2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHey Plouffe: I know what a fraudster looks and sounds like and Bernie is not it.
In your honor, I am sending another donation to Bernie.
They are soooooo desperate to get Bernie out of the race which begs the question WHY?
And spare me the stupid Bernie is hurting her drivel.
And David, as my grandmother used to say, you might want to take a good, hard look in the mirror...
LexVegas
(6,067 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"According to the financial statements, Plouffe earned $1.5 million in 2010 from his management consulting firm, Plouffe Strategies. That figure included his work for Boeing and GE, and nearly $500,000 he received for speaking engagements.He earned $108,000 more from AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm he runs with Axelrod.
The White House said on Friday that like Daley, Plouffe has agreed to recuse himself on matters relating to GE and Boeing for two years. In addition, he will abstain for one year from engaging on issues related to any of the twenty organizations that paid him speaking honoraria in 2010.
As one of the masterminds of Obamas successful campaign, Plouffe was well paid for his speaking engagements. The total of $494,700 the documents show he received in honoraria included $100,000 from MTN Nigeria, a South Africa-based multinational telecommunications company, for a single speaking engagement in December."
http://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/whs-plouffe-earned-15m-last-year-049842
Obama associate got $100,000 fee from affiliate of firm doing business with Iran
David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser who was President Obamas 2008 campaign manager, accepted a $100,000 speaking fee in 2010 from an affiliate of a company doing business with Irans government.
A subsidiary of MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company, paid Plouffe for two speeches he made in Nigeria in December 2010, about a month before he joined the White House staff.
Since Plouffes speeches, MTN Group has come under intensified scrutiny from U.S. authorities because of its activities in Iran and Syria, which are under international sanctions intended to limit the countries access to sensitive technology. At the time of Plouffes speeches, MTN had been in a widely reported partnership for five years with a state-owned Iranian telecommunications firm.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-associate-got-100000-fee-from-affiliate-of-firm-doing-business-with-iran/2012/08/05/5e6888a2-dda2-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=313074&sub=trans
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)I've donated twice since New York.
We're paying Bernie to keep this going to the convention.
Anyone who doesn't like that is free to whine and wring their hands.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)TrueDemVA
(250 posts)GO BERNIE!!!
Beowulf
(761 posts)and then providing BAU once elected.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Special interest Money & lobbyists out of politics. Stopping endless wars and occupying countries. For the end to regime changes. For Single Payer/ Medicare for all and negotiated pharma rates. For the environment. Education & income inequality.
For Annie Oakley & endless lies and corruption in politics!
This is for All those doors I knocked on for Obama because I believed that we could see change in my lifetime. Negotiation is just a start not an end!
Yes we can!
This is for my Kids' Future!
Even if Bernie doesn't get in, we will fight it to the very end. Every last breath! We just took over the Colorado State Party, one by one we they will all come down.
I want a future I can believe in!
#FeelTheBern
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)I'm guessing she'd rather not go to the convention relying on the support of the superdelegates. Three months is a long time, with Bernie's national poll numbers creeping upwards and the FBI investigation hovering in the background.