Hillary's Fundraising BUNDLER Lobbies For The Geo Group. This Is What Geo Thinks About America.

[Segami]

It’s no secret that the same folks who defend the private prison industry are also defending Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Richard Sullivan, of the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel, is a bundler for the Clinton campaign, bringing in $44,859 in contributions in a few short months. Sullivan is also a registered lobbyist for the Geo Group, a company that operates a number of jails, including immigrant detention centers, for profit.

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

What is the business philosophy of the Geo Group? Well, here’s what this for-profit prison corporation thinks about America — the hubris is breathtaking.

A senior executive with the second-largest for-profit prison company in America assured investment bankers last summer that despite talk of drug policy and criminal justice reform, the country will continue to “attract crime,” generating new “correctional needs.”

“The reality is, we are a very affluent country, we have loose borders, and we have a bad education system,” said Shayn March, the vice president and treasurer of the Geo Group. “And all that adds up to a significant amount of correctional needs, which, thankfully, we’ve been able to help the country out with and states with by providing a lower cost solution.”

The previously unreported remarks were made during a presentation at the Barclays High Yield Bond & Syndicated Loan conference in June.

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/22/geo-group-explains-crime/

Some in our community may be comfortable with Hillary aligning herself with individuals earning millions as lobbyists defending this kind of immoral, predatory capitalism. I, however, am not. But, sadly, because the Democratic Party seems intent to destroy the campaign of the only candidate who will seriously end private prisons — Bernie Sanders — folks like the Geo Group’s Shayn March can be the biggest assholes on the planet and know they will never, ever suffer any damage to their morally-repugnant “business.”



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/26/1463774/-Hillary-s-fundraising-bundler-lobbies-for-the-Geo-Group-This-is-what-Geo-thinks-about-America

[nc4bo]

1. Says one thing while campaignin' but enjoys the cash flow from the system she claims

she's against.....??

On the incredible yet classic scale, I give it a 9.5 out of 10!

[roguevalley]

39. it says a lot who you associate with

[CorporatistNation]

40. Educate or Incarcerate? That IS THE QUESTION! I Guess Hillary Is Going With The INCARCERATE Option

Which, DISPROPORTIONATELY results in the incarceration of non-whites to a huge degree.

Anyone else around here think that this fact needs to be distributed widely?

[davidpdx]

75. Yet though AA who support Clinton don't seem to have issues with any of her stances

especially this one. The scream about social issues while their candidate and her bundlers quietly support some of the most draconian policies, lock'em up in a private prison and throw away the key.

[Scuba]

86. I suspect the number of Black Americans who support Hillary is substantially overstated.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

53. The more I read, the more I hate Clinton.

I don't use the word "hate" often.

[CoffeeCat]

59. So offensive that our party

is leveraging her campaign through the DNC.

It's revolting and disgusting.

Hillary represents the absolute worst examples of political corruption.

And it's somehow the fault of the party faithful who don't want anything to do with this diseased mountain of corruption?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

64. It's revolting ...

... and represents the worst of party politics. We have a legitimate progressive who wants to represent us, and the DNC wants to foist this wretched human being on us.

Disgusting.

[CoffeeCat]

66. I'm kind of tired of their foisting

a terrible candidate who is offensive in all categories, but is also unelectable in a GE.

I can't wait to see who the HNC will leverage next. Maybe that dentist who shot Cecil the lion?

[840high]

77. As expected. I don't

believe a word she says.

[Scuba]

2. It would be difficult to overstate the level of hypocrisy coming from Hillary and her campaign.

The arrogance of flat out lying about your positions with impunity reminds me the Republicans. It's fucking scary.

[hobbit709]

3. But to her fan club here denial is just a river in Egypt.

[CoffeeCat]

60. They're not in denial

They know very well what she's all about.

They are ok with it.

[840high]

79. You are correct.

[davidpdx]

76. Take a look what I wrote in #75

I'd be interested to see if you agree with me based on your comment.

[Cassiopeia]

4. Let the real Hillary step forward.

She can spin like a top on the campaign trail and fool many, but in the end she's just another corporate shill that will focus on herself and her close friends at the top.

Bernie 2016! The top 1% has gotten enough, it's time for the plebes to get some of the gains of the last century back.

[Fuddnik]

7. It's easier to fool someone, than to convince them they've been fooled.

[BeanMusical]

78. +1 So true.

