Zaid Jilani of The Intercept is reporting that Clinton will be traveling to Philadelphia and New York City for private fundraisers hosted by financial titans Franklin Square Capital Partners and one of the top executives of BlackRock, respectively. The FS Energy & Power Fund — one of Franklin Square’s prominent investment funds — is primarily responsible for funding fracking and offshore oil drilling, meaning that much of the campaign money Clinton will be raising in Philadelphia will come indirectly from the fossil fuel industry. And as Mother Jones has previously reported, one of Clinton’s lasting legacies during her time as Secretary of State was the propagation of fracking around the world.

BlackRock, based in New York City, has longstanding ties to Hillary Clinton. Cheryl Mills, who sits on the board of the Clinton Foundation, is also a member of BlackRock’s board of directors. Mills was also one of Clinton’s top advisors at the State Department, and worked in the Bill Clinton administration:

Prior to founding BlackIvy, Cheryl served as counselor and chief of staff at the U.S. Department of State where she managed the foreign policy and operational priorities for the $55 billion agency… She previously worked in Washington, D.C., where she served as deputy counsel to the President at the White House. Cheryl’s legal experience also includes serving as associate counsel to the President, as deputy general counsel of the Clinton/Gore Transition Planning Foundation.

As her Clinton Foundation bio notes, Cheryl Mills also worked as an associate at Hogan Lovells (now Hogan Hartson), the same law firm where current Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts worked. And as Jilani pointed out, BlackRock raising money for Clinton is a good business strategy for them, as a Clinton presidency would mean that BlackRock’s business model of long-term investments over short-term trading will be rewarded with additional handouts from the federal government.

http://usuncut.com/politics/wall-street-hosting-fundraisers-for-clinton-before-iowa/

fracking on "some" federal land, phased in over "some" unspecified time. This is Clinton-Speak for "She sure as hell won't do a thing."

If someone wants to defend or correct this position plez feel free.

...you'll be labeled as "being nasty".

that I've ever gotten a decent response. Can't blame them because they recognize that it's hard to pin down H. Clinton as to her positions. They just need to have a signature line that says "I support H. Clinton's positions on all issues, whatever they are. Don't ask me for specifics."

She was dumbfounded to discover this.

how could anyone think it is a good idea?