Liberals are preparing blacklists of appointees they want Hillary Clinton to avoid

[TexasTowelie]

Liberal advocacy groups are preparing blacklists of candidates for appointments to a Hillary Clinton administration, with one organization even producing opposition research to torpedo contenders they consider too soft on Wall Street or other corporate interests.

Planning for a Democratic victory on Nov. 8, these interest groups and like-minded lawmakers are laying the groundwork to push Clinton, if she is elected, to prove her progressive bona fides through early legislation and personnel appointments.

One liberal group has already forwarded 150 names of acceptable appointees for economic positions to Clinton’s transition team, while others on the left are engaged in opposition research against prospects for administration jobs whom they see as unacceptable.

Leading liberal lawmakers – including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. – have also started conveying, privately and publicly, guidance on top Clinton appointees and legislative priorities.

Read more: https://www.abqjournal.com/877220/liberals-are-preparing-blacklists-of-appointees-they-want-hillary-clinton-to-avoid.html

[MADem]

1. Hillary will win in a landslide, and threats are not the way to start off

a new administration, IMO.

Trying to tell Clinton who she can and can't hire? That's a sure way to get the heave-ho and your name on the WH blacklist.

Guidance, OTOH, is always welcomed. HRC is not stupid, and she's far more liberal on many issues than some people think.

Maybe this is just a shittily-written article, but the tone of it is very off-putting. They don't cut to the chase until the end--it's almost buried because it doesn't create the "drama" that media crave:

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said that as president, Clinton would champion the same progressive priorities that she has since the Democratic primaries.

“The same people who are trying to cast doubt on how she would approach her presidency were predicting she’d make some sort of pivot in the general election, and that hasn’t happened,” Fallon said, adding that Clinton looks forward to working with progressive lawmakers to implement her agenda.

[marybourg]

2. I hope she will not name any Publicans at least.

After what one such appointee just did to her.

[n2doc]

8. +1000 n/t

[tenaciousdem]

3. I hope like hell

they stop using email to communicate anything. if you've got something to say, say it in person.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Good.

She's going to be needed to be pushed -- and hard -- to live up to her campaign rhetoric.

[Solly Mack]

6. Good. There is no way to appease the GOP. They want what they want and only what they want.

No good in pretending a republican in the cabinet (or elsewhere) somehow promotes unity.

[icymist]

7. We need to win the election first. Then worry about pushing an agenda.