[arcane1]

5. It will be fascinating to see this somehow spun into a "good thing"

Though it's more likely the Clinton camp won't go anywhere near this post.

[SoapBox]

6. Ughhhhhh....

The whole thing is immoral.

Wake the hell up America.

[farleftlib]

8. warehousing US citizens like cattle...

and supporting the DP, all the while describing herself as a "progressive." It's just nauseating.

[CharlotteVale]

9. That is chilling. And very telling.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[appalachiablue]

11. What an atrocious neo-slavery system developled to break down the participation of black

and brown people in society and to provide state sponsored exploitable labor and highly lucrative profits for private corporations. Blatant racism and plunder that are a pox on the US.

[Dustlawyer]

73. Question: How do they offer lower costs than the government did and still rake in the profits?

Crappier and less food, lower wages for staff, inadequate medical care, prison labor, and no attempt at rehabilitation and drug/alcohol treatment. These prisoners just get meaner and learn to be better, more violent criminals when they get out. The company even has an incentive for higher recidivism rates!

These are the backers of the leading DEMOCRATIC candidate?

[liam_laddie]

89. Lower costs? Only in the lobbying BS.

The labor expense line in the financials is probably much lower than the government's.
Profit uber alles, y'know.

[1StrongBlackMan]

91. Is your client list a political statement? I know mine, never was. eom.

[appalachiablue]

100. Overcharging defenseless, incarcerated prisoners for one thing. In some facilities it costs

inmates $36 per minute for long distance phone calls, an exorbitant fee that that has been confronted in one or more states recently. Prisoners also labor to produce goods including furniture I've read. Reports here have even focused on attempts to charge prisoners for the debts of their families, a punishment that will take years to fulfill or never. The rapid growth of the US prison population in the last twenty years to 2.2 million, the largest in the world, has been under a great deal of scrutiny lately for good reason.
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Earlier periods utilized workhouses, indentured servitude, debtors prisons and the corrupt debt peonage/prison system, or slavery by another name during the repressive post Civil War Jim Crow era that largely impacted blacks and Hispanics in the American south and southwest after Reconstruction ended in 1877 up until the 2nd World War. In the 18th century even well off figures like Gen. Henry 'Lighthorse Harry' Lee served time if they became indebted. Lee, a Revolutionary War hero, Continental Congress member and Gov. of Va., later served two terms in debtors prison and died disgraced in Barbados for pursuing risky financial schemes, investments and land speculation. The expansion of corporate capitalism in the Industrial Age and Victorian era (1837-1901) brought an epoch when masses of adults, children, the elderly and vulnerable were impoverished and made to toil in workhouses/almshouses for their crimes, debts and poverty.

The abominable conditions of the working class and the poor were famously depicted by English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens in popular works like 'Oliver Twist' (1839) and 'A Christmas Carol' (1843). When he visited the US on a book tour in the 1840s, Dickens commented on the deplorable existence in urban slums he saw when visiting the Five Points area of New York. In France, famous writer and committed republican Victor Hugo wrote of the appalling life of those impoverished in 'Les Miserables' (1862). Later in the US, author Sinclair Lewis exposed shocking realities of immigrant laborers and animal factory processing in the Chicago meat industry with his noted work 'The Jungle' (1906) that ignited early food standard reforms by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Dickens knew the dark times he wrote of firsthand from his boyhood days laboring in a London boot-blacking factory to help pay off debts accrued by his imprisoned Navy clerk father. Actor Charlie Chaplin also experienced the Victorian workhouse as a child when his London vaudeville hall musician family broke apart and fell into poverty.
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In the 19th century and early 20th century, US factory owners charged textile workers for the chairs they sat in to work, and for supplies, like breaking a needle. Coal miners were deceived about the amount of tonnage used to calculate their pay by placing a hidden lining in the bottom of coal carts so that miners had to dig and load more coal for which they were uncompensated. The methods and tactics employed to abuse and exploit workers with few rights and advocates in unregulated capitalism are endless. Workplace changes and social improvements in America began in the early 20th century after decades of effort by workers and social and labor activists, thank God.

[bl968]

12. You cannot trust Hillary Clinton

Do you really think Hillary is really gonna do anything about overhauling our broken Criminal Justice system, other than make it harsher and to put even more people in jail. LOL. Think about it, Bill Clinton's Crime Bill created it; and she has been there sucking at the teat for all she's worth ever since.

