Sen. Clinton slammed for taking $400K from lobbyists

[nevadamedic]

Story Highlights

Clinton was booed by an audience of liberal bloggers in Chicago over weekend
She reacted by saying $400,000 in lobbyist money will not influence her
Former Sen. John Edwards used chance to stir support for himself
Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama have sworn not to take lobbyists' money

Over the weekend, Clinton was booed by an audience of liberal bloggers in Chicago when she defended taking money from Washington lobbyists, something both Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards have vowed not to do.

"I don't think, based on my 35 years fighting for what I believe in, anybody seriously believes I'm going to be influenced by a lobbyist or a particular interest group," Clinton said.

"A lot of these lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans. They actually do. They represent nurses, they represent social workers -- yes, they represent corporations that employ a lot of people."

Edwards' response was to ask, "How many people in this room have a Washington lobbyist working for you?"

"You are not represented by Washington lobbyists. We need to cut these people off," he said, to cheers.

However, while eschewing contributions from Washington lobbyists, Edwards has accepted about $10,000 in contributions from lobbyists in his home state of North Carolina, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/...ats/index.html

Even her fellow Liberal's dont like her! The realize she is crooked and greedy. She speaks for big business and anyone else who can afford her. This is definatly someone we don't want anywhere near the White House ever again!

Once again Edwards proves what kind of hipocrit he actually is, jumping on Hillary for taking cash from Lobbiests and then taking money himself.

[red states rule]

and she is in the pocket of the union thugs

August 07, 2007
Big Labor Says Jump: Will Hillary Ask 'How High?'
Rick Moran
Senator Hillary Clinton brought her campaign to Chicago today to speak at a candidate forum sponsored by the AFL-CIO. Big Labor is sizing up the candidates in order to aid them in the decision on who they should endorse among the Democrats for President.

Before her plane even touched down, a controversy erupted over the connection of a Clinton staffer to a public relations firm that takes on anti-union clients:
Labor activists demand that Clinton give the aide, Mark J. Penn, a choice: sever connections to the public relations firm that he heads or leave the campaign. Apart from working as a strategist and pollster for Clinton,

Penn is worldwide president and chief executive of Burson-Marsteller, which has more than 100 offices in 59 countries. The firm's clients include Cintas Corp. of Cincinnati, which manufactures and launders corporate uniforms. With Burson-Marsteller's assistance, Cintas has staved off a push to unionize its workforce, and the public relations firm's website at one point boasted of its work in parrying union pressure.
Penn is pleading for understanding, saying that his own PR work doesn't involve any anti-union activities. But the unions aren't buying it:
"Learning that Mark Penn was CEO of a company that in fact conducts some of its business busting unions was very, very problematic to the AFL-CIO, as well as to many other unions, and we made that clear" to the Clinton campaign, said Karen Ackerman, AFL-CIO political director. "This is an issue that continues."

Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa said in a statement: "We have expressed our concerns to Sen. Clinton about Mark Penn and his firm's work for anti-union companies. We value Sen. Clinton's commitment to strengthen America's middle class. But as long as Mark Penn continues to profit from his company's involvement with anti-union companies, this issue will not go away."
The union boys can't be any clearer in their message to Hillary: Dump Penn or lose our endorsement.

For Hillary, the question is one of practical politics. She may not need the union's endorsement for the primaries. And since union support to whoever the Democratic candidate would be is a given, perhaps she might defy their wishes in this matter.

What is more likely would be some kind of compromise where Penn is "reassigned" to a role outside of the campaign and then quietly brought back once Clinton wraps up the nomination.

Either way, Clinton shows that she's not kowtowing to union pressure which means more to general election voters than those who vote in Democratic primaries.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/big_labor_says_jump_will_hilla.html

[avatar4321]

What a joke. Obama and Edwards are both taking just as much money from lobbyists. Heck we have an entire thread on Edwards taking money from the trial lawyer lobbyests.

[red states rule]

What a joke. Obama and Edwards are both taking just as much money from lobbyists. Heck we have an entire thread on Edwards taking money from the trial lawyer lobbyests.

When have libs ever lived thier lives the way they tell the rest of us to live ours?

Hillary is doing what the rest of them are doing

[82Marine89]

Even her fellow Liberal's (Liberals) dont (don't) like her! The (They) realize she is crooked and greedy. She speaks for big business and anyone else who can afford her. This is definatly (definately) someone we don't want anywhere near the White House ever again!

Someone's not smarter than a fifth grader.

[red states rule]

Someone's not smarter than a fifth grader.

They why is he/she not voting for the Dems?

[82Marine89]

So NM is a he/she? Is there something we need to know about you two? Does he whisper his voting habits in your ear as he gives you a reach around?

[82Marine89]

They (Then) why is he/she not voting for the Dems?

Proof reading is your friend.

[red states rule]

So NM is a he/she? Is there something we need to know about you two? Does he whisper his voting habits in your ear as he gives you a reach around?

Having a little meltdown?

[avatar4321]

They why is he/she not voting for the Dems?

even a fifth grader can see through the Democrat propaganda.

[Pale Rider]

Oh but WAIT.... hitlery is a sure thing to get elected... :uhoh:

[avatar4321]

Oh but WAIT.... hitlery is a sure thing to get elected... :uhoh:

and Guiliani is the only person who can beat her :uhoh:

right....

[Pale Rider]

and Guiliani is the only person who can beat her :uhoh:

right....

Right....

... the MUD hasn't even started flying yet. Just wait. When that happens, these so called "front runners" are going to find themselves in the BACK.

[red states rule]

Right....

... the MUD hasn't even started flying yet. Just wait. When that happens, these so called "front runners" are going to find themselves in the BACK.

It sould happen - sure

I remember the "experts" saying Rudy would be way back in the field, if not out of the race by now