Ugh. How Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff helped a Democratic bundler

[cali]

Can you say quid fucking pro?

Cheryl Mills opened a door for Mack McLarty to promote his car business in China

Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills did a favor for a former Bill Clinton staffer-turned-Hillary campaign donor, giving the auto dealer, who was heavily invested in China, access to a bilateral U.S.-China event at the State Department where he could promote his private business interests.

In spring 2011, Mills invited Thomas “Mack” McLarty, Bill Clinton’s former White House chief of staff, tattend the official dinner after McLarty asked for access because of “our substantial family investment in the automotive sector (including electric vehicle development in China).”

McLarty later detailed in a thank you email to Mills that the dinner allowed him to connect with both Hillary Clinton and Chinese leaders who deal with the private sector — which, he added, “ is of course important to … our automotive activities in China.” Mills forwarded the email to Clinton.

The exchange, revealed in the latest batch of Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve, offers another example of Clinton aides going to great lengths to please Democratic Party donors and connected political figures while she ran the State Department. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for president, has been blasted by Republican opponents who say she used the job as the nation's top diplomat to nurture political connections.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-cheryl-mills-mack-mclarty-217305#ixzz3wGnbS3d9

[djean111]

1. I believe a Clinton administration would be summed up as "quid fucking pro".

That's why I am voting for Bernie.

[CorporatistNation]

5. Very Insightful Fucking Post... I LOVE IT! K and R!!!!!

More than adequate display of consequences should The TRUTH be ignored. Thank you.

[Prism]

2. Who enjoys 4-8 years of Republican investigations!

Because that's what a Clinton presidency will land us.

I don't even post the foundation problems here. Peoples' heads explode if you mention it. But, somehow, it will magically not be an issue.

Republicans are salivating for Hillary. They cannot wait. So let's just walk into that. What could go wrong.

[pnwmom]

3. Oh, right. Because it's fine for them to do it but not any Democrats. n/t

[JRLeft]

25. That will happen to every democratic president.

[pnwmom]

4. I don't see the issue here. The article points out that all Administrations have done this.

What is wrong with helping our corporations do business in other countries?

[cali]

8. Of course you don't. You've made it quite clear that as long as Hillary's camp

is doing it, it's fine

[Mbrow]

10. +1

[trillion]

15. I'm a Bernie supporter and I see this person's point.

it shouldn't happen but it's a bit rich for the republicans or anyone else to go after her when everyone else has done far worse. Cheney and Haliburton come to mind. The last 4 administrations and Monsanto, etc. That's said Hillary is the Billionaire choice. Anyone trusting her is pretty uninformed of her past. This is no news since it's her, nor would it be of likely any president. If you want to pick on her go for the TPP which we should also go after Obama on. At least Bernie has spoken against it.

[cali]

16. This isn't about the republicans. Just because

they do it, doesn't in any conceivable way justify it. Oh, and I've posted about the TPP numerous times and Hillary's support of it.

[DhhD]

20. And the fact that HC and her Team worked against the Mexican Government to privatize the

Mexican National Oil Industry, will not be problem for Supporters of Hillary Clinton but is something that a Democratic or American Administration should never do; deliver Mexican national resources to American Oil Corporations against the will of the Mexican people who went to a Revolution to nationalize industries, in the first place. This is an off-shoot of Hillary's Regime Change work, which left extremist in control and many people dead. What did HC learn from her vote to privatize Iraqi oil in a Bush War scenario? Who was she working for and against?

I am not adding the sources as I have paste them, as issues, too many times on this board already. Privatization and regime change should be a choice that is not first.

[pnwmom]

24. I haven't read about that. Do you have a link?

If this is something she did as Secretary of State then this is a criticism of the Obama administration.

[leftofcool]

6. Yawn

[Armstead]

26. Yes Crony Capitalism is sooooo boring

[MrMickeysMom]

7. Maybe they should just hand out back-scratchers...

You scratch mine, I'll scratch yours.... There is no proletariat version...

[Paka]

9. Follow the money.

She used it to further her political endeavors and line her pockets. "Quid fucking pro," indeed.

[Recursion]

11. Err... do we not like selling cars to China now?

[cali]

12. Deliberately missing the point.

[Recursion]

14. So, can you make the point explicit?

Are politicians not supposed to help American businesses?

Keep in mind that you don't have to convince me that Clinton is the wrong choice for the D nomination. I'm asking what's bad about this story.

[cali]

17. Yes. It's about giving a major donor an advantage over others

[DhhD]

21. Yes cali it is. I agree with you. It is about delivering business to donors even through

regime change and war if necessary. See my rely # 20 up thread. Hillary Clinton should not be anybody's first choice unless you are a corporation or war profiteer.

Just because third way and Republicans can be united at times, means to me, that I should vote for Sanders in the first case, and Clinton in the last.

[pnwmom]

29. It is precisely the point. nt

[cali]

30. That is nonsensical. Do elaborate

[pnwmom]

31. Why? You didn't, when you told Recursion he was missing the point. n/t

[peacebird]

18. Did she offer the same access to other car manufacturers, those who did not give large donations?

Or was this payback for the money donated? Quid pro quo?

IF they invited othe car manufacturers to the event, those who had NOT donated large sums of money, then it is not pay to play. If she only invited those who made big donations then it IS pay to play.

That is not a level playing field, that is corruption.

[Betty Karlson]

13. Pay to Play, is that what she calls it? eom

[restorefreedom]

19. this is one of the screaming reasons why she would be such a bad nom

it doesn't matter whether scummy repubs do it, they are hypocrisy impaired. they will push this all through the ge...anoher reason she is unelectable and unfit for office.

[ViseGrip]

22. Exactly, the Clinton's have been building their world, one quid pro after another, and another.eom

[cali]

28. They sure have. And it's corruption.

[restorefreedom]

32. can you imagine, if this was done while sos,

what would happen in a presidency?


(shudder)

[Segami]

23. kick!...

[AzDar]

33. Ick.

[cali]

34. We scream bloody murder when repukes pull this shit. Bill and Hillary: Making corruption cool.

[Duval]

35. K&R!