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Since we're all discussing Saudi Arabia today...
The Podesta Group makes 140,000 a month lobbying for Saudi Arabia. What does the Podesta Group do for that money?
"The Podesta Group is billing Saudi Arabia $140,000 a month for its public relations services. During the last few months of 2015, it sent 27 emails, had two phone calls and one meeting with lawmakers and staffers, journalists, and organizations including Human Rights Watch and the Center for American Progress, disclosure forms show."
http://thehill.com/policy/international/276741-saudis-have-lobbying-muscle-for-9-11-fight
That's Hillary speech levels of cash... Speaking of Hillary...
The owners of the Podesta Group - itself a major campaign bundlers for Clinton - are both major Clinton fundraisers. And of course one of the owners is Hillary's campaign chairman.
That would be Tony Podesta.
Tony Podesta also founded and and was the CEO of.... The Center for American Progress... Who Saudi Arabia paid to meet with?!?
Oh and hey the current CEO of CAP is Neera Tandon.... Who was a bigwig on the 08 Clinton campaign.
Small world eh?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Gives a perspective on the Hillary campaign and on our campaign financing system.
We need to change the system.
Where is my lobbyist in Congress?
Why do Saudi Arabians have more influence in our country than we as individual American citizens do?
And those lobbying fees and the stories now coming out about Saudi Arabian complicity in 9/11 suggest it is time for us to change our campaign financing and lobbying laws. We need to elect representatives and senators and a president who will change them.
Bernie Sanders is the only candidate for president who will stop foreign influence in our government or at least try to stop it.
Feel the Bern!
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)This shit has to end for America to have a future worth talking about.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)Including teenager girls for "witchcraft".
And that's the least of the awfulness.
Which is messed up.