Since 2004, Kennecott has successfully lobbied members of Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s administration and lawmakers from eight Upper Peninsula districts–initially to pass new sulfide mining laws, and currently to approve an 8,000-page mining permit application
But thank heaven we can look forward to a Clinton Admin with an arm’s length policy to moneyed interests, so that there won’t be the slightest posibility of corporations greasing the palms of government officials. You know, it will be clean and happen before they enter office, like Goldman Sachs and her speeches, or maybe after they leave, like Granholm’s director. But never during, 'cos that would be wrong.
Ken Salazar, former Secretary of the Interior and a U.S. Senator from Colorado, will serve as the chairman of the transition team. Co-chairs are: Granholm, former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, President of the Center for American Progress Neera Tanden and Director of the Institution of Politics at Harvard University Maggie Williams.
Thunderclap posted links to pieces that purportedly refuted what I claimed.
I post the above quote, which I believe corroborates my claim, from the link that he provided.
Four people “liked” Thunderclap’s misleading post regarding the nature of Salazar’s position. Presumably, that meant that they thought it was factual. I “tagged” those people in order to correct misinformation. All those people could, of course, check back in over time and read all the replies, but that is unlikely. Tagging them assures that they gets the facts in this case.
If you think that tagging in order to keep people abreast of a continuing conversation is wrong, or violates some unwritten, and not widely shared, “community standard”, that’s fine: it’s your site. But I believe that would leave your readership ever so slightly less informed, if, in certain cases, somewhat happier.
And at this point, the states to focus on are ones where we can take a Senate seat. Hillary winning won’t be very satisfying nor good the country (and world) if Mitch the Craven is still Senate Majority Leader. Pour Hillary’s efforts and all available cash into those states and the campaign of the Democrat aiming to unseat the lizard-brain Republican Senator there.
Maybe not—but he called her a liar, incompetent, and unqualified, as well as telling his deluded supporters that she was owned by Wall Street and was dishonest.
Bernie helped Trump a lot—whether wittingly or unwittingly.
Insofar as those blue collar whites hate the Republican Party elites already, yes, but they’ll still vote for its congresscritters and everything downticket – unless the Dems give them a reason not to. Hillary is so far running a base election campaign focused on a handful of traditional swing states and on winning the White House. She needs to expand the map and focus on winning the House of Representatives.
I’m holding out for Montana. There is a Democratic governor plus one Dem in the senate. The former governor Schwitzer was quite the populist and still has some clout.
I don’t know anybody who thinks she is incompetent or unqualified. As to the liar, owned by Wall Street and honesty charges those perceptions have been out there for a long time. You might as well blame the New York Times as Bernie. The media has been working hard to trash Hillary for 25 years.
By the way the “owned by Wall Street” charge is the general perception of the Washington establishment held by many Americans. In short anybody living inside the beltway is thought to be owned by the oligarchs. That might be the reason both Trump and Bernie did so well this cycle. If you want to blame somebody for that perception blame the Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United.
I think the general perception of Americans is that the government is more responsive to moneyed interests than to the average citizen. I would like to hear an argument telling that they are wrong.
Oh, bless your heart! You must have thought I wrote that article! No, it was Greenpeace. Why don’t you tell them they have their “head up (their) ass”, as you so colorfully put it?
Thunderclap, one of the features of adulthood is taking responsibility for one’s responsibility where and when one is responsible. Clinton had her part in the development of her reputation. And I’m sure that you’ll agree that the smears against her - and there were lots of those - came almost entirely from Republicans. Left-wing critics had enough facts to work with.
This is great news and that’s it. It doesn’t need sprinklings of doubt, it just is what it is.
The peanut gallery likes to talk about Hillary’s unlikeability every time more good news piles up but the good news mountain is huge and growing compared to the same-old, same-old rehashed negative mole hill.
Yes, just like every other candidate in history, Hillary isn’t perfect but unlike every other candidate for POTUS ever, she is probably the most qualified and prepared and has a track record of being extremely effective and popular and only lost to Mr. Popular, coolest Prez ever himself, Barack Obama, whom now backs her 100% confirming the trust he placed in her to be his SOS.
If being unlikeable equates to winning the EV in the landslide numbers that are becoming hard to deny, then I imagine running on unlikeability will be the next big thing.
Turning the tide in Kansas and SC and on and on at all is a good thing. The nature of turning the tide is starting to go the other direction and that is happening, thus the turning. If the claim is that she isn’t performing the miracles fast enough or hugely enough then the problem is with the observer not the observed.
Maybe, just maybe, if the crowd that is hellbent on poo pooing all good things Hillary just knocked off the negativity it would help and they wouldn’t be contributing to the problem that they say is the problem. IOW, they are the makers of their own desired reality that doesn’t really pan out in non-hater world.
