With so many stories of HILLARY'S BUCK-RAKING this reprehensible example got lost in the wash.

[snagglepuss]

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...there's something very important to see that is different from the past stories. This time, it's about Hillary Clinton having her pockets lined by the very people who seek to influence her. Not in some metaphorical sense. She's literally being paid by them.

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During Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, Corning lobbied the department on a variety of trade issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The company has donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to her family's foundation. And last July, when it was clear that Clinton would again seek the presidency in 2016, Corning coughed up a $225,500 honorarium for Clinton to speak.

In the laundry whirl of stories about Clinton buck-raking, it might be easy for that last part to get lost in the wash. But it's the part that matters most. The $225,500 speaking fee didn't go to help disease-stricken kids in an impoverished village on some long-forgotten patch of the planet. Nor did it go to a campaign account. It went to Hillary Clinton. Personally.

The latest episode in the Clinton money saga is different from the others because it involves the clear, direct personal enrichment of Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate, by people who have a lot of money at stake in the outcome of government decisions. Her federally required financial disclosure was released to media late Friday, a time government officials and political candidates have long reserved for dumping news they hope will have a short shelf life.

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There's a solid set of companies and associations that had nothing to do with the foundation but lobbied State while Clinton was there and then paid for her to speak to them. Xerox, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, in addition to Corning, all lobbied Clinton's department on trade matters and then invited her to earn an easy check.


http://www.vox.com/2015/5/16/8614881/Hillary-Clinton-took-money





So let's be clear -


During Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, Corning lobbied the department about a number of issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and donated between $100,000 to $250,000 to the foundation. In July 2014, Corning funded a $225,000 honorarium for Clinton to speak, and that money went not to a campaign account but to Hillary Clinton personally, as Vox reported.

[Merryland]

1. disgusting

what else can you say?

[PatrickforO]

2. Something stinks in here...

[bbgrunt]

3. but she was "broke" when she left the white house--poor dear. k and r

[bkkyosemite]

6. And no furniture so she stole some

[LonePirate]

4. We have billionaires running for office and you're up in arms over a $250K speaking fee?

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If your primary concern is that she promised favors for them if elected in exchange for that fee, then prove it. If you are so convinced that something illegal is afoot, then start investigating it. Otherwise you're just using Joe McCarthy tactics to scare people and blackball others.

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Thank you for your very

reasonable post.

[snagglepuss]

7. I don't need to prove it because that question is part of current FBI investigations.

[LonePirate]

9. The FBI investigation is about possible security breaches, not alleged bribery for future action.

[snagglepuss]

10. Wrong. The Clinton Foundation is part of the FBI's investigation.

[Raster]

8. How are we supposed to prove it? Are there recordings of her speeches? Transcripts available?

All we have is Hillary Clinton's assertion that the millions of dollars paid to her are just "honorariums" for speaking.

[snagglepuss]

12. Don't forget that the Clinton Foundation is part of the FBI investigation into the emails.

[mooseprime]

11. Well, the facts do have a known anti-Clinton bias

to paraphrase Colbert

[snagglepuss]

13. LoL. Great line. nt