2016 Postmortem
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Blackstone Group.
Hillary postponed her Blackstone fundraising shindig. It was scheduled for this week. It was not her first of this election cycle. Bill is doing a Blackstone fundraiser Saturday.
Blackstone recently got fined by the SEC. Most commentators think they got off easy. Blackstone is involved in Shadow Banking. Hillary has been critical of Bernie's financial plan, particularly of what she claims is his lack of a plan to do anything about it.
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Meanwhile, two other finance industry fundraisers that were set to take place before the New Hampshire primary have been rescheduled for later dates. The campaign declined to say why.
Clinton was originally supposed to attend an event in Boston on Friday, organized by Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine, the managing partner of Sankaty Advisors, an affiliate of Bain Capital, according to details obtained by the Sunlight Foundations Political Party Time. The fundraiser has been rescheduled for a later date that the campaign would not reveal.
In addition, a New York fundraiser billed as a Conversation with Hillary co-hosted by Matt Mallow, chief legal officer for the asset management firm BlackRock, that was originally scheduled for Jan. 28 has been moved to Feb. 16.
The next day, Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser in New York hosted by real estate investor Bal Das and Valérie Demont, a lawyer who heads the U.S.-India practice at Pepper Hamilton, specializing in international mergers and acquisitions.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-blasts-wall-street-but-still-draws-millions-in-contributions/2016/02/04/05e1be00-c9c2-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html
Clinton Denounces Corporate Crime While Accepting Cash From Blackstone, Firm Sanctioned By SEC
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-denounces-corporate-crime-while-accepting-cash-blackstone-firm
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Blackstone Group is the biggest shadow bank, said Emanuel Friedman, CEO of hedge fund firm EJF Capital, who spoke on the panel Tuesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif. We are also a shadow bank.
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http://www.pionline.com/article/20150429/ONLINE/150429836/milken-conference-private-capital-executives-embrace-shadow-banking
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)follow the money.....
cali
(114,904 posts)on her corporate benefactors.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)but I'm sure you are up to the task
cali
(114,904 posts)your persistence, I did not mean it as a dig or anything. Just wanted to make that clear.
cali
(114,904 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)A Great example of Hillary's duplicity. And, she thinks she can get away with it!
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global1
(25,253 posts)Initially she looked flummoxed. As she was responding she kept backing up. I wonder what that means in body language speak. And at the end she finished with saying something about women - which she knows anytime she mentions women - she gets applause. I think she's been told by her debate/town hall advisers - that that is her fall back line if she gets in trouble - she'll end in applause.
Again - if she has nothing to hide - she needs to release the transcripts of these speeches. We need to know that she is not telling us one thing and telling them something completely different being the chameleon she is. How else can she expect people to vote for her if she doesn't want to release those transcripts. It kind of reinforces those thoughts about her being untrustworthy.
We shall see. I thought it revealed a side of her that has caused her problems before. Thanks for your observations of what you saw. I had the biggest problem with her answer to taking the GS Money and I saw what you did how she "stepped back." I felt she realized she'd given an answer that might cause her problems and she tried to cover that up.
But...I was glad the question was asked.
global1
(25,253 posts)her answer?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell reported it on her show and it was picked up later on through the day by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann on their Bloomberg Business Show and their MSNBC Show.
I was surprised it got as much play as it did. It was sort of "sneaked in" with only Andrea Mitchell doing a longer segment on it...yet it was mentioned in other snips with reporters throughout the day.
I am embarrassed to admit that I've been watching more MSM the last few weeks than I've done in years.
But...I figure its "Opposition Research?"
Anyway, there was more coverage of that Hillary Snip than I ever expected. Yet, today it seemed to be heavy on dissing Bernie as a Socialist..yadda, yadda. I guess they have to be careful not to go too far... to keep their jobs. But, then, don't we all...these days.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)But for WHO?
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, cali.
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cali
(114,904 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Incredible.
cali
(114,904 posts)ErisDiscordia
(443 posts)Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?