking?
ViseGrip
Apr 2016
#15
grasswire
(50,130 posts)1. Hat tip to new DU member Kapola12 nt
Uncle Joe
(58,391 posts)2. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, grasswire.
Merryland
(1,134 posts)3. another WOW . This mess, including the emails, will not end well at all. n/t
grasswire
(50,130 posts)4. Incidentally, Tweety, THIS is where the corruption lies re: speaking fees.
And heck, Tweety......doesn't GE, mentioned above, own MSNBC???
Well, well, well.
Tweety on MSNBC bashing Bernie for calling out corruption. MSNBC owned by GE. GE on the list of corporations paying HRC off for influence.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)5. Just about every firm in the country has "US government interests"
Non-story.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)6. keep peddling! nt
doc03
(35,362 posts)12. No need telling the truth they won't beleive it n/t
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)7. thanks grasswire!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)8. Who can make imagine American companies like GE getting a government contract?
Clearly Joe Blow LLC would have been a better choice.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)9. I'mWithTheCorruptOne.
Not.
insta8er
(960 posts)10. Sorry folks Democracy is on hold while I take my marching orders from big money!But I feel your pain
amborin
(16,631 posts)11. all of this will be fully exposed
doc03
(35,362 posts)13. The are very few companies in exsitance in the USA that don't
have some kind of government interests, but I guess that makes her guilty of something.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)14. Why the DNC and every Dem bigwig has done everything possible to shove this terrible candidate
down our collective throats is completely beyond me.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)15. Pure shenanigans, not for a 'candidate for public office'. What is she thinking?
Samantha
(9,314 posts)16. Is this drip, drip, drip
the start of a leaking? Dare I hope?
Sam