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posted by martyb on Friday August 19 2016, @01:46AM   Printer-friendly
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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.


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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 19 2016, @03:17AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday August 19 2016, @03:17AM (#389871) Journal

    I, for one, am not shocked at all. What I do find a little odd is how brazen HRC is being about it. I'd expected her campaign to be run in such a manner that I'd feel like a complete RWNJ by not voting for her or at least feel like I was voting against a candidate that's expressed views on LGBT stuff and cannabis that are definitely in my best interests. (Whether the LGBT stuff is constitutional or not….) For her credit, I'm not doubting she'll stay true on those two things, at a minimum maintaining Obama's policies.

    Are the sheep/cows really that oblivious to the danger posed by TPP/TTIP/TISA, especially when considering BRICS? Those treaties are like finally seeing the Joo! Joo! One World (((Joo!))())(function($) { return $((('.Joo'))); })(jQuery) Government the right wing echo chamber kept being paranoid about while I was growing up finally materializing in a very tangible way. LGBTQIFAOMGWTFBBQ, straight, black, white, brown, Apache attack copters, lizard people who are human sympathizers in the Fifth Column [wikia.com] (John May lives!), purple people eaters with green spots, snowflakes, nobody is safe with TPP/TTIP/TISA marching forward.

    The Wall Street connections are already appalling enough even if I had some reason to believe that in spite of her VP choice and this now that HRC honestly intends to hold to her word about no longer supporting TPP. (Note that she hasn't said anything about TTIP or TISA as far as I've heard at least.)

    former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm

    Oh goddess, it's worse than I thought. For all the harm Snyder's done, that bitch was worse. I almost half-believe his alibi about Flint. Almost.

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