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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 Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 20 2016, @03:44AM
I *am* thinking long term. You saw what kind of damage Chimpy McDumbfuck allowed his cabal to do to the country from 2000 to 2008; we can't survive another round of that. By the next election I hope I'm going to be out of this lunatic asylum of a country, anyway; I've had enough.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @11:47AM
I *am* thinking long term.
No, you're thinking about short-term negative consequences, not getting rid of the two party system that caused these problems in the first place and will cause even worse problems in the future. You don't do that by voting mindlessly for evil scumbags because the other guys are even worse. That's what a majority of voters have been doing for a long, long time, and look at where it has got us.
You saw what kind of damage Chimpy McDumbfuck allowed his cabal to do to the country from 2000 to 2008; we can't survive another round of that.
I did, but I seriously doubt America couldn't survive another round of that, even if something similar did happen.
See, this is going to happen every election. People will always say they can't vote third party or else the really, really evil person will win.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 21 2016, @02:18AM
I understand your point, I really do, and want SO BADLY to vote Sanders or Stein. This isn't the time, though. What I think needs to happen now is for Clinton to "win" and then have her entire term made into a living Hell as an entire country full of people, goaded on by the aforementioned two candidates working together, CONSTANTLY barrage her and the Senate. She either listens to the will of the people or quits.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @01:04PM
This isn't the time, though.
Since you made that comment about Bush, it will never be time. There's always a chance of [Insert Candidate From Really Evil Party Here] screwing everything up.
What I think needs to happen now is for Clinton to "win" and then have her entire term made into a living Hell as an entire country full of people, goaded on by the aforementioned two candidates working together, CONSTANTLY barrage her and the Senate.
Here's what will really happen: She'll win and it will be business as usual, with all the same corruption and authoritarianism.
I'll be voting third party and no one is going to stop me. I'll hold responsible everyone who didn't follow suit.