2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHilllary's BIGGEST Super Pac contributers "Are Major Benifactors of TPP"
Hilllary's BIGGEST Super Pac contributers "Are Major Benifactors of TPP"The folks with the most to gain by the TPP just LOVE Hillary
Too bad most of us here are not members of the 1%
So far, Clintons campaign has raised $97,763,283, according to figures released on Oct. 16 by OpenSecrets, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics. Her campaign committee raised $77,471,604, while super PACs and other outside groups raised $20,291,679.
Top donors to her campaign include powerful law firms like Morgan & Morgan, which donated $277,326, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld which gave $133,756. In July, journalist Lee Fang revealed in The Intercept that Akin Gump has been hired to lobby for candidates from both major parties, including Clinton and Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush. In addition to their direct donations, Fang wrote that lobbyists like Akin Gump help drive presidential campaigns through soliciting major donations to super PACs.
Another top donor, the materials corporation Corning, Inc., which gave $209,100 to Clintons campaign, was criticized in 2011 by the nonpartisan group Public Campaign for spending millions on lobbying while paying no taxes between 2008 and 2010. Citizens For Tax Justice reported that Corning received $4 million in tax rebates during the same period. In 2012, Susan Ford, a top executive at Corning, testified before Congress to argue for a lower corporate tax rate, according to ThinkProgress.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/lawyers-investment-bankers-hollywood-media-among-hillary-clintons-top-donors/210769/
peacebird
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(53,475 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Scuba
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(17,644 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)are unlikely to benefit from the TPP and it had a tonic effect if you catch my drift
Jarqui
(10,125 posts)Memo to progressives: Hillary Clinton is lying to you
All politicians flip-flop. But Clinton's TPP opposition marks one of the more brazen U-turns in recent history
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/08/memo_to_progressives_hillary_clinton_is_lying_to_you/
A Timeline Of Hillary Clinton's Evolution On Trade
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/21/401123124/a-timeline-of-hillary-clintons-evolution-on-trade
There's ample evidence to establish Hillary as a chronic flip-flopper on trade. Starting with NAFTA, she's done it over her career in Washington. Those articles above cannot be seriously refuted. Those are the facts. From those facts, Major Benefactors of TPP put their money down on Hillary to flip-flop again. Probably not a bad bet.