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| 'Rural Americans For Hillary', Read 'Monsanto Corporation' |
| 2007-10-20 |
| So later this month, according to THIS INVITATION, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, is holding a "Rural Americans for Hillary" lunch and campaign briefing at the end of this monthÂ…. ..but she's holding it in Washington, DC...at a lobbying firmÂ…...and specifically, though it's not mentioned in the invitation, at the lobbying firm Troutman Sanders Public Affairs, which just so happens to lobby for the controversial multinational agri-biotech Monsanto. You read that right: Monsanto, about which there are serious questions about its culpability regarding 56 Superfund Sites, wanton and "outrageous" pollution, and the decidedly unkosher (and quite metaphoric) genetically-bred "Superpig." ...A company that the website "Ethical Investing" labels "the world's most unethical and harmful investment." Holding an agri-summit in the plush halls of the lobbyists for Monsanto doesn't sound like the kind of "rural Americans" a presidential candidate would necessarily want to be photographed with. Particularly if Clinton's two primary opponents -- former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. -- don't take money from lobbyists and are trying to depict the frontrunner as too much a part of the corrupt Washington system, lobbyists, corporate America, et alÂ…. But then again, it doesn't say Clinton will attend this luncheon -- just senior staffers and congressional endorsers! (Is that better or worse?) |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 WTF, don't leave out the thousands of 'undocumented' agri |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-20 19:38 |
| #2 no farmers for hillary |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-10-20 13:54 |
| #1 If she holds true to the current Hsu financing scheme then thousands of maximum dollar contributions from hardscrabble dirt farmers will arrive in her coffers. Ma and pa Kettle shore do like that there Hillary! |
| Posted by: WTF 2007-10-20 11:45 |