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For the Private Prison Industry ...
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/debbie-wasserman-schultz-tells-radio-host-her-endorsement-of-cca-prison-still-stands-6465453
"There are a lot worse impacts that could be built there right now without any approvals at all," she said, echoing a point made to (T)he Pulp earlier by the town's lawyer, Keith Poliakoff. Wasserman Schultz also referenced that April letter that she wrote, "a cursory letter of support," as she called it. And speaking of Poliakoff, there's strong evidence to suggest that his firm had a heavy hand in drafting an early version of that letter. See Wasserman Schultz's letter from April 8:"
Haven't we had enough of this person ruining the Democratic Party?
marmar
(77,088 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Brought the Democratic Party out of being bankrupt, put them on a good financial path and built a new Headquarters.
DWS could not wipe Terry's feet. We have done nothing but lose elections since she has been there.
She is as bad as Michael Steele was for Republicans. He bankrupted them with his extravagance.DWS is in the same pattern.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)If we were going to sell our souls to the Devil, we could have at least asked for someone competent. Granted, Terry is a bane as he also likes to kneecap liberals, but at least he would not let have the GOP steal so much airtime that come November, we wind up being the Hare to a GOP tortoise, with America voting based on who they have seen more on TV.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)McAuliffe is as shady as they come, he is what's *wrong* with the Democratic Party.
But don't worry, Hillary is certain to bring the Third Way sleazy backroom dealers back to DC with her if elected.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/terry-mcauliffe-governor-virginia
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/terry-mcauliffe-investment-virginia-governors-race-2013-98152.html#ixzz2hPKHr72d
madokie
(51,076 posts)apparently not.
We still have a small group of good solid Democratic Party members.
roody
(10,849 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)DINO comes to mind
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)He's a bigger problem in Florida than she is.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)but HRC would find spots for both of them in her cabinet. Or maybe Debbie could be Chief of Staff? GAG!
And lest we forget, Carlos Danger is in desperate need of a job.
And what about Chelsea's father-in-law? Former Congressman Ed Mezvinsky has government experience and stills owes $9.4 million to all the good folks he embezzled money from!
Despite being released in April 2008 after serving five years in prison, Mezvinsky remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/mezvinsky.asp
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)The Clinton's can teach the Mezvinsky's how to stay out of jail
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)...after all, he'll be out of a job in a few months...
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Just like her potential boss...
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)is so easy to coach.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)So that she can make sure we fight bleed and die in ever bloody war that Bibi Netanyahu wants us to be.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)DWS as SOS? With the election of HRC we are promised even more war(s). I'm not giving up my son. Will you give up yours?
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Praise Hillary!
Crush the unbelievers of capitalism!
tecelote
(5,122 posts)She believes we can not afford Bernie's policies for America but we can afford regime change in the ME.
Her priorities could not be more off base for me.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Interior, or Sec State positions once she gives her all to tilt the party and destroy our process? Our loss is her gain.
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Big business has infected politics. The billions wasted buying elections could fund a lot of social improvement projects.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)The new ones like to call themselves "Third Way" Democrats, because they like to give back what was so hardly won, in the name of compromise.
CrispyQ
(36,499 posts)Or, the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Here's a great article about them from July. It's a little long, but worth the read.
https://www.minnpost.com/dc-dispatches/2015/07/how-keith-ellison-made-congressional-progressive-caucus-political-force-matter
And here's a list of it's members: http://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/
If we could get big money out of politics, the left would have a voice again.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)There was a time when we thought that prisons should be a burden to society, not a profit center.
We've lost our moral compass in so many ways.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)marmar
(77,088 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Blus4u
(608 posts)Best 9 minute jam ever!!!!
fredamae
(4,458 posts)out to be her new title as she is allowed to Continue as DNC chair.
(where is the sarcasm button when ya need it?)
Edit: I clicked on the link and: "This Page Cannot Be Found"
This article lists lobbyists and the pols they love
Schumer, Rubio, Schultz, Murray etc.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/14/meet-the-private-prison-lobby/
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)But, of course, DWS is pro for-profit prisons, cuz, well, New Way.
George II
(67,782 posts)....and a "THAT PAGE COULD NOT BE FOUND." link? (strike two)
THAT PAGE COULD NOT BE FOUND.
Whoops, we can't seem to find what you're looking for. Based upon what we do know, here are some search results that you might find useful.