The for profit prison industry wants this woman as president and they wouldn't do that without expecting their money's worth in return...

Three links tell you all you need to know...

Judge Sentenced for Selling Kids/Adults into For-Profit Prison

A Pennsylvania judge has been convicted of selling children into prison for cash. The former judge, 61-year old Mark Ciavarella Jr, was sentenced to 30 years for taking money under the table from a developer and jailing thousands of adults and juveniles, some as young as ten. Ciavarella made more than a million dollars selling people into incarceration.

Read more: http://bluenationreview.com/judge-sentenced-selling-kids-profit-prison/#ixzz3vSj9AKJ7

Then you have this gem of a story...

"Lockup Quotas," "Low-crime Taxes," and the For-Profit Prison Industry

In 2012, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest for-profit prison company in the country, sent a letter to 48 state governors offering to buy their public prisons. CCA offered to buy and operate state prisons in exchange for a 20-year contract, which would include a 90 percent occupancy rate guarantee for the entire term. Essentially, the state would have to guarantee that its prison would be 90 percent filled for the next 20 years (a lockup quota), or pay the company for unused prison beds if the number of inmates dipped below 90 percent capacity at any point during the contract term (a "low-crime tax" that essentially penalizes taxpayers when prison incarceration rates fall).

Read more: www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-cohen/lockup-quotas-lowcrime-ta_b_3956336.html

Lastly,

States Guarantee High Prison Populations for Private Prison Industry’s Profits

"The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws."

Read more: truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/prison-populations-private-profits/18248-prison-populations-private-profits

She has shown that she will do anything, say anything, be anything to get elected. After that all bets are off. That is why I will not vote for this woman no matter what.

[CorporatistNation]

41. It ONLY Gets Worse... And I thought I knew Just About Everything About This Expletive Candidate

How can ANYONE, Man OR Woman vote for this self serving Narcissist who is completely devoid of ANY personal or professional integrity.

Could give a rats ass about the people who serve overseas in any capacity and who will lie whenever and wherever it serves her needs.

To discuss her history is not being mean spirited or negative as it is entirely of her own doing. She is like the catty self centered girl that you remember from 10th grade...

THIS is who these people want to put in the Oval Office? Disgusting!

THIS Primary Election Will Go Down As An Epic Battle between Good and Evil... We all know which is which and Who is who...

[nc4bo]

48. Then we have the oh, so lovely, Debtors' Prison.....

https://www.schr.org/our-work/debtors-prisons

Debtors' Prisons
Contrary to what many people may believe, there are debtors’ prisons throughout the United States where people are imprisoned because they are too poor to pay fines and fees.

SCHR Files on Behalf of Detainees who cannot pay

Ora Lee Hurley spent nearly a year at the Georgia Department of Corrections, Atlanta Diversion Center due to her inability to pay a $705 fine from a 15-year-old drug conviction because she was charged for staying there. A court had ordered Ms. Hurley imprisoned until her fine was paid. While held at the Diversion Center, Ms. Hurley was employed full-time at arestaurant thatsent her paycheck directly to the Department of Corrections. Although Ms. Hurley never missed a day of work and earned over $7,000, the Department took nearly every penny of her earnings. Left with only $23 per month to buy food, toiletries, and pay her fine, Ms. Hurley was being confined in perpetuity. She was released only after SCHR filed a habeas petition on her behalf.

Or this lovely example:

Many counties throughout the South, for example, are committing scarce dollars to building larger jails in anticipation of securing a lucrative contract with the federal government to house detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the United States Marshals Service or even prisoners from other counties or other states. One example would be the importation of incarcerated women from Connecticut to a private prison in Aliceville, AL. As another example, the design of work release programs - something that should be focused on developing skills and reducing recidivism - is often driven primarily by an interest in collecting as much money as possible from the prisoner-workers. The privatization of probation, imprisonment, and other parts of the criminal justice system create incentives for expanding the criminalization of poor people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/10/21/a-debtors-prison-in-mississippi/

During a single week in 2011, Joseph Anderson, 52, suffered three heart attacks and a stroke. The latter left the left side of his body partially paralyzed. Later that year, he suffered a fourth heart attack. Prior to his health problems, Anderson worked as a mechanic at a local Best Western. After that disastrous stretch, he has been unable to work, and struggles to get by on the less than $10,000 per year he gets in various forms of public assistance.

