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Jackie KucinichAlbert and Claire Dwoskin are liberal Democratic heavyweights and important Hillary donors, but now their vaccination skepticism is bringing them unwanted notice.
Albert Dwoskin and his wife, Claire, have been heavy hitters in Democratic politics for decades, boasting fundraisers with access to top Democratic leaderseven the Clintons.
Bill Clinton has spoken at their mansion in McLean, Virginia twice.
Albert, a real estate developer, donated more than $10,000 to Ready for HillaryClintons campaign in waitingin 2013. Thats on top of the thousands of dollars both Clintons have received from the pair since the 1990s.
But its Albert and Claire Dwoskins other hobby that is under scrutiny now. The Dwoskins fund a multimillion-dollar family foundation that has publicly tied the use of vaccines to a rise in autism, and is dedicated to addressing gaps in the knowledge about the biological and genetic risk factors for vaccine induced brain and immune dysfunction.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/04/anti-vaxxers-funding-ready-for-hillary.html
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(70 posts)NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Democrats have long served as the traditional enemy of Big Pharma, but in this presidential campaign, the left is taking the lion's share of drugmaker money.
Democratic senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the top recipients of donations from the pharmaceutical industry, according to The Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit, non-partisan research group in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, donations to Sen. John McCain, who was recently endorsed by President Bush as the official Republican candidate, pale in comparison.
Obama maintains a slight edge over his Democratic rival, with $181,000 in Big Pharma donations through Jan. 31, compared with Clinton's $174,000, according to the center. McCain is far behind with $44,000. <snip>
Looks like HRC knows the game well.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)And President Obama. And Al Franken. And... well, the list goes on.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000021810&type=P&sort=A&cycle=2012