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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Thu Jun 25, 2015, 04:07 AM Jun 2015

605 corporate advisers allowed access to the TPP text,

Below is a list of 605 corporate advisers who have been allowed access to the TPP text, while the public and members of congress have been kept in the dark

The names are listed on 23 different websites, so, when taking a recent intercity bus ride, I downloaded them all into one spreadsheet. Is it really "more than 600" lobbyists? Close. It’s probably a bit fewer than 600, since some people are on two different committees. Most are from corporations such as Wal-Mart and Cargill or from industry groups, but there are a few nonprofits represented, including — irony alert! — Transparency International.

Oh, and the Obama administration told registered lobbyists in 2009 that they couldn’t serve on the committees, so maybe these aren't technically lobbyists—just corporate employees telling the government what they want it to do. See the difference?

- See more at: http://sojo.net/articles/insider-list#sthash.g8dNMJqt.dpuf

http://www.flushthetpp.org/tpp-corporate-insiders/

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605 corporate advisers allowed access to the TPP text, (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 OP

Hope folks actually look at list, it includes Teamsters, Oceana, Bookings, Audubon Soc, state/city Hoyt Jun 2015 #1

"...while the public and members of congress have been kept in the dark" KansDem Jun 2015 #2

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Hope folks actually look at list, it includes Teamsters, Oceana, Bookings, Audubon Soc, state/city

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 05:53 AM

Jun 2015

governments, Humane Society, port authorities, Consumers Union, Audubon Society, universities, state agriculture and development departments, city of Miami, Organic and other trade associations, Underwriters Laboratories, etc., as well as corporations many work for that do business internationally.

I bet some of you could have gotten on the list several years ago if you had been informed and applied.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)

2. "...while the public and members of congress have been kept in the dark"

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 06:43 AM

Jun 2015

Says it all...

...just corporate employees telling the government what they want it to do. See the difference? -- Yeah, they get to tell the government "what to do" while the rest of we, the people, are left out.

Oh, I forgot, corporations are "people," my friend.

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