In 2012 a Biloxi, Mississippi, police officer pulled Anderson over for speeding. He was fined $170, or about 20 percent of his monthly income. When he couldn’t pay that amount, a city judge sentenced Anderson to 12 months of misdemeanor probation. He was ordered to pay $50 per month to the city until his fine was paid off. But that wasn’t all. Anderson’s probation would be administered by a private company called Judicial Correction Services, Incorporated (JCS). In addition to what he owed the city, he was also ordered to pay JCS a $10 set-up charge, and a $40 monthly “supervision fee.” That $40 fee was due each month for the duration of his probation, even once he had paid off his original fine. All of which means that because Anderson was too poor to pay his $170 fine, his overall debt ballooned to $580. His fine more than tripled, solely because he was too poor to pay it.

Anderson was told he’d be released if he could pay $220 on the spot. He didn’t have anywhere near that kind of money. So he was booked. On the first day of his incarceration, he was denied access to his heart medication. He spent six additional nights locked up — he spent the 2013 New Year alone in a jail cell —before he was released by a judge. During his week behind bars, Anderson was never told that he had the right to an attorney.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/02/24/debtors-prisons-then-and-now-faq#.oiT8RMwC1

In the first category are credit card debt, unpaid medical bills and car payments, and payday loans and other high-interest, short-term cash advances, which indigent borrowers rely on but struggle to repay. In these cases, the creditor – a predatory lender, a landlord, or a utility provider – or a debt collector (hired by the creditor) may bypass bankruptcy court and take the debtor straight to civil court. If the debtor fails to show up, or if the judge deems that the debtor is “willfully” not paying the debt, the judge may write a warrant for the debtor’s arrest on a charge of “contempt of court.” The debtor is then held in jail until he or she posts bond or pays the debt, in a process known as “pay or stay.

”The second category, termed “criminal justice financial obligations,” actually consists of three sub-categories: fines, i.e. monetary penalties imposed as a condition of a sentence, including, say, a traffic ticket; fees, which may include jail book-in fees, BAIL INVESTIGATION FEES5, public defender application fees, drug testing fees, DNA testing fees, jail per-diems for pretrial detention, court costs, felony surcharges, public defender recoupment fees, and on and on and on; and restitution, made to the victim or victims for personal or property damage. Also in this category are costs of imprisonment (billed to inmates in 41 states), and of parole and probation (44 states).
BAIL INVESTIGATION FEES5

For more on bail, see The Marshall Project's Alysia Santo's reporting on the future of the industry. If an offender or ex-offender fails to pay any of this debt, the court will outsource the debt to a private debt collector, and the process of taking the debtor to court, described above, begins all over again.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/23/3704358/debtors-prisons-lawsuits/

“Caging people when they’re too poor to afford to pay court debt…is ubiquitous, it’s happening in all 50 states,” said Alec Karakatsanis, co-founder of Equal Justice Under the Law, which brought a case against Montgomery. There is no hard and fast data on how many towns engage in these practices, nor how many people are jailed on any given day. “But I go around the country…and see it all over,” he noted.

One motivating factor is that municipal courts have become a cash cow in terms of government revenue. “It’s actually very lucrative for cities to do this,” Karakatsanis said. “These policies allow cities to take advantage of the fact that they also control the police force and jails and to extort money out of people.”

His group just filed a lawsuit last week against the New Orleans criminal district court for running a debtors’ prison in which fees are imposed without hearings about people’s ability to pay, despite the fact that 80 percent of defendants qualify as indigent, and people are indefinitely jailed if they fall behind on payments. The money is then used to fund the judges, the prosecutors, and the public defenders, creating potential conflicts of interest and rendering the court system dependent on higher and more frequent fines and fees assessed against defendants. One plaintiff says he was kept in jail for weeks for unpaid debts even though he could have paid had he been allowed to earn the money at his job. Another was told by a collections officer to pay double every time a payment was late.

“These are supposed to be places you can go to seek justice, and instead they’re cash cows,” Karakatsanis said.

I know where Sanders would stand on this (not sure if he has specifically addressed this on his various platforms or not) but I don't feel confident on where HRC stands - and it's not on the side of the poor and indigent.

