Clinton Campaign FUNDRAISES With PRO-TPP LOBBY FIRM As Congress Reschedules Trade Vote

[Segami]

While Hillary Clinton continues to hedge her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the related issue of trade promotion authority, her campaign is partnering with a pro-TPP/TPA law and lobby firm to raise cash. The House Rules Committee held an “emergency meeting” at 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday to plan how to move forward with TPA.

At 5:00 p.m., the Clinton campaign was holding a Washington, D.C. fundraiser with the McGuireWoods law firm’s PAC. According to lobby registration documents, the firm’s McGuireWoods Consulting subsidiary is lobbying on behalf of Smithfield Foods to help pass both the TPP and TPA.

Despite mounting pressure to take a position, Clinton has only provided non-commital answers regarding her stance on both TPP and TPA. On Sunday, at a rally in Iowa, Clinton said there should be better protections for American workers and called for the president to work with Democrats in Congress — hardly a clarifying statement. Earlier that day, her chief pollster dismissed a call from ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos to provide a clear stance on TPA, casting the issue as simply “Washington inside baseball.”


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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/18/congress-scrambles-reschedule-trade-promotion-vote-clintons-campaign-hosts-fundraiser-tpp-lobbying-firm/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Washington Inside Baseball - the game is fixed. Washington always wins, we lose.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

36. I'm sick of this crap. People need to rise up and let these phony politicians know we're not puttin up with this shit anymore.

[840high]

40. Do it in the voting booth. I plan to. Had enough.

[Juicy_Bellows]

54. Inside basketball is more like it.

Ironically, the people's team always seems to be the Generals, despite being from Washington. They'll Globe trot with the TPP all over our collective asses.

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

2. That's what it's to them - a fucking game.

Russian roulette with our lives.

Fuck that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. How can ANYONE back her when she behaves like this?

I am deeply angry and disappointed.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Because it's her turn

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Good thing you added the "sarcasm" smiley!

[antigop]

14. several reasons

1) they will benefit from the TPP
2) they do not feel they will be harmed by the TPP
3) they want a female

[daleanime]

28. Left out the most important....

4) must be corporate owned

[MisterP]

35. 0) they really and genuinely believe she's against war, fracking, neoliberalism, etc.

[JDPriestly]

30. I agree, Peggy.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

37. As am I Peggy, but surprised I'm not.

[Gloria]

4. Ultimately, it's all about the lesser of 2 evils

Sigh...

[elleng]

9. No, it's not.

O'Malley on TPA: “I’m fundamentally opposed to anything we’re not allowed to read-that’s un-American.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026644381

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

13. Have you seen the latest polls on O'Malley?

He's rising.... to 2%? from 2%?

I like him too, but he's winding up as an afterthought of Bernie vs Clinton, and Bernie's going to win out because at the end, it'll be principles before party loyalty - because we need changes and I agree with O'Malley about everything except for his L&O issues....

In addition I found this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601158.html - not sure if you have read this, which makes me leery of which way he truly stands for.

[elleng]

17. Who with 1/2 a mind selects a candidate due to polls?

I choose a candidate for reasons of substance, NOT because others might choose someone else at a particular moment.

as to 'L&O,' he

Repealed death penalty; reduced prison incarceration. (Jan 2014)
Root out prison gangs and prison guard corruption. (Jun 2013)
Repeal the death penalty: it does not work. (May 2013)
Additional funding to hire correctional and police officers. (Jan 2007)

http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Martin_O%60Malley_Crime.htm

[antigop]

19. I would suggest you look here for your answer...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1107

[elleng]

21. No thanks;

I have my answer.

[Maedhros]

45. elleng, I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter, But I have to commend you on your efforts

on behalf of O'Malley. I appreciate your integrity.

[elleng]

59. Thanks, Meadhros.

We're together on many issues.

[sabrina 1]

22. Fortunately this time it is not. Bernie Sanders is the candidate we have been waiting for for

a long time. Voted against the Iraq War, against the Patriot Act, against the TPP, against DOMA, against NAFTA. If people really want what they say they want, they have an opportunity now to get it.

Next to Sanders, there is O'Malley who would be my second choice. I wish he would, like Bernie, refuse to take Corporate funding. THAT is how to get the money out of politics, when candidates stand up and say, as Bernie has, 'I don't want their money'. THAT is why he is free to be as truthful as he is, to name names, because he is beholden ONLY to the people.

And he is going to win. As he said, don't listen to them telling us 'he isn't electable', THAT is what they want you to believe'.

He has been elected so many times, by huge majories, you have to wonder who these people are who say such a ridiculous thing. IF the people vote for him, he will win, it's that simple.

[Gloria]

38. To clarify, I wasn't talking about the primaries

It seems lately I've had to hold my nose nearly every time I vote, esp. as everyting has shifted right. The Dems are specialists at either caving to or "trusting" the GOP only to get screwed..and they don't seem to learn from tnis...it wasn't always this way...

[840high]

42. So stop holding your

nose. You can always write in a name.

[sabrina 1]

44. Bernie will win the nomination if people simply vote for him. And I think, like you, a whole lot of

people are done holding their noses. That is why his campaign has been going so well. No more lesser evil, or holding noses, not when there is a choice.

