BREAKING: Hillary Strategist Currently Providing PR For Wall Street Banks

[Halliburton]

On the call, Benenson accused Sanders of going negative, asserting the U.S. senator from Vermont had “decided to do something that he had said so proudly he would never do.” What the Clinton campaign did not say when announcing the call is that Benenson’s firm not only consults for Clinton — it also lists as clients the kind of Wall Street banks that Sanders’ ad assails, as the Intercept’s Lee Fang pointed out.

According to its website, the Benenson Strategy Group lists Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase among its clients. In a 2012 press release, Benenson listed JPMorgan Chase — whose executives are collectively among Clinton’s top 2016 donors — as an example of how the firm “has guided many Fortune 500 companies and leading advocacy groups through critical strategic and communication challenges.” The section of Benenson’s website listing the banks as clients says the firm is focused on “delivering strategies corporations need to stay ahead of the curve.” Other clients listed include McDonald's, Pfizer and Walmart — the last of which once had Hillary Clinton on its board of directors when she was first lady of Arkansas.

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-strategist-attacks-bernie-sanders-anti-wall-street-ad-while-his

[CorporatistNation]

1. K and R! No Surprise Here... SOP!

Rachel might want to mention such a thing if she was a real journalist...

[zeemike]

6. I don't think you can work for the MSM and be a real journalist.

Not allowed if you want the big check.

[scottie55]

15. Rachel Did Find This Bridge Thing

Though.

"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" as I recall.

[questionseverything]

24. i think rachel tells as much truth as she can and still stay on air

n/t

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Halliburton.

[DRoseDARs]

3. I'm sure she'll tell him to cut it out... nt

[JRLeft]

4. Damn it's getting damn near impossible to get behind her if she's the nominee.

[Left Coast2020]

5. I'm shocked by this news

[highprincipleswork]

7. If it walks like a duck...

[Live and Learn]

8. Surprise, surprise .... nt

[draa]

9. surprise

Sorry, I just had to get Gomer Pyle into the conversation.

[libdem4life]

34. You forgot the other two... surprise, surprise.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. ...surprise

~original

[uponit7771]

11. So out of the millions of people who will work in the federal government Sanders will have not one

... Person associated with a bank near him !?!?!?!

This is the hypocrisy that turns into noise to ignore that's thrown in people's faces daily from Sanders camp; "...Sanders is beyond that.."

That's not what his past record shows... He can't throw a stone when it comes to bad associations

[notadmblnd]

26. Please provide links to that information

I'd like to see those records

[uponit7771]

41. NRA, I'm not a LIV... this is well known

[notadmblnd]

43. IOW, you pulled this from your hiney.

I thought so. Because if you were not a low information voter, you would have those links in your bookmarks.

[uponit7771]

44. Or one of his first elections?! Really?!

[arcane1]

29. Nobody claims he won't have "one person associated with a bank near him"

That's a strawman. It's a fictitious claim.

[uponit7771]

42. That's not the claim but the expectation of Clinton seeing the number of threads in regards

... to her associations is gob smacking

[libdem4life]

35. Good lord. Please.

[JayhawkSD]

12. Doing a negative ad about her opponent going negative.

Is this moron unable to see the irony of his own hit job on Bernie? Doing a negative publication about Bernie doing negative campaigning. "He's saying bad things about us but we, of course, would never say anything bad about him." And, of course, you just did, you fool.

[Green Forest]

13. The Clintons and their mouthpieces have gone to the Dark Side. We are The Rebels fighting The Empire.

Joe Biden gets it. He's on our side.

[SoapBox]

14. Rotten to the core.

Does this idiot think that people won't connect the dots?

Of course when one is in the big money/big power/Wall Stree BUBBLE...he probably thinks no one will notice this crap.

[pnwmom]

17. There are no dots to connect. Show me a good consulting firm that does not

have a multitude of clients. They keep their separate accounts separate, as they are required to do.
Hillary is no more responsible for the other clients who hire this consultant than she is for the other people who hire lawyers for legal work.

[rhett o rick]

40. We are fighting the corruption of the Big Money. Big Money that gives H. Clinton

millions of dollars for "speaking fees". Democrats should all be against the corruption of Big Money in our government. But not the HRC campaign. They can't get enough of the Big Money. And HRC supporters pretend they don't understand quid pro quo.

[pnwmom]

16. Legal firms, consulting firms, and lobbying firms do work for a variety of clients.

Benenson offers his services to clients just as lawyers do. Hillary is no more responsible for his other clients than she would be if she hired a law firm for legal work.

[JonLeibowitz]

22. There is one difference -- lawyers have a code of conduct. Lobbying/PR firms do not.

[pnwmom]

23. That's irrelevant. She went to a top firm so of course other people use that firm.

People here are just casting aspersions because they can, with no evidence except their own suspicious natures.

[silverweb]

18. So now drawing policy contrasts is "going negative," huh?

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]While the "worthy opposition" has been attacking regularly - with surrogates, distortions, and outright lies, yet.

Bernie has never run a negative campaign in terms of personal attacks and is not now. To say that means he can't criticize policy positions and draw contrasts between himself and his opponents is just stupid.


[font color="purple"]Go, Bernie!
Feelin' The Bern!

[libdem4life]

36. Perhaps the appropriate response is...what information is not factual? (Love The Wave)

[silverweb]

37. Perhaps, but why be redundant?

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]That's a question that has been thoroughly answered already by very qualified others.

Glad you like the wave!

[Chakab]

19. So is it still a "regurgitation of right wing talking points" to talk about the fact that she's

surrounded by Wall Street shills and is overly sympathetic to corporate America?

[EdwardBernays]

20. Her campaign manager

Owns a Lobbying firm that lobby for Bank of America, weapons manufacturers and Saudi Arabia.

[yuiyoshida]

21. oh my

my my my....

[geek tragedy]

25. I'd love to have Benenson working for Bernie.

He's very possibly the best political pollster in the country.

[emulatorloo]

30. Yep, would have been a real asset

Lots of knees jerking tonight. Hope you don't get crucified.

[geek tragedy]

31. I try to behave as a real human being instead of as a

partisan robot.

[Rose Siding]

27. He also does senior communications and polling for Obama's White House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Benenson

Doesn't look like a boogie man to me but he gasp is a businessman.

[geek tragedy]

32. Ironically, Benenson was the driving force behind

Obama's attacks on Clinton's character in 2008.


So his pearl-clutching is kind of funny.

[John Poet]

28. So I guess you could say that Hillary's strategy,

is the Wall Street bank strategy!!!!

LOL outstanding revelation, really. Too funny.

[HassleCat]

33. Seems OK to me

"I know you give me loads of money, but I am going to crack down on you so you can't give me so much money." What's wrong with that? Sounds perfectly plausible to me.

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. As IF that's a surprise.

[azmom]

39. Busted