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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) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 19 2016, @04:19AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday August 19 2016, @04:19AM (#389918) Journal

    The alternatives are Johnson/Weld (16 years combined gubernatorial experience—the ticket with the most^wonly executive experience on the ballot in all 50 states unless one counts HRC's time as Secretary of State and First Lady, which may be a valid counter) or Stein/Baraka. I really don't have anything against Dr. Stein other than being L team where she's G team, and I was surprised to learn how many positions we share. Johnson/Weld is simply the logical choice.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @11:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @11:33AM (#390028)

    Stein supports homeopathy, thinks wi-fi waves hurt people, and claims nuclear power plants are bombs. She is pandering to crazies, not a serious candidate.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday August 19 2016, @05:17PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 19 2016, @05:17PM (#390163)

      I didn't believe you so i looked it up. Now i know you are just lying: https://www.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/4axxxz/is_it_true_the_green_partyjill_stein_supports/ [reddit.com]

      It looked like there was a lot of BS smear campaign calling her anti-science. Then punctuated with the declaration that a vote for Jill Stein is throwing away your vote. It looks like homeopathy is to be removed from the green's platform. I'd like ask if you think medical marijuana is homeopathic or fda approved? I have the feeling the "herbal" language is to just give people the freedom to do whatever they want. Not suggesting that medical science is inferior to tree-bark and dried up frogs (or whatever, i have no idea how that stuff works).

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