I remember when people didn't think Obama had a chance either. If people had allowed their fears of a Repub wining they would not have voted for Obama.

We have this one chance to get a president who actually works for us. I know I am going to take it.

[Gloria]

52. I am sort of fatalistic about people who are on the "outside"

I keep thinking about Paul Wellstone...

[sabrina 1]

53. I used to be, but times have changed, and the truth is people are only on the outside if we

don't get behind them. The more people who support him, the harder it will be for anyone to try to stop him.

[djean111]

57. I am not playing that stupid game any more. n/t

[cantbeserious]

5. I Will No Longer Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[elleng]

8. O'Malley on TPA: “I’m fundamentally opposed to anything we’re not allowed to read-that’s un-American

[elleng]

7. Surprised?

O'Malley on TPA: “I’m fundamentally opposed to anything we’re not allowed to read-that’s un-American.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026644381

[yourout]

12. Once a thread is probably enough.

[elleng]

15. First, this was the first time I posted this on this thread;

Second, DUers MUST learn about him.

Third, there is no such rule.

yourout.

[yourout]

16. #7, #8, and #9 look pretty much the same to me.

I never said it was a rule just a bit of courtesy to not polute threads with repetitive posts.

[elleng]

18. They are the same; this was the first.

THIS is NOT pollution.

[yourout]

10. For it before she is against it so she can be for it again.

Quite the tap dance.

[Juicy_Bellows]

20. She'd give Gregory Hines a "challenge".

[sadoldgirl]

23. In another OP I read that due

to state rules Bernie may not even be on the ballot.

If they keep this up, they will find that HRC will lose
the GE, because too many Dems -especially the younger
generation - will boycott the election out of disgust.

Naturally the Bernie supporters will be blamed, but
actually to the Third Way it does not make any
difference. It is only the money that counts.

[Luminous Animal]

25. Howard Dean, also not a registered Democrat, was on all the state's ballots.

But I'll bet you that the Hillary legal team is working overtime to see how they can successfully keep him off the ballots even though Dean faced no such problem qualifying.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

39. Trust me LA, that strategy will backfire big-time.

[sabrina 1]

24. Money is the reason why she cannot state her opinions freely. When you are beholden to Big Corps,

if that is what you think you need to win, then you represent their interests. No one gives a politician billions of dollars just because it's a nice thing to do.

And that is why Sanders has refused to take their money, and that is why he is free to tell the truth to the people to whom HE is beholden.

[colsohlibgal]

27. Exactly

It amazes me that so many Hillary supporters seem oblivious to this or don't care. They must be fine with third way neo democrats - republican lite.

[Segami]

29. After she kissed 'the ring'....

...she is beholden.

"...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels." - Hillary Clinton

[Fuddnik]

33. Did he teach her how to pull off the coup in Honduras?

[Art_from_Ark]

48. Well, he did have a bit of experience along that line in South America as I recall

He also, er, convinced Jimmy Carter to allow the Shah of Iran to enter the United States

http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_01-03/dauherty_shah/dauherty_shah.html

Quite a counselor, that Henry Kissinger.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

41. Who can forget that treachery?

[Jack Rabbit]

34. Does she even know or care what her opinion is?

Does a typical politician nowadays know or care what his opinion is?

[onecaliberal]

26. This is not a surprise. She was always for it.

[Jack Rabbit]

31. OK, that's a ten-yard penalty against Mrs. C.

Still first down, but now 20 yards to go.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

43. Yeahh, but with all the other penalties, it's game over.

[Jack Rabbit]

55. Not yet it isn't

She is supported by the oligarchs and, as Senator Warren likes to remind us, the game is rigged.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

58. You might be right. But I gotta believe that Hillary's defeat is assured as her hypocrisy and phony progressivism is continually exposed...

Hillary can't keep up this act for long; eventually she'll have to answer to the people on Main Street, not Wall Street, and explain her out-of-touch positions on the issues of the day.

When that happens, watch Bernie surge even more than he already has.

[tularetom]

32. If this turkey passes (as seems likely) and turns out to be the POS we all expect

(which is virtually a certainty) she's going to wish she doesn't get elected president.

Because her lack of opposition will be viewed as approval and she will be the one facing the angry peasants.

If she had the guts to come right out and oppose the thing now, it might be different, but she obviously believes she can continue to finesse it and hope it's forgotten by the time the election arrives. Unfortunately for her, the effects of this terrible trade deal will be quite apparent by the time of the election and that strategery won't work.

Obama can just sit back and chortle as she gets the blame for the mess he caused.

[SoapBox]

46. Ugh.

I'll work and vote for Bernie.

[AzDar]

47. ELECT BERNIE SANDERS!!

[madokie]

50. We are going to try

that can be counted on to be the way it is

[delrem]

49. It's unfortunate that such a commanding lead, by pure $$$ and influence,

has to be whittled away.
But it will be.

It has to be.

[Man from Pickens]

51. You can be certain

that in the offices of these lobbyists and their clients, HRC's position on TPP is not ambiguous.

[WillyT]

60. K & R !!!

[rhett o rick]

61. The 2016 election will be the 1% vs. the 99%. Whose side are you on?

Guess whose side I am on.