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- Common Sense
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$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented
Sanders is not going to let people forget about all the money Clinton received from Wall Street.
$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented
(CNN)Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.
In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
The analysis was made at a time when Hillary Clinton has been under scrutiny for her ties to Wall Street, which has been a major focus of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail."What being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter, having a super PAC that raised $15 million from Wall Street, that throughout one's life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests," Sanders said
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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So, they should have demanded less than they could get?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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There is nothing wrong with Bill and Hillary making as much as they can on the speaking tours, I don't blame them one bit for doing it.
However, I think it does raise fair questions as to what conflict of interest might have been created by making those speeches and receiving large sums of money. Bernie is right in questioning just how cozy her relationships are with Wall Street and big banks.
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The danger in any political figure in taking relatively large sums of money from some group, PAC, or individual is the perception of reciprocity for the sole benefit of the benefactor.
Not good in a representative republic.
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Rongone wrote:
The danger in any political figure in taking relatively large sums of money from some group, PAC, or individual is the perception of reciprocity for the sole benefit of the benefactor.
Not good in a representative republic.
Agree with you 100%
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Make as much as you can but don't play like there is no conflict. A 15 million super PAC funded by Wall Street.
I would love to see the transcripts from the $225,000 dollar speeches. (3) They have asked her to release them...... cricket so far.
"CNN’s Anderson Cooper pressed Clinton on her $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs at a Democratic town hall on Wednesday night in New Hampshire. Clinton stumbled in her response saying, “Well I don’t know that’s what they offered,” adding that “every secretary of state that I know has done that.”"
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Make as much as you can but don't play like there is no conflict. A 15 million super PAC funded by Wall Street.
I would love to see the transcripts from the $225,000 dollar speeches. (3) They have asked her to release them...... cricket so far.
"CNN’s Anderson Cooper pressed Clinton on her $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs at a Democratic town hall on Wednesday night in New Hampshire. Clinton stumbled in her response saying, “Well I don’t know that’s what they offered,” adding that “every secretary of state that I know has done that.”"
Yea, she hasn't had good explanations and reactions to the questions about this.
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The danger in any political figure in taking relatively large sums of money from some group, PAC, or individual is the perception of reciprocity for the sole benefit of the benefactor.
Not good in a representative republic.Agree with you 100%
Unfortunately until the Supreme Court decision about about money in politics is amended or reversed we will see more of the same.
As far as Hillary's actual positions about finance and banking here is how Politifact rates her.
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What do you think of the excuse "every secretary of state that I know has done that".
She is using that same excuse for the e-mail scandal. 1000's of classified e mails on a home brewed server? Some classified at the highest level our nation has.
So, so pathetic!
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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If you make your fortune doing anything you might have baggage.
Make it extracting things from the earth and you may be very sympathetic to those denying climate change.
Get money from them to run for congress and you support their argument.
Don't deny that they all have baggage
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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