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Democracy Now! reports via AlterNet
Ken Salazar is a former U.S. Senator from Colorado who now works at WilmerHale, one of the most influential lobbying firms in Washington. Some groups have criticized Salazar's selection due to his vocal support of fracking, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Keystone XL pipeline.
In addition to Ken Salazar, other leaders of the transition team include former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard's Institute of Politics.
[...] WilmerHale [represents] corporate clients across the board--Cigna, for instance. Cigna is a healthcare giant that is fighting for a merger with Anthem. WilmerHale represents them, Delta Airlines, Verizon, investment firms, a mining company. So, WilmerHale is a major law and lobbying firm.
Ken Salazar is not a registered lobbyist at WilmerHale; he is a partner there. Interestingly enough, Hillary Clinton had published a year ago an op-ed deriding the revolving door where lawmakers leave office and become lobbyists or help special interests. And she had specifically said that she was concerned about lawmakers who go into that line of work, public policy work, for corporate clients, but do not register as a lobbyist, which seems to fit the description of Ken Salazar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @02:48AM
I'll be more shocked if she wins the election via moron voters.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Friday August 19 2016, @06:02PM
It's not the moron vote she's counting on, it's the "anybody but Trump" vote. She never seems to actually talk about her good points, or at least her supporters don't. E.g., I haven't been able to track down any place where she pledged to reject the TPP. What she did was say that she would get a bill against it introduced...not even brought to a vote, just introduced. Maybe she will. It would count as fulfilling her pledge even if it died for lack of a second. Then lots of her supporters said she was against the TPP, and she didn't deny it.
Evaluators say she is more honest than most politicians, and I believe them. And I think the above procedure is why is rates that way. She almost never pledges to do something that will have any effect. And many of her supporters just claim she's going to be a woman, which I find easy to believe...but nothing inherently in her favor. (OTOH, I'm planning to vote for Jill Stein, so it's not that I have anything against women as candidates.)
P.S.: Hillary *does* have some good points that she could talk about. She doesn't because it might distract people from her real issue which is that Trump would be a disaster. And that's hard to argue with.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @07:00PM
Lies are not all the same. Mistakes are not all the same. Let's use the term "falsehood" to include both.
If you count falsehoods per hour, obviously Trump is spewing at the higher rate. He's a bullshitter who won't back down.
Hillary is more calculating. Her falsehoods are less frequent and much less random. She very deliberately tells us things to cover up her crimes.
It's not all the same. Simple counting is not correct. It's like person X has 4 paper cuts, person Y has 3 bullet holes, and you determine that person X is thus more injured because 4 is greater than 3. No, it doesn't work that way.