Hillary Clinton’s Congressional Black Caucus PAC Endorsement Approved By Board Awash in Lobbyists

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: The Intercept

Lee Fang

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday, a move that is being widely interpreted as a sign of her deep support from the African American community. As they made their announcement, CBC PAC officials downplayed Bernie Sanders’s proposals for poverty reduction and tuition-free college as unrealistic, while touting Clinton as a bold leader.

Some of the members who spoke at the event, held at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, anticipated the same kind of criticism that the Sanders campaign has made of some other Washington-based leadership groups that have endorsed Clinton. “We are not from the establishment, we are from the streets,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.

But the Congressional Black Caucus PAC is not the same thing as the Congressional Black Caucus, which is made up of 46 members of Congress. Indeed, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a Sanders supporter, made that point on Twitter:



Ellison then said in another tweet that “endorsements should be the product of a fair open process. Didn’t happen.”

FULL story at link.

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/11/congressional-black-caucus-hillary/

[questionseverything]

1. ...

Not all CBC members have embraced the Clinton endorsement. Speaking this morning on Democracy Now, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., a CBC member, said she has not endorsed in Democratic primary, and reminded viewers that the CBC “has nothing to do with the” CBC PAC, which is a legally distinct entity. NBC Capitol Hill producer Frank Thorp tweeted that Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., was one of two abstentions on the CBC PAC board.

[arcane1]

2. Money from tobacco, drug companies, for-profit prisons, and student loans. Clinton's base.

And people are treating this like some kind of progressive endorsement. With a straight face!

[guillaumeb]

3. But if one only reads the title of the post it sounds good. eom

[w4rma]

4. That's slimy.

"And a significant percentage of the $7,000 raised this cycle by the CBC PAC was donated by white lobbyists, including Vic Fazio, who represents Philip Morris and served for years as a lobbyist to Corrections Corporation of America, and David Adams, a former Clinton aide who now lobbies for Wal-Mart, the largest gun distributor in America."

[SoapBox]

21. Speaking those For-Profit Prisons...

Where does the CBC stand on those?

Are they working to get rid of these places that need more and more and more prisoners, to feed itself?

All this CBC / CBCPAC stuff got me wondering.

[Dustlawyer]

5. How can we think of electing such a low down, dirty candidate as HRC?

This is the type of corruption that proves the need to elect Bernie to help us fight to eliminate Big Money's control over our government! The more low down crap, the more the proof that supporting Bernie is not only right, but necessary!

HRC is giving advanced lessons on the "Artful Smear!"

[Cryptoad]

6. Whiners never win, Winners never Whine

[retrowire]

16. Nice, a phrase that looks and sounds wise and eloquent.

But is nothing but poetry.

[sulphurdunn]

24. "If you let the sunshine in..." it is unlikey

many Clinton supporters "will open up their hearts face it with a grin."

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. Everything I'd heard was she was endorced by the CBC, not some PAC.

The big lie. They are experts at it in the Hillary camp. Goebbels would be proud.

[pangaia]

8. K&R +40000000000000000

[Kip Humphrey]

9. REAL HEADLINE: More establishment and lobbyist endorsements for Hillary!

YAWN.

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Thom Hartmann also mentioned this today on his radio show.

[Laurian]

11. Isn't this more GDP than LBN?

I've hidden GDP just so I don't have to see the intense bickering that results from posts such as this.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

14. Well, it's news to me, and it must have just broken since this is the first I've heard of it.

[Omaha Steve]

15. Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Slams Bernie Sanders

But that OP in LBN just before this story is LBN?

OS

[dreamnightwind]

12. Wow, I hope knowledge of this goes viral!

[azmom]

13. Wow. Now, isn't this interesting.

What a set up.

[TIME TO PANIC]

17. K & R!

[6000eliot]

18. Can we add some racism to the sexism now?

[geardaddy]

19. My rep!

Co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus!

[shawn703]

20. Gregory Meeks said "We are not from the establishment, we are from the streets."

Yet he is a member of the New Democratic Coalition, endorsed HRC in 2008, and one of CREW's most corrupt members of Congress.

Yeah, don't think SBS really needs this guy in his corner.

[SoapBox]

22. Exactly.

Those who live in glass houses...

[monicaangela]

23. It appears Clinton and her cohorts are trying

every trick in the book to sway the votes of PoC. I believe Clinton and her supporters in many cases underestimate the minority population in this nation.

[Sissyk]

25. Locking.

Host feel this in an opinion piece that belongs in GDP. Not Latest breaking news of national interest.

Please consider reposting there.

Thank You.