Guess who has received $227K from Exelon (nuclear industry) since '03?

Barak Obama, that's who.

edited due to the fact that - evidently - there are some here who would rather twitch than read:

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Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/russ-baker/35007/america-and-nuclear-obamas-forgotten-track-record

Different dog, same handlers...

Sonoman

It's money that gets paid back with interest. Loan guarantees aren't even that.

Oh, and nobody has been taking advantage of those loan guarantees.

Paranoia fail.

:(

Especially those who are (or were) unafraid of nuclear power. Considering that nukes can be long-term power producers with low CO2 output, they were becoming convinced that the only problem was the waste. There are still those that are convinced that, if the Japanese nuke problem does not rise to the point of catastrophe, then nuke proponents will hold it up as an example and say, "See? Even under the worst of circumstances, nukes aren't any big deal." With every passing day, however, that scenario becomes less likely.

for Senate and President?

Since I work for one of the biggest banks in the country.

Some of the companies I've worked for in the past probably did not support candidates that I donated to.

From article:

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....

Right there in the article, it says...

Exactly.

Sonoman

copying and pasting the same, exact OP again here. And the entire post in bold, no less? You do understand that when you make the whole thing bold nothing actually stands out or is highlighted?

What I care

is what has been sold.

And it looks like the whole thing has been bought and sold.

I thought it needed some shouting.

Sonoman

Just sayin'

Obama has been deep in the pockets of the corporate power brokers for quite some time. Watch the Academy Award Winning documentary "Inside Job" and you'll see more "bought" connections to Obama but these are from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs, among others.

During the presidential primaries I posted on DU the close connections that Obama has with the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the wizard Jamie Dimon. Dimon and the Obamas were frequent dinner guests of Penny Pritzker (Hyatt Hotels aka no union workers here) at her mega mansion on the northside of my fair city: CHicago. I have friends who live down the block from the Pritzkers and they would tell us that the street was frequently blocked with limos in front of Pritzker's MacMasion. We later learned that these small dinner parties also included the CEO of Excelon, and Da Mayor King Richard II and his sweet wife.

Penny Pritzker was the head of Obama's finance committee.

This was the reason I did not support Obama in the primaries but I did volunteer for Obama after the nomination.

I knew we were getting a corporate powered president but my heart keep hoping that what he said in those eloquent speeches would become a reality.

I was wrong.

So as a Progressive Democrat, I am looking for a Progressive candidate to run in the Democratic Presidential Primaries.

Any suggestions?

Obama has been deep in the pockets of the corporate power brokers for quite some time. Watch the Academy Award Winning documentary "Inside Job" and you'll see more "bought" connections to Obama but these are from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs, among others.

During the presidential primaries I posted on DU the close connections that Obama has with the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the wizard Jamie Dimon. Dimon and the Obamas were frequent dinner guests of Penny Pritzker (Hyatt Hotels aka no union workers here) at her mega mansion on the northside of my fair city: CHicago. I have friends who live down the block from the Pritzkers and they would tell us that the street was frequently blocked with limos in front of Pritzker's MacMasion. We later learned that these small dinner parties also included the CEO of Excelon, and Da Mayor King Richard II and his sweet wife.

Penny Pritzker was the head of Obama's finance committee.

This was the reason I did not support Obama in the primaries but I did volunteer for Obama after the nomination.

I knew we were getting a corporate powered president but my heart keep hoping that what he said in those eloquent speeches would become a reality.

I was wrong.

So as a Progressive Democrat, I am looking for a Progressive candidate to run in the Democratic Presidential Primaries.

Any suggestions?

I didn't think so.

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....

Well, maybe that's where I got it...

Sonoman

from article:

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....


I don't know any other way to interpret it.

Sonoman

And totally destroy this perfect illusion with facts!?!?!

- The devil you say.......

K&R











http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27665.htm">Lifting The Veil: Obama And The Failure Of Capitalist Democracy

I remember a fracas here at DU some time ago where people were up in arms about contributors to campaigns who worked for such and such company. It didn't matter that they wee individual donors. It just seemed to matter who they worked for.

It is especially important if the employees are top level people.

Obama is bought and sold by several industries including the nuclear industry and the financial sector.

It is a shameful fact but true.

One of the reasons I preferred Edwards to Obama during the primaries was that I disagreed with Obama on nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy is very, very dangerous. I've always know that fact. After the recent events in Japan, anyone who tries to deny that nuclear energy kills is simply wrong.

Halliburton employees...DUers rightfully cried foul. What's good for the goose....


(Edit -- left a word out of my very brief post.)

Read the article.

Sonoman

Exelon Nuclear represents approximately 20% of the U.S. nuclear industry’s power capacity with 10 power plants and 17 reactors—located in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey —and produces enough electricity to power 17 million average American homes annually. Approximately 93% of Exelon’s total electricity generation is nuclear power.

http://www.exeloncorp.com/energy/generation/nuclear.aspx

I'm glad you aren't my comptroller or actuarial.

Sonoman

If he actually does that -- I want a RECALL -- !!

