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Related: About this forumBernie Plans to Fight Global Warming: Hillary's Biggest Bundlers Are Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Hillary Clinton's Biggest Campaign Bundlers Are Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Clinton's top campaign financiers are linked to Big Oil, natural gas .
Paul Blumenthal
Money in Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
Kate Sheppard
Senior reporter/Environment and energy editor, The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Nearly all of the lobbyists bundling contributions for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clintons campaign have at one time or another worked for the fossil fuel industry.
A list of 40 registered lobbyists that the Clinton camp disclosed to the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday revealed a number of Democratic Party lobbyists who have worked against regulations to curb climate change, advocated for offshore drilling, or sought government approval for natural gas exports.
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Scott Parven and Brian Pomper, lobbyists at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, have been registered to lobby for the Southern California-based oil giant Chevron since 2006, with contracts totaling more than $3 million. The two bundled Clinton contributions of $24,700 and $29,700, respectively. They have helped Chevron over the years resist efforts to eliminate oil and gas tax breaks and to impose regulations to reduce carbon emissions.
The two Clinton bundlers also were part of a much-criticized campaign by Chevron to manipulate Congress into inserting language into the Andean Trade Preferences Act that would require Ecuador to dismiss a longstanding lawsuit against the company for polluting the Amazon jungle.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers-fossil-fuel_us_55a8335ee4b04740a3df86c5
A list of 40 registered lobbyists that the Clinton camp disclosed to the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday revealed a number of Democratic Party lobbyists who have worked against regulations to curb climate change, advocated for offshore drilling, or sought government approval for natural gas exports.
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Scott Parven and Brian Pomper, lobbyists at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, have been registered to lobby for the Southern California-based oil giant Chevron since 2006, with contracts totaling more than $3 million. The two bundled Clinton contributions of $24,700 and $29,700, respectively. They have helped Chevron over the years resist efforts to eliminate oil and gas tax breaks and to impose regulations to reduce carbon emissions.
The two Clinton bundlers also were part of a much-criticized campaign by Chevron to manipulate Congress into inserting language into the Andean Trade Preferences Act that would require Ecuador to dismiss a longstanding lawsuit against the company for polluting the Amazon jungle.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers-fossil-fuel_us_55a8335ee4b04740a3df86c5
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Bernie Plans to Fight Global Warming: Hillary's Biggest Bundlers Are Fossil Fuel Lobbyists (Original Post)
amborin
Feb 2016
OP
I misread the title as "Hillary's biggest blunders are fossil fuel lobbyists"
begin_within
Feb 2016
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Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)1. What? That can't be right, they're supposed to be banksters. nt
nt
dchill
(38,516 posts)2. OK, that's IT! I can no longer support such a cockeyed dreamer!
JK
begin_within
(21,551 posts)3. I misread the title as "Hillary's biggest blunders are fossil fuel lobbyists"
Which I guess is appropriate wording too.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)4. How can anyone trust her?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)7. relish at the thought of victory (over enemies from either party), training to see any negative
reporting as ultimately a Republican lie, a long history of blaming the left for all losses and minimizing the fact that it represents 70-90% of the country ("so why doesn't it have 70-90% of the SEATS, wiseguy?!" is a perfectly reasonable sentence in their universe)
Uncle Joe
(58,389 posts)5. But I thought Bernie was single issue and stuff.
Thanks for the thread, amborin.
flamingdem
(39,314 posts)6. This is a biggie, Bernie has it right nt