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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) by Justin Case on Friday August 19 2016, @04:01AM
Not wanting to cause actual pain to, you know, myself, I decided to wail away on a nearby Hillary supporter.
Curiously, it only took one whack before they were rendered senseless. Can you explain?
(In fairness, no whacks were needed for the Trump supporter.)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 19 2016, @04:28AM
Yes: they're either half-dead with despair already, or they're not actually any smarter than the average Republican.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 19 2016, @02:54PM
So, the family and i are wrapping up an 8,000 mile, 4-wk roadtrip around America (i wanted the kids to see it in one piece, before it falls apart). We saw too many Trump signs to count, and a lesser number of Bernie signs. Not even in the bluest of the blue areas (Seattle, San Francisco, etc) did we see one Hillary sign. Well, in northern New Mexico we did see one, "Hillary for Prison 2016," but i don't think that counts.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 19 2016, @03:15PM
Most Clinton supporters are smart enough to not engage with the internet rage machine.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday August 19 2016, @06:20PM
Or more likely, most Clinton supporters don't really care, they just don't want to have Trump win.
She's a woman, she's not Trump and that's really the main reasons why people are voting for her. She's promising more of the same corruption and incompetence that we've had.