2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHRC Emails Show Betrayed Voters: Promised Oppose Colombia FTA, Then Lobbied & Voted For It:
During her 2008 presidential run, Clinton said she opposed the deal because I am very concerned about the history of violence against trade unionists in Colombia. She later declared, I oppose the deal. I have spoken out against the deal, I will vote against the deal, and I will do everything I can to urge the Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
But newly released emails show that as secretary of state, Clinton was personally lobbying Democratic members of Congress to support the deal, even promising one senior lawmaker that the deal would extend labor protections to Colombian workers that would be as good or better than those enjoyed by many workers in the United States.
One of the 2011 emails from Clinton to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Clinton aide Robert Hormats has a subject line Sandy Levin a reference to the Democratic congressman who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy.
In the email detailing her call with Levin, she said the Michigan lawmaker appreciates the changes that have been made, the national security arguments and Santos's reforms -- the latter presumably a reference to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. She concludes the message about the call with Levin by saying, I told him that at the rate we were going, Columbian [sic] workers were going to end up w the same or better rights than workers in Wisconsin and Indiana and, maybe even, Michigan.
Froman a former Citigroup executive who as trade representative was lobbying for passage of the deal responded by thanking Clinton for her "help and support. Hormats, a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs who subsequently was hired by Clinton at the State Department, later chimed in, telling her terrific job and GREAT line on Columbian [sic] workers!!!!!
http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-pushes-colombia-free-trade-agreement-latest-email-dump-2326068
NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)...the Job-Killing TPP. The Clintons have always backed these Globalist, Plutocratic trade deals.
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)elljay
(1,178 posts)Hillary has not condemned the concept of the TPP nor the worst part- the arbitration panels. She opposes "the wording" and the current local origination clauses. These will be amended a small bit then she will again proclaim it the gold standard.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)I think we're being feed a few good lines during this campaign as well.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)potisok
(115 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Funny how that works.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Read this again:
I told him that at the rate we were going, Columbian workers were going to end up w the same or better rights than workers in Wisconsin and Indiana and, maybe even, Michigan.
After years of regressive trade policies pushed by both Republicans and Third Way Democrats, these workers have less than half the rights they did just 30 years ago.
God, she's scum.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)This kind of duplicity is exactly why I don't support her, and it isn't just her, it's all the Third Way types, they tell us one thing at election time while they work for the opposite behind our backs. They've been doing this for at least 30 years.
Time to stop supporting such candidates and policies!!!