Bernie Ignores the Plight of the Poor

[kalm]

Unlike Hillary, United Health, Honda, MGM Resorts and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed!!!

Seriously, the dishonesty and corruption is SO...FUCKING...BRAZEN sometimes...

A FEW DAYS BEFORE the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

But emails released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.

Anne Torres, the mayor’s director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The column’s revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/06/hil ... raft-oped/

[hitchinaride]

What blacks see in Hillary Clinton, I'll never know?

[LeadBolt]

Unlike Hillary, United Health, Honda, MGM Resorts and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed!!!

Seriously, the dishonesty and corruption is SO...****...BRAZEN sometimes...

A FEW DAYS BEFORE the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

But emails released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.

Anne Torres, the mayor’s director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The column’s revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/06/hil ... raft-oped/

WE may not agree on a whole lot of things, but you hit the nail on the head here.

[93henfan]

What blacks see in Hillary Clinton, I'll never know?

My grandfather used to bribe black voters with pints of whiskey and a ride in the back of a truck to the polling place when I was a kid. So in him they saw a pint of whiskey.

In Hillary, they see a lifetime of food stamps, welfare, preferential schooling and hiring, etc.

Her plan is way more effective. And legal.

[SDHornet]

What blacks see in Hillary Clinton, I'll never know?

My grandfather used to bribe black voters with pints of whiskey and a ride in the back of a truck to the polling place when I was a kid. So in him they saw a pint of whiskey.

In Hillary, they see a lifetime of food stamps, welfare, preferential schooling and hiring, etc.

Her plan is way more effective. And legal.

Free stuff makes them "heel".

[JohnStOnge]

What blacks see in Hillary Clinton, I'll never know?

I'd expand that to read "Democrats" instead of Hillary Clinton but let's just hope that whatever it is they keep seeing it long enough to keep Trump from winning this particular election.

[EWURanger]

This election is really going to take the "lesser of two evils" notion to the extreme. It's shocking that these two are who the majority of voters in the two major political parties want representing them. WTF?

I don't usually vote Republican, but honestly, if there were a decent/honest moderate Republican running in the general I'd consider him or her because of my disdain for the Clintons. This isn't much of a choice. Think I'll just vote 3rd Party instead.

[Ibanez]

DBJ, what do you say about this?

[hitchinaride]

This election is really going to take the "lesser of two evils" notion to the extreme. It's shocking that these two are who the majority of voters in the two major political parties want representing them. WTF?

I don't usually vote Republican, but honestly, if there were a decent/honest moderate Republican running in the general I'd consider him or her because of my disdain for the Clintons. This isn't much of a choice. Think I'll just vote 3rd Party instead.

I voted third party in both 2000 and 2004 and felt just as good. Nothing wrong with voting your convictions. The big 2 would have you believe it's a wasted vote. It's not.

[ASUG8]

DBJ, what do you say about this?

DBJ is still trying to figure out how to spin the Koch brothers' newfound support for Hillary after railing against them as evil capitalists for all of these years.