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kpete

(72,904 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 08:13 PM Sep 2014

2 Former Senators/Whores For $$$ ---Hired By Russia To Lobby AGAINST US Sanctions Against Russia [View all]

And the latest example of American patriotism

Gazprombank GPB (OJSC), a Russian bank targeted with sanctions by President Obama over the Ukraine crisis, has hired two former U.S. senators to lobby against those sanctions, according to a new disclosure filed with the Senate.

Gazprombank is controlled by Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom, the country’s largest gas producer; it supplies about a third of Europe’s natural gas.

In a filing submitted Friday and effective that day, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former Senator John Breaux, D-La., are listed as the main lobbyists under the Gazprombank account for the firm Squire Patton Boggs, lobbying on “banking laws and regulations including applicable sanctions.”

Lotts name is especially outrageous given the number of times the GOP has accused Obama of being a traitor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/russian-bank-trent-lott_n_5754098.html

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Lott is such a hypocrite and ass. nt Ilsa Sep 2014 #1
You mad, breaux? Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2014 #9
DUzy! riqster Sep 2014 #14
Oh Yeah!! LOL. nt Ilsa Sep 2014 #18
their loyalty is to the mighty dollar....nothing else matters spanone Sep 2014 #2
Now THAT is beyond belief. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #3
Absolutely disgusting. Laurian Sep 2014 #4
Trent Lott for Russia.. Putin and his supporters are in good hands... Cha Sep 2014 #5
For sale: 2 used US Senators. Bad credit. No credit. No problem.... think Sep 2014 #6
I'm surprised you haven't been alerted on TransitJohn Sep 2014 #7
I think the usage is appropriate groundloop Sep 2014 #12
So do a lot of other people who use the words appropriately in their own posts TransitJohn Sep 2014 #13
I always thought that whores could be male or female. pennylane100 Sep 2014 #26
I've alerted the grammar police since "whores for money" is redundant. PeaceNikki Sep 2014 #28
k&r. Thanks for posting. nm rhett o rick Sep 2014 #8
Politicians lobby for the energy industry? Say it ain't so. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #10
Uh, I'll take Treason for $1000. EEO Sep 2014 #11
How is it treason to legally lobby the government? RB TexLa Sep 2014 #20
What are their DU names? DavidDvorkin Sep 2014 #15
Ha! navarth Sep 2014 #16
hanging us with our own rope, in Lotts' case, lynching us with our own rope. whereisjustice Sep 2014 #17
So America can impose economic sanctions on another country, but can not stop the same Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #19
Can Palestine? salib Sep 2014 #21
China has sanctions on it? And what does Palestine have to put sanctions on, not being a country. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #22
China because it opposes US sanctions against Russia salib Sep 2014 #24
corporations owned by corrupt foreign dictators and plutocrats are people, my friend nt geek tragedy Sep 2014 #25
Paging Dr. Guillotine . . . paging Dr. Guillotine . . . OldRedneck Sep 2014 #23
I'll wait to see what RT says about this. zappaman Sep 2014 #27
I'm starting to understand why growing numbers on the left and right Blue_Tires Sep 2014 #29
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