[pnwmom]

13. All these lobbying firms have a multitude of clients. No one is responsible for their

lobbyist attorney's other clients.

And she isn't taking money from the private prison industry, as you know.

[Divernan]

14. Really? So they're giving it to her PACs instead? Big Whoop!

Or they can always donate to the Clinton Family Foundation. One hand washes the other.

[Live and Learn]

15. She only recently quit taking money from the private prison industry, as you know. nt

[George II]

18. Well, if it wasn't for Sanders' enabling vote back in the 1990s we might not even have......

......a "private prison industry". But like many of the other votes he's made on questionable legislation, he's now running away from that vote.

[questionseverything]

25. yes that was a wrong vote for sanders

he was supporting the goals of democratic president clinton....he placed too much trust in clinton as many of us did back then

i personally can say the same about the welfare reform bill...it cut the safety net way too aggressively but i foolishly thought when the dems realized what they had done they would fix it

but any faith i had in anything the clintons might say/do has long ago sailed

[George II]

43. That's not what his explanation was this summer. He said he voted for it because.....

.....of the Violence Against Women Act.

Same thing with the Brady Bill, he voted AGAINST it because there were things in it that he didn't like. Seems he wants it both ways - he votes FOR a bill because there is something he likes and AGAINST a bill because there is something he doesn't like.

Funny thing, for someone who "never changes" he sure changes his reasons for the way he votes on legislation.

[MrChuck]

45. desperation

Having reasons for the things we do is usually viewed as a good thing as the alternative is simply doing things without reason.

[George II]

47. Sorry, I don't even know what that means.

[MrChuck]

70. Ah.

It means that, in my opinion, you're desperately trying to find something wrong or inconsistent upon which to hang your hat when it comes to the Sanders voting record.
Bills in the U.S. are terribly convoluted and unfortunately there is no law which states that legislation must be pure in order to come up for a vote.
Any legislator who hopes to see anything done has had to cast a vote for a good bill with a stinky rider or vote against a bill that carries a tempting rider. It's crummy business but it's not incomprehensible.

[George II]

71. Sorry, I'm not "desperately" trying anything. I suggest you stick around a little longer.....

....before you try making assumptions about others. Unless of course.........

[Bluenorthwest]

87. On some days you ding Bernie for 'not being a real Democrat' today you ding him for

voting with the Democrats. In the House, where Bernie sat at the time 188 Democrats voted yes, just 64 voted no. The yes votes included 2/3 of the Black Caucus and all of the leadership of that caucus. In the Senate just two Democrats voted no. The bill was promoted and later signed by Bill Clinton and was promoted and later lauded by Hillary Clinton. Yet is is all Bernie's fault? Seems pretty contrived and forced to look at it that way.
John Kerry, yes, Joe Biden, yes. Boxer? Yes. Ted Kennedy? Yes.

I was paying attention at that time. I gave some energy to opposing the bill along with Rep Maxine Waters, who voted no and was correct to do so. But the support for it was a bipartisan tidal force. Tom Daschel, Yes. Carol Moesley Braun, Yes.

But it was all Bernie's fault. Because George says so. I urge you to enhance your arguments with facts.

[George II]

96. No, you totally misread or didn't understand the point of my post. The thing is that....

....Sanders tries to play both ends - "I didn't vote for something because I don't like some minuscule aspect of it" and then "I voted for it because there was this minuscule aspect of it that I liked". He's got all bases covered, and he's been doing it for more than two decades.

[Live and Learn]

98. +10,000 nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

108. I have argued with you in the past (pope stuff)

...but I wanted to take a minute to say that while I have some areas of disagreement with you, I also have a real appreciation for your consistent liberal views. Oh, and you have a lot of patience to put up with people you know to be liars, people who lie in an attempt to damage the reputations of others.

[litlbilly]

58. George, how much do you get for getting Bernie supporters banned? just wondering

[questionseverything]

97. my post was my opinion only

i stand by it, way too many of us gave the clintons the benefit of the doubt during bill's presidency but hind sight aught to be 20/20 and the consequences of that bad legislation is apparent

[George II]

102. And yet you're supporting a candidate that voted for that legislation vs. a candidate that didn't.

[questionseverything]

105. hc supported the legislation while first lady,she is way more culpable than bernie

bill was quite the ex plainer...he fooled me back then

no more

enough is enough

one good point you do bring up is the huge bills that have terrible crap hidden in them....bills should deal with one subject,get that right and then move to next subject

[George II]

106. Sanders voted for it, Hillary Clinton didn't - and yet you spin that as....

....a positive for Sanders and a negative for Clinton.

