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Rebkeh

(2,450 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 07:37 PM May 2016

About the convention

Thought you all might like to know about this:

Democratic Convention Hosted by Republican Donors, Anti-Obamacare Lobbyists

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S 2012 platform pledged to “curb the influence of lobbyists and special interests.” But the 2016 convention in Philadelphia will be officially hosted by lobbyists and corporate executives, a number of whom are actively working to undermine progressive policies achieved by President Barack Obama, including health care reform and net neutrality.

Some of the members of the 2016 Democratic National Convention Host Committee, whose job is to organize the logistics and events for the convention, are hardly even Democratic Party stalwarts, given that many have donated and raised thousands of dollars for Republican presidential and congressional candidates this cycle.

(The Intercept_, Lee Fang, 5/11/16)


For more plus details: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/11/lobbyists-dnc-2016-convention/
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About the convention (Original Post) Rebkeh May 2016 OP
Nothing to see here, just another game of good cop/bad cop. No collusion whatsoever! arcane1 May 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author cyberpj May 2016 #2
Good God pmorlan1 May 2016 #3
I am too. I rarely watch the news anymore, it makes me ill...n/t monmouth4 May 2016 #4
Not a surprise, but still Dark n Stormy Knight May 2016 #5
K&R. nt silvershadow May 2016 #6
yes. democracy now! had hopemountain May 2016 #7

Response to Rebkeh (Original post)

pmorlan1

(2,096 posts)
3. Good God
Wed May 11, 2016, 07:51 PM
May 2016

I encourage everyone to read this piece to see how bad our Party has become.

And this....This is the guy who said Bernie supporters need to behave at the convention. Check it out.

The Philadelphia Host Committee chair, former Gov. Ed Rendell, headed for Wall Street as soon as he left office, and has since represented a number of controversial special interests. In 2011, as New York was debating regulations on fracking, Rendell wrote a pro-fracking opinion column in the New York Daily News, while failing to disclose that he was a paid consultant at a private equity firm that had investments in the industry.

That same year, Rendell started providing paid speeches on behalf of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a fringe Iranian exile group that was considered a terrorist organization by the State Department at the time (it was delisted in 2012).

The former governor also joined the group Fix The Debt — an organization backed by private equity billionaire Pete Peterson that advocates for cutting Social Security benefits — co-chairing its activities alongside Judd Gregg.

Rendell is currently a special counsel at the law and lobbying firm Ballard Spahr; earlier this year, the firm launched a new election law group, advising clients on campaign finance and lobbying strategy.


I'm so disgusted.

hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
7. yes. democracy now! had
Thu May 12, 2016, 03:10 AM
May 2016

people on tuesday who spoke about this very real - reality.
you know the very sponsors of the convention will have law enforcement in riot gear on the ready for both conventions.

disgusting the very thing so many of us believed in is all a huge charade. the only thing that is real is the corruption.



peace for bernie and all of his delegates at the convention. it will be very tricky.

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