Illinois also has more nuclear power plants than any other state. Eleven of them and counting.

right?

nuclear industry, and that means money. I also find it interesting that before this all happened, Obama along with strong Republican support, wanted to build 20 new nuclear power plants, with huge amounts of government money to support the building of those plants.

I guess my problem is that I would rather know the truth of a matter than to have the truth match up with my preconcieved notions of what it should be.

Did you expect the nuclear energy industry to shun him for that? You people and your conspiracy theories...

Then go out and get you some Nuckie.

Does that put Obama in the pocket of Big Goon?

The hysterics here are amazing, this site is rapidly turning into a nutsite worse than WND.

If you've ever worked for an oil or insurance company, you're not allowed to donate to political campaigns because you're TAINTED!

I'm...EVIL!!!



BWAHAHAHAA!!!!


I love the Loony Left, bereft of logic.

to donate to candidates the company favored, but are unable to give directly because of some pesky laws?

Better come to Texas and look at just about any major company in the oil field, whether drilling, production, transmission or equipment.

Quite common. Why do employees bundle when they could simply give as an individual? Yes, why do they?

Hmmm. One reason might be for the company to be sure nobody took any of "their" money home. Such are the joys of working in a "right to work cheap" state.

BOTH parties. The few who eschew donations like that are often never elected to much..and if elected, are always vulnerable to ouster..

Our SYSTEM is what stinks..and unfortunately, the ones who manage to get into a position where they could change it....well they got there with the system we have, so they are in no hurry to rock the boat by changing it.. and the ones who lost to the system..well they have no power to do anything much about it. catch-22

The system does stink, we know that. We just thought we were voting to change it.

Guess not, so what do we do now?

and Dems have been collaborating with Repugs and GOP agenda for decades --

You'd think by now DU'ers would understand basics.

What I intended was that Obama is bought and sold, that's all.

I don't have any faith in anyone, anymore.

Money runs it all.

Sonoman

And, not to mention Wall Street millions from their "employees".

Corruption is a complete bipartisan affair. Or is that buypartisan?

donated a lot of money to Obama. Illinois is Obama's home turf.

but, I knew his position on this years ago when I donated to his U.S. senatorial campaign.

The google was a much better search engine back then.

The biggest thing for me at the time was his position on a public option and when I donated to his campaign way back when, I wrote him a letter to express my opinion about health care and enclosed a check. I had my former employer deliver it for me as he was attending a fundraiser that Obama personally appeared at.

Anyway, I'm still a bit disillusioned about the whole thing. All I can say is that, now more than ever, I really wished he'd kept his promise on that one.

He has been nuke friendly from the get go. Is it really a surprise the nuke industry would donate to him?

You act like he hasnt stated his intentions when it comes to nuclear energy from the get go.

I swear sometimes people just want to be outraged.

Did yopu not pay attention during the election? Are you going to rectify that this time?

We're paying attention "now" in light of the disaster called Japan. There are serious and valid concerns regarding the safety of our own nuclear power structure, especially when you consider the corporate corruption we're seeing on unprecedented levels.



I try not to get "outraged" too often. It's bad for your health. So is our nuclear power industry.

for YEARS into the grounds around Braidwood, Godley and Braceville Illinois and never bothered to tell anyone about it. They also had a diesel oil fuel leak, cleaned it up and dumped the clean-up into a local ditch and never told anyone. People were drinking the water, bathing in it, cooking with it until the water started turning OILY. THEN they found out about the damn oil dump. The Tritium issue came to light when a journalist questioned a resident about it. NO ONE KNEW about the leaks that had been going on for YEARS. Here's a snip from just one interview (you really should read the whole thing!). If you want to know about this HUGE Illinois story, just Google "Exelon" Braidwood, Braceville and Godley Illinois. My brother, S-I-L, 2 nieces and nephew lived in Godley when this happened. Their water was contaminated with Tritium water and diesel oil.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june06/tritium_4-17.html

<snip>
ARJUN MAKHIJANI, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: Tritium in any amount would present a health and safety standard. Just because there is a drinking water limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter doesn't mean that 5,000 or 1,000 picocuries per liter won't hurt you. They do pose a risk, proportionately a lower risk, but it's not a zero risk.

So I think Exelon should just cool it and stop telling people that there is no harm from low levels of tritium, because it's contrary to the established science, and the official scientific guidance, and the basis of all regulations.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: Makhijani believes tritium acts like a bullet inside the body's cells, breaking the DNA strands, leaving damaged cells that can develop into cancers. Those most vulnerable are pregnant women and children.

ARJUN MAKHIJANI: Tritium has higher risks for children, because they're growing faster and their cells are multiplying faster. So whenever you have that kind of situation, radioactivity generally will have a greater impact, and tritium especially because it crosses the placenta. <snip>

Exelon should have been told to keep their money.

http://thebrokenelbow.com/


<snip>
In the case of one of the leading Democratic contenders, Barack Obama, the nuclear industry’s bet paid off handsomely. Exelon and the nuclear lobby, the Nuclear Energy Institute, opposed Obama’s Bill and within a few months their lobbying helped gut the legislation.