[uponit7771]

118. Great someone admits that Sanders has some judgement votes that he takes 100% responsibility

...for

[questionseverything]

120. as i said earlier,many of us were fooled into trusting the clintons

live and learn

[xocet]

26. Do you have a link to that vote by chance? n/t

[tecelote]

34. My thought too.

Whatever Clinton does, Sanders does too.

[George II]

46. The growth of private prisons came about due to the mass incarceration as a result of:

....the "Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, H.R. 3355)"

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

Sanders voted for that. And just a reminder when people start blaming Hillary Clinton, she wasn't elected to the Senate until ~16 years later.

[Bluenorthwest]

88. This link shows the bill's progress and links to all votes, in the House just 64 Democrats

voted No, in the Senate just two voted No. Ted Kennedy, yes vote. Biden, Kerry, Boxer, yes votes.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/103/hr3355

The other poster will not provide a link because that link makes the 'Blame Bernie for this bill' routine looks utterly contrived.

[George II]

103. Yep...just like the totally fake "Blame Hillary for this bill" routine won't work...

.....for the "She voted for the Iraq War". Biden and Kerry voted yes too along with a majority of Democrats.

It works both ways.

[farleftlib]

37. He did

But he also has a 78% rating from CURE, which means he's voted consistently otherwise on rehabilitation vs. incarceration.

That's a very unClintonian record there.

[Live and Learn]

55. Ahh yes, the Bill Clinton bill. I am sure Hillary told Bill not to sign it, though. nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

107. This thread is about the soulless fucks Hillary Clinton keeps in her inner circle

You'll need to start a different thread on Sanders. We're talking about the subhuman, family-killing garbage Hillary Clinton is in bed with.

[bvar22]

30. SHe "just recently" realized the For Profit Prisons and Mandatory Sentencing are a BAD thing???!!!!

...or did she just "say" she isn't taking money from them because a focus group said it wasn't playing well on TV.



Does she have a Moral Compass, or any guiding principles at all?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

109. She doesn't need a moral compass. She has focus groups. nt

[Doctor_J]

32. which apparently came with her fingers crossed

Like most of what she says

[1StrongBlackMan]

90. This is very true; but, again ...

to fit in on DU these days, one must, first, suspend one's real life experience ... In real life, lawyers take on clients, some "good", others "bad", but none of the client list is a political statement ... it is a job.

But interestingly, looking beyond Capitol Consulting's client list, Sullivan is solid, and long-time working Democrat.

http://www.capitolcounsel.com/team/richard-sullivan/

[pnwmom]

99. Thanks. Alas, being a well-connected Democrat is the last thing

that most people here would want to see.

[George II]

16. Do you have any concept of fundraising, the ubiquitous "bundlers", etc.?

[tecelote]

36. Do you think that donations are made against your corporation's self interest?

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HEY! Where's Bernie or Martin in this chart? Oh yeah. Integrity and moral fortitude.

[George II]

62. "Your corporation"?

I see that includes "data through July 21, 2105 but it doesn't state how far back it begins.

Do you know where she ran and was elected to the Senate twice? Do you know how many people there work in the "Securities and Investment Industry", aka brokerage firms and banks? Have you ever been down to lower Manhattan?

[BeanMusical]

81. "data through July 21, 2105"

You should read it again.

[George II]

93. But does that include data from back to her first Senate campaign? Most of those graphs...

...you guys post does include her two NEW YORK campaigns, where most of the American banks and financial institutions are headquartered and have hundreds of thousands of employees - clerks, tellers, data entry people, janitors, food service people, etc.

Sadly the Sanders people dismiss the relevance of hundreds of thousands of lower middle class people (the people they "claim" to want to help) solely because they happen to work for a bank or financial institution.

I had some guy here on DU once insult my sister, who was a bank teller at about $14 an hour, calling her a BANKSTER!!!

Such is the hypocricy of many Sanders supporters - "oh, you mop floors in a bank branch after hours? You're a BANKSTER!"

