2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumitsrobert
(14,157 posts)You know Bernie's campaign is lying about that? Dont you?
HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)HRC is republican light and liberals / progressives know this... so her pushing fracking as SoS goes against those liberal / progressive ideals
She's is bought and paid for fossil fuel shill and this election cycle and her recent outburst just further validates that fact
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/march/pavillion-fracking-water-032916.html
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)BIG DIFFERENCE!
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)I just discovered this in an email from Bernie. The email was signed Claire Sandburg. At first, I read that as Claire Sanders and then went looking to find out about Bernie's digital organizing director Claire Sandburg:
I think we can safely say that any oil industry donations have had no effect on Bernie's campaign.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I mean, it's an interesting claim, but we don't have crosstabs on the income and job titles of the donors.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)When talking about Hillary's fossil fuel donations we are counting money bundled by fossil fuel lobbyists, and also money to her Superpacs.
When you count the money like this the difference is very huge.
Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Super PAC supporting her have received more than $4.5 million from the fossil fuel industry
Hillary Clintons campaign has been backed by the fossil fuel industry in a number of ways.
First, there are the direct contributions from people working for fossil fuel companies to Clintons campaign committee. According to the most recent filings, the committee has received $309,107 (as of March 21, 2016; source: Center for Responsive Politics) from such donors.
Next are the fossil fuel lobbyists, many of whom have also bundled contributions. These donations also flow to Clintons campaign committee. Greenpeace has tracked $1,465,610 in bundled and direct donations from lobbyists currently registered as lobbying for the fossil fuel industry. This number excludes donations from lobbyists who are employed directly by a fossil fuel companies, as those donations would have been included in the previous number.
Last are contributions from fossil fuel interests to Super PACs supporting Hillary Clinton. Greenpeace has found $3,250,000 in donations from large donors connected to the fossil fuel industry to Priorities Action USA, a Super PAC supporting Secretary Clintons campaign.
All told, the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 has received more than $4.5 million from lobbyists, bundlers, and large donors connected the fossil fuel industry.
Number of oil, gas and coal industry lobbyists that have made direct contributions to Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign: 58
58 registered oil, coal and gas lobbyists have personally given $138,400 to the Clinton campaign.
Of those 58, 11 are bundlers.
11 lobbyists have bundled $1,327,210 in contributions to the Clinton campaign.
43 lobbyists have contributed the maximum allowed ($2,700).
This includes:
Lobbyists who have reported lobbying for the oil and gas industry both in-house company lobbyists and hired lobbyists from K-Street firms.
This does not include:
Industry executives who are not registered as lobbyists.
Other employees of the oil and gas industry.
Board members.
Corporate PAC contributions.
Contributions by major investors.
Donations to Super PACS or non-profit groups.
Contributions made by trade associations to Super PACs.
As of March 21, Clinton has taken more from lobbyists in general than any other candidate besides Jeb Bush a total of $919,477.
Total amount bundled from oil and gas lobbyists: $1,327,210
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Sanders doesn't have anything approaching this type of money from fossil fuel connections.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Any questions?