BIG TPP news: New balance shoes says obama admin bought silence with military contract

[restorefreedom]

hmmmm i wonder where hillary comes down on this? we know where bernie stands....

New Balance, a Boston company that makes athletic shoes, says someone from the Obama administration promised to help get the company a substantial military contract in exchange for the company ending its vocal opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.

Despite the promise, no order for shoes was ever placed by the Pentagon, so now the company is renewing its opposition to TPP. The Boston Globe reported Tuesday:

“We swallowed the poison pill that is TPP so we could have a chance to bid on these contracts,” said Matt LeBretton, New Balance’s vice president of public affairs. “We were assured this would be a top-down approach at the Department of Defense if we agreed to either support or remain neutral on TPP. [But] the chances of the Department of Defense buying shoes that are made in the USA are slim to none while Obama is president.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/13/new-balance-claims-obama-administration-promised-shoe-contract-for-silence-on-tpp/

[Ash_F]

1. Wow. recced

[AzDar]

2. Anyone supporting these disastrous agreements should be fucking ASHAMED... including the President.

[Fumesucker]

3. K&R

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. A little peek behind the curtain --

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I know you guys hate Hillary with a passion

I know you guys and gals hate Hillary Clinton with a passion and will use right wing websites to attack her and I have made my peace with it but I haven't made my peace with you guys and gals using right wing websites to attack President Obama:

Hot Air is a conservative American political blog.[1] It is written by the pseudonymous Allahpundit, Ed Morrissey, Mary Katharine Ham, Erika Johnsen, and Jazz Shaw on the weekends.

Hot Air was founded by Michelle Malkin, a conservative author and blogger, in 2006, taking over hotair.com from a defunct personal website. Although Malkin served as the publisher and CEO of Hot Air, she exercised little editorial control over the site's various commentators. Morrissey, a Roman Catholic, is the more socially conservative (though gay-friendly) of the two current bloggers, whereas Allahpundit is more libertarian and an atheist. Hot Air also carries posts from a selection of conservative and libertarian bloggers in its "Green Room." In February 2010, Salem Communications purchased Hot Air.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Air

[JudyM]

6. Pity that MSM doesn't report FACTS like this. If you are disputing the *facts* please post evidence.

[Wilms]

7. Here's the Boston Globe.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/04/11/new-balance-says-obama-administration-reneged-deal-involving-military-business/zUdUWa23ZWv53D5a9AjNII/story.html

[restorefreedom]

8. the discussions came from a variety of websites

but the source article for them all is from boston globe

here ya go


https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/04/11/new-balance-says-obama-administration-reneged-deal-involving-military-business/zUdUWa23ZWv53D5a9AjNII/story.html