Out went that requirement to “immediately” notify the authorities of any nuclear leakage and in its place the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was asked to “consider” public notification in the light of the findings of a special task force set up to examine the tritium discharges. Predictably, that task force reported that “existing reporting requirements for abnormal spills and leaks are at a level that is risk-informed and appropriate”. The Obama Bill was also re-written – the words apparently chosen by Exelon – to make it clear that State and local authorities would not be able to exercise regulatory oversight of nuclear reactors.

The one concession made by the nuclear industry was agreement that plants would “voluntarily” report leakages from now on. But as David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists told the New York Times: “…because it is all voluntary who’s to say where things will be in a few years from now?”<snip>

<snip>
So why did Barack Obama water down his Bill and allow the nuclear industry to remove its heart and soul? Answer: they gave him lots of money.<snip>

Read the entire thing at the link above.

And, more, of course --

Didn't have time to read all the links -- but saved it ...

New Folder: Corporate CRIMES!!

:(

building an unbelievably amazing high school...HUGE with state of the art everything. Godley has a beautiful city park, paid for by Exelon. NOW the principal of that extraordinary Exelon High School (Reed Custer High School) is now questioning if getting cancer and dying from it is really worth it. A little late to question THAT, I'd say.

There are cancer clusters in Godley. Deformed wild animals. Deformed dogs and cats. One lady had saved a dead deformed mouse missing legs. Pets were dying from drinking their water. Babies were born deformed or sickly. The people in Godley had to drink bottled water (paid for by Exelon). There was a horse ranch nearby and Exelon had to provide for the care of those expensive horses. The stories go on and on and on and on. It's truly unbelievable what they did. THEN, the assholes (Exelon) had the nerve to hold a community meeting and catered it with a HUGE spread of free food and drink and tried schmoozing the masses. Pathetic. The people didn't fall for it though. For once.

isn't up on its feet and bringing these corporations down?!!?

And it's not even like this is severely delayed stuff -- these people are suffering in

real time!!

because of the Union busting in Wisconsin. Maybe this Japan disaster will enlighten them to the dangers of Nuclear Energy and they'll get off their behinds and do something about it. I really doubt it though. :(

:evilgrin:

:sarcasm:

That's right, same guy.

Gasp!! That's why President Obama wanted to spare Pell grants in his budget plan!! U. of CA has him right where they want him: in their pocket!

:sarcasm:

Read more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x682474

Rahm Emanuel was a "key player" representing Unicom Corp., the parent of Commonwealth Edison, in forging its merger with Peco Energy Co. to create utility giant Exelon Corp. in 1999 when Goldman Sachs was also advising Unicom.<9>

Exelon's Political Action Committee (PAC) is EXELONPAC.<10> The company is positioned to profit from "expensive carbon" and has been lobbying for cap and trade of carbon dioxide emissions.<11> Executives at the company have close ties to the Obama administration as advisors and fundraisers, and Obama's chief political strategist David Axelrod did consulting work for it.<11>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exelon

also:

Rowe is best known for his vocal support of the proposed cap and trade mechanism for carbon emission control.<1><2>

His company left the US Chamber of Commerce over the latter's highly public opposition to cap and trade.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowe_(CEO)_Exelon

Government officials being in the pocket of corporations is bad. Watch the movie "the Corporation" and see what they have done and are doing. It is NOT a good thing, no matter who you are...Democrat or Repuke.

It's bullshit smears with zero evidence. Funny how the U of CA donated much more money and no one is making up conspiracy theories about why Pres. Obama refuses to cut Pell grants.

No need for Democrats to sit with the leadership of the energy industry.
This attitude will get you 8 years of Huckabee....or Palin...or WMD...ooops excuse me for exposing the reality of such BS....

What happened to "clean coal" LOL!

An earthquake in "Kolley-4-knee-ya"..."it could never happen to us!" Earthquake on the Mississippi..."Not even hardly."

Not very surprising anymore...


Hillary's gotten alot of money from the Health industry. And she's the one that started this. X_X

what a shame...

. . . didn't get much response.

they gave more to Johnnie boy.

I don't hate him as much as most here, so I really can't get too worked up over something like this.

That way no matter who wins, they're owed some influence.

Who is Barak Obama? That looks like freeper spelling of our president's name.

Sometimes I get the idea that people post here just to bash Obama. What's their solution to all of the issues that he has to deal with? Who would want to be in his shoes?

World population will reach 7 billion this yesar. There are about twice as many people on Earth as there were about the time Obama was born. They all want energy.

Are nuclear power producers inherently evil? Or illegal? What's wrong with their contributing to Obama?

And if not nuclear power, what? Oil? No problems there, right?

Would you rather have Mitt Romney for Pres, '13? He has his own money and doesn't have to take from Excelon or Wall Street.

Never heard of him.

I'll bet Big Oil would have slipped him an even million to nix the nukes if he'd only asked.
$277,000 won't even buy you a good federal judge these days.