Open mic catches Bank of America official vowing to ‘help’ Perry

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/open-mic-catches-bank-of-america-official-vowing-to-help-perry/

In what looked like a covert lobbying effort, a top Bank of America official brushed past Gov. Rick Perry (R) during a New Hampshire business breakfast on Wednesday, shook his hand and uttered the words, “Bank of America, we will help you out,” before walking away as if nothing had been said.

The brief exchange was caught by a CSPAN camera, but went unnoticed until the blog ZeroHedge pointed it out. ZeroHedge also correctly placed the man’s identity as James Mahoney, Bank of America’s director of public policy.

Confirming the man’s identity to Politico’s Ben Smith, a company spokesman said the offer of help was for “non-partisan policy expertise,” noting that Mahoney is a Democrat.

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these corporations need to be smashed.

We gots a nice economy here, wouldn't it just be
tragic if sumtin, I'm not sayin what mind you,
should come along and hurt dat economy?

Tesha, channeling a banker talking to a pol

I'm sure they're more than capable enough to donate the maximum amount, which means several hundred of them can raise the same amount of cash that would take several thousand working poor stiffs to do. This is why politics is skewed to the rich in the US, no publicly funded elections.