Aside from that, that project isn't even a prison OR a "private prison" (strike three)
Good thing this isn't baseball.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)The link works fine for me, as does the one provided by another user.
And the proposal she's supporting came from the Corrections Corporatin of America, a private prison company.
Sorry, George, that makes my post a three-run shot to the upper deck.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)On Fri Dec 25, 2015, 10:51 AM an alert was sent on the following post:
Bwahaaaaa. Only a neo-con Hillary fan would suggest that 5-year old information doesn't count.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7474367
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
Personal attack - calling a Democratic Party Presidential nominee and/or a supporter a "neo-con" is totally inappropriate.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Dec 25, 2015, 10:57 AM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Stop alert stalking Bernie supporters.
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Explanation: Don't see the outrage, aka Alert?
liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)At least when it comes to the Clinton's. I'm amazed so many are unaware of their history. I realize they were talking about Bill Clinton's private parts for the whole of the 1990's, but even I started paying attention to some of the stuff being done, yet never reported on at the end of his time in office.
The Democratic Party has lost its soul without supporting labor, when it began exporting jobs, and supporting trade agreements that did so. It's not going to exist well on liberal social issues, but pretty much agreeing with Republicans on wars without end, on corporate entanglements, with exporting jobs through trade agreements, and keeping the wages of the poorest down as low as possible.
demigoddess
(6,644 posts)name, or anything else.
So grammar trumps content? I guess you are right, *people who don't know how to pluralize a word...* are to dumb to be listened to. Of course it is possible you just didn't like the content of the post.
sammythecat
(3,568 posts)that the pronoun "I" and the first letter of every sentence are always capitalized? Do you listen to them?
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Lancero
(3,011 posts)Putting a http link in quotes doesn't really work to well. It ends up chopping stuff out of the link.
Still though, see for yourself?
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)You're logic is so bad. You should be in good company with the republicans though. Have you checked them out?
Duval
(4,280 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)It makes me wonder.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)I am so gxd damned sick of Corporatists calling themselves Democrat.
Bill Clinton (NAFTA, GATT, WTO, Glass-Stegal, TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT, ending welfare as we know it), Obama (TPP, the Deportation fiasco coming up)
NOTE: just this week YOU no longer get to know where your meat is coming from because of the WTO. What's next?
The democratic party is fast becoming the republican party of your grandfather.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Blus4u
(608 posts)was FDR, and we could use him now!
Peace
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)And Yes we could use FDR now. That's way BERNIE!
Duval
(4,280 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Response to NuclearDem (Reply #76)
Name removed Message auto-removed
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Private prisons are slavery.
Nyan
(1,192 posts)-i.e. the private industries- that Chris Hedges calls out in the vid.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Remove Debbie Wasserman Schultz As DNC Chair
Mr. President,
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc-chair-0
- 100,000 needed by Jan 17 2016 !!
Tell your friends
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)just a bit hung over this morning.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)It's not the first one I've signed, either.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)they were out there
brewens
(13,615 posts)are crooks, you'd think at least democrats all over would. They were understaffing to maximize profit and all kinds of crap. Our penitentiary was said to have become a galdiator school run by the inmates. It was nothing more than looting.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)It must be the ever-changing face of the DNC.
Fuck you, Evita!
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)She's doing the best she can to insure a Republican Congress!
libodem
(19,288 posts)Sucks.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)IT was said a long time again: "Democrats hate their base, Republicans are terrified of theirs."
tjl148
(185 posts)they don't care or think about us enough to hate us. We are non entities whose only task is to serve them.
mentalslavery
(463 posts)what a third way sell out
Duval
(4,280 posts)What a....it's Christmas and I'm not going to use the words I'm thinking!!
Vinca
(50,301 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)https://theintercept.com/2015/12/22/geo-group-explains-crime/
cprise
(8,445 posts)and completely gross.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)This started like a cancer in the Republican party and has also spread to many in the Democratic party.
It's time to stop this sickness.
No more.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)but it's a disgusting view to hold whenever it's held. The Private Prison industry is an exploitative nightmare.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)How anyone can support her as chairwoman is beyond me.
Absolutely toxic
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)and rotten to the core. The leaderships of the Democratic Party is just rotten to the core.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)hey! everybody wins.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Sienna86
(2,149 posts)But she supports them. Why?