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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @03:13AM
Hillary is to the left of Obama on economic policy, but well to his right - really center-right - on foreign policy.
Also, Obama is intellectually sharper and more principled. But Obama is sharper than most politicians at that level, possibly excluding Romney, and more principled than most including Romney.
Notice, I didn't say "more principled than all". Yes, Bernie is probably more principled than Obama is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @10:21AM
He wouldn't have conceded to Clinton and said that supporting Clinton against Trump was more important than voting for who is morally/ethically right in your view. Instead he just supported the very establishment he's been criticizing for however many years.
There is almost noone you can respect in the system anymore, and even those you can may just turn on their principles at a critical future juncture, just like Sanders (or Obama...) did.