[MoreGOPoop]

17. K & R

The Bourgeoisie is a well-paid firewall that protects the status quo.

[turbinetree]

19. During the next "debate" being held on a DWS weekend .........................

someone, anyone, should ask Clinton, if she would return all of that moola, I mean someone should stand up in the audience and ask that question to her face, and challenge her ........................




Honk----------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2106

[sulphurdunn]

20. And I always thought the Mob was bad.

[ThePhilosopher04]

21. TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you support Hillary Clinton and you call yourself progressive, you need to have your head examined IMHO!!!!!!

[Ferd Berfel]

22. No Surprise. SHe is and has always been a Corporatist.

I cannot support a creature of wall street.

[passiveporcupine]

23. He got part of this right

“The reality is, we are a very affluent country, we have loose borders, and we have a bad education system,”

It should have said a very affluent country for a small percentage of our citizenry. Between income inequality and lack of affordable education, and poverty for so many, of course there will be crime. The best thing we can do to minimize crime, is to address those problems, not put more money into prisons that just deal out punishment for falling into a crack.

I'm not at all surprised that Hillary is supporting for-profit prisons. It fits her profile.

Edited to add link to this post in Video group, about how for-profit prisons keep people in jail...through fees they cannot afford just for being in jail.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017317414

[Duval]

24. Huge K&R! Thanks, Segami!

[Thinkingabout]

27. Was Sanders fund raising when hd met with the bank, tobacco and banking lobbyists?

[hopemountain]

44. any links to support your

aspersions/assertions?

[Thinkingabout]

49. Here:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Dem_senators_spent_weekend_with_bank_energy_tobacco_lobbyists.html

[hopemountain]

51. i won't bother reading the politico blog

but appreciate your dem senators spent weekend with bank energy tobacco lobbyists press release. your statements made it sound as though bernie himself sought out these private meetings. lol.

[Thinkingabout]

56. I don't know which sought the other, Sanders was at the meeting.

Interesting it was lobbyists from the banking industry.

[hopemountain]

57. yet, you imply he was fundraising.

tsk. tsk.

[gordyfl]

80. Here's the Complete List of Attendees..

Your Complete List...

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM143_100201_dscc_miami.html

Included on the list...

The Edison Electric Institute - supports climate change regulations;

http://www.eei.org/ourissues/TheEnvironment/Climate/Pages/default.aspx

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM) - is a United States advocacy group whose goal is to protect Social Security and Medicare. NCPSSM works to preserve entitlement programs through direct mail campaigns, candidate endorsements, incumbent ratings, grassroots activity, issue advertising, and campaign contributions.

NCPSSM promotes tax increases as a way to address what it describes as modest long-term issues with Social Security's solvency. The organization opposes Social Security privatization and supports prescription drug benefits in Medicare. Through its political action committee, the organization donates money to support Democratic candidates and to oppose Republican candidates.


The Arthritis Foundation - is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to addressing the needs of people living with arthritis in the United States. There are more than 50 million adults and 300,000 children living with arthritis, the nation’s leading cause of disability.[1] The Foundation works to provide information and resources, access to care, advancements in science and community connections.

The Arthritis Foundation - publishes the magazine Arthritis Today. Through local offices nationwide, the Foundation sponsors a variety of year-round events to raise funds and create awareness, from local walks and runs to dinners, galas and other affairs.

[Thinkingabout]

112. The lobbyists meeting I was referring was lobbyists from bank, energy

And tobacco industries. I am going to read more on the ones in your post, there must be more lobbyists meetings I do nkt know about.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

110. dunno. Start a thread. This is about the lowlife scum Hillary Clinton keeps around.

[Thinkingabout]

111. Who is the low life scum Hillary Clinton keeps around?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

113. Check the OP. I feel like you're very close to getting this.

[Thinkingabout]

114. So it is lobbyists, got it, so you are saying lobbyists are low

Life scum, even the low life scum lobbyists Sanders hangs out with.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

115. F for the day. Permanent record. Come back when you know how to be serious.

[Thinkingabout]

116. I am serious, I would not categorize lobbyists as low life scum, maybe

Others do. Ask Sanders about his lobbyists connections.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/02/dem-senators-spent-weekend-with-bank-energy-tobacco-lobbyists-024709

[DisgustipatedinCA]

117. There are lobbyists, and there are lobbyists. Goodbye.

[FreakinDJ]

28. Yea for Hillary

just what America needs

[orpupilofnature57]

29. She's trained her supporters to use half of their senses to make sense of the variances, she'll no

doubt have an explanation .

