From the Intercept
Hillary Clinton is campaigning as a guardian of President Barack Obama’sprogressive policy accomplishments. In recent weeks, she has called the Affordable Care Act “one of the greatest accomplishments of President Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of our country,” and promised that she is “going to defend Dodd-Frank” and “defend President Obama for taking on Wall Street.”
Meanwhile, however, Clinton’s campaign has been relying on a team of strategists and fundraisers, many of whom spent much of the last seven years as consultants or lobbyists for business interests working to obstruct Obama’s agenda in those two areas.
Staffers like Charles Baker III who’s lobbying company Dewey Square Grouphas fought against many progressive policies, and he’s not the only one from that company that is on her staff. Several others are as well.
Here’s some of the shady things Dewey has done.
One of the more deceptive components of the Dewey lobbying strategy was uncovered when an editor at the Lawrence, Massachusetts, Eagle-Tribune realized that the firm had worked quietly to place letters to the editor against cuts to Medicare Advantage under the names of elderly Massachusetts residents without their knowledge or consent.
And we all already know about Elmendorf who worked against Dodd-Frank and has a history of being hired by banks to convince legislatures to not regulate banks, he was even in attendence at the last debate.
Then there's this lovely lady:
Heather Podesta is one of the most prolific fundraisers for the Clinton campaign, having personally raised at least $348,581, according to recently filed disclosures. In 2009 and 2010, Podesta worked as lobbyist for the health insurance company Cigna. While working for Cigna to influence the health reform bill, Cigna was one of several large health insurers to secretly provide over $86 million in secret payments used to air negative television and radio advertisements to defeat the law. Heather Podesta is one of several lobbyists now fundraising for the campaign who previously worked for insurance interests to influence health reform. Irene Bueno, a fundraiser who raised $26,675, lobbied on behalf of CareMore (a division of health insurer Anthem) and Blue Shield of California to influence health reform as the bill was being debated. Bueno and Podesta did not respond to a request for comment.
The article lists a few more. Between the lobbyists working on her campaign, countries like Algeria, Oman and Qatar donating to her fund, www.mcclatchydc.com/… , her being best buds with Kissinger and now Albright condemning women to hell, the old adage of you can tell a lot about people by who they associate with seems more and more apropos.
I have yet to see anyone give me a logical reason why she would accept money from nations that are human rights abusers. Sanders gave the jackass Shkreli donation to charity www.huffingtonpost.com/..., why don’t Hillary and Bill?