2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary's at it again. Maybe she should ask Goldman to divest their investments in guns?
She's at it again in New York, portraying Bernie Sanders as the gun industry's best friend. "He has supported the NRA and gun industry on every piece of gun legislation....I will stand up to the gun lobby..."
Well, Hillary, here's how you might start.
Maybe if she wants to avoid being a hypocrite, she might ask her backers like Goldman to divest their investments in the firearms industry.
Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton Donors Profit From Gun Industry
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-donors-profit-gun-industry-2262148
But the leading Democrats image as staunch opponents of the gun industry isnt the whole story. Some of Obamas and Clintons biggest political benefactors are firms with a financial stake in the sale of guns and ammunition. And neither Obama nor Clinton has joined the growing push backed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to pressure institutional investors to divest from firearms firms.
According to Nasdaq records, campaign finance reports and Securities and Exchange Commission filings reviewed by International Business Times, executives at the financial firms and hedge funds that hold some of the largest ownership stakes in firearms and ammo manufacturers have donated more than $15 million to the Democratic National Committee as well as to Obama and Clintons respective reelection campaigns and super PAC. Those firms have also spent $4.1 million on donations to the Clinton Foundation and speaking fees to the Clinton family.
Some of the firms executives have been among the biggest donors to the Democrats and their political machine:
In 2012, executives at Renaissance Technologies which owns stakes in Sturm & Ruger, Olin Corporation and Smith & Wesson Corp. gave $6 million to Priorities USA, the super PAC then supporting Obamas reelection campaign and now supporting Clintons 2016 campaign.
Executives at Goldman Sachs have collectively been among Clinton and Obamas top Senate contributors, as has Morgan Stanley in Clintons case. Those two firms were both among the top 10 institutional shareholders of gunmaker Smith & Wesson in September. Goldman is also listed as the single largest shareholder for ammunition company Vista Outdoors, and Morgan Stanley is also listed as a top shareholder of Sturm & Ruger and the Olin Corporation.
While Clinton has received campaign donations and political support from the financial firms betting big on guns, her family has also been paid a combined $1.5 million in speaking fees by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the Vanguard Group.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)she'll tell them to cut it out
DanTex
(20,709 posts)And as much as you would like the electorate to ignore that, it's a totally legitimate point to bring up.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)dogman
(6,073 posts)Someone like Bernie who would like to return it to the people is. Some talk it, some walk it, easy to see the truth of the matter.
insta8er
(960 posts)WASHINGTON Hillary Clintons campaign will hold a fundraiser in Washington on March 21 that will feature as one of its hosts Jeff Forbes, who until the end of last year worked as a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association.
Forbes, a former chief of staff to former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), was registered as a lobbyist for the NRA Institute from 2009 until the end of 2015 on issues such as protecting Second Amendment rights, and regulation and gun control, according to lobbying disclosures. He donated $2,700 to the Clinton campaign in April when he was still registered to lobby against gun control. In addition, a colleague at his Forbes-Tate lobbying shop, Elizabeth Greer, also donated $2,700 while registered to lobby for the NRA.
The donation, and Forbes hosting of the upcoming fundraiser, may complicate a central part of Clintons current broadside against her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The former secretary of state has made support for gun control a major part of her primary campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. She has been especially forceful in contrasting her longtime support for gun control laws to Sanders record, noting his support for some NRA-backed initiatives in the past.
[link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-nra-lobbyist_us_56d5e214e4b03260bf784001|
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)She has to do SOMETHING to make Sanders look bad while she looks "progressive."
MisterP
(23,730 posts)she can only win if nobody talks about her record, so it's all gauzy promises Stealing the Bern and bland assertions that "the Dems are party of X"--assertions that work only without bringing criteria or records into the conversation
but since she feels she's earned it after all the Republican attacks--and that NOW there's some indy asshole stealing this from her with non-party votes--she goes all "Bilbo near the Ring"