[Thinkingabout]

50. Oh, really, do you have a link?

[Doctor_J]

31. This will not affect how she governs 11!!!1!!1111!!!!&$@

Just like the money from wall street! And the money from the for profit schools industry!! And the money from the insurance companies!!! How dare you imply that these gangsters will want something for their money!!!! You're afraid of a female president!!!!!

[Dont call me Shirley]

33. Sinister people know no boundaries in creating sinister plots. Just say no, Hillary, just say no!

[cui bono]

35. Wow!

No wonder they don't want to improve education. It would cut into their prison profits.

.

[dorkzilla]

38. Damn, Segami, the quote from March made me throw up in my mouth a little

Absolutely disgusting.

[whereisjustice]

42. This is one of the most disturbing things I've read in a long time. Absolutely unacceptable

that any corporation should be so comfortable spewing this shit without anyone from Dem Party leadership calling it out.

[jwirr]

52. Question - Why would she continue to have anything to

do with the private prison industry when she says that she believes that we need to quit incarcerating so many people in prisons? For profit makes incarceration desirable. You cannot have it both ways.

[hopemountain]

54. absolutely unacceptable

we must elect bernie. we must.

thank you, segami. bookmarked for future campaigning.

[Todays_Illusion]

61. Tax Money for profit prisons are also the new plantation slave system where the food and housing

for the slave labor is provided by the taxpayer.

[Eko]

63. Oh noes!

"Tad Devine: campaign adviser for Bernie Sanders. Worked at Winston & Strawn LLP, the law firm that has represented Microsoft, Verizon, Phillip Morris, Pfizer and, my favourite because of the magical effect the name has, MONSANTO! Yes, indeed, Bernie’s advisor worked at a law firm that has represented MONSANTO!"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/26/1463668/-So-You-re-Deeply-Concerned-About-Clinton-s-Connections

Guilt by association is a logical fallacy.

[gordyfl]

85. Tad Devine - "One of the Nation's Most Respected..."

Tad Devine only worked in one of their offices for two years.

He was recognized as one of "the nation's most respected media consultants" by USA Today.

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

[LettuceSea]

65. ...And people think she will get the AA and Latino vote. Lol.

Yes, I'm sure they will enthusiastically vote for the candidate who locks up their families and neighbors.

Something like the OP will be posted at every bus stop come GE in FL, OH, VA.

[Babel_17]

67. "we have a bad education system" is part of the sales pitch

They have a target rich environment.

"Alas, Babylon!"

[LettuceSea]

69. Politically I can't emphasize enough how stupid she was for accepting $$ Let's see who P4P impacts:

-Displaces Hispanic immigrants

-Destroys Black families and communities

-Undercuts jobs in the blue collar workforce

That's, uh, the votes we ABSOLUTELY need to win.

I thought HRC was supposed to be the most electable, the most politically skilled. So why is she telling the demographics she needs to fuck off?

[Paka]

72. K&R

Morally-repugnant business in every sense possible.

[BeanMusical]

74. "immoral, predatory capitalism."

Yep, what a charming bunch.

[cantbeserious]

82. HRC Is A Pawn Of the Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks That Pay For Her Campaign

eom

[SHRED]

83. Terrible

[SHRED]

84. The corporate candidate

[99Forever]

92. We know the candidates by who pays their way.

Bernie sanders campaign is funded by We the People.

'Nuf said.

[uberblonde]

94. Complete nonsense.

$44K? That's laughable. That's just a plain old CYA contribution. Now go look at Open Secrets to see how much they've given to the Republican candidates.

Some Democrats' willingness to be triggered by such red herrings is disturbing -- not to mention, their seeming inability to stay up on current developments.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/23/3715544/clinton-private-prisons/

[Lancero]

95. She'll take a harsh stance against them, just like she did Wall Street.

She believes that Black Lives Matter, which is why she is taking PIC money and making plans to tell them to 'cut it out'.

[Faux pas]

101. KNR

[George II]

104. You've got to dig back to July for "news"? This has been hashed and rehashed for almost six months

[Logical]

119. Wow! Nt