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Center for American Progress (aka Think Progress) corporate blood money donors released on Podesta joining admin
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Democrites
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Date: December 13, 2013 09:23PM
WASHINGTON — In a late Friday afternoon news dump, The Center for American Progress published a list of their 2013 corporate donors, who each contributed $10,000 or more to CAP’s $42 million budget.
Chicago native and founder John D. Podesta — former President Bill Clinton’s final chief of staff — will join the Obama administration early next year as a special senior advisor, prompting calls for CAP to release the full list of its corporate donors.
CAP was quick to play down the donors’ influence on research projects.
“American Progress receives more than 90 percent of its funding from individuals and foundations,” a statement issued with the donors list read. “Funding from corporations makes up less than 6 percent of funding for the Center for American Progress and less than 3 percent of funding for the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Corporate donations do not fund new research.”
Maybe not, but several corporations entrenched in the healthcare industry, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Blue Shield of California and a handful of others donated significant sums to CAP and its advocacy arm ThinkProgress, which has long championed President Barack Obama’s massive, deeply troubled overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system. CAP also released a report in 2009 that applauded the de-facto segregation of the reworked healthcare industry, which the Center called “racial concordance.” (RELATED: Obamacare seeks to segregate patients, doctors by race)
Another corporate donor, Eli Lilly, poured thousands of dollars into CAP as a member of its Business Alliance group as debates over Medicare cuts took place in Washington, D.C. Medicare covers many profitable drugs manufactured by the industry giant.
But Podesta wasn’t involved with soliciting corporate donations — and hadn’t been aware of who the donors were, current CAP president Neera Tanden claimed in a Thursday interview, according to The New York Times.
The list of donors CAP provided also fail to include the millions contributed by foundations owned by large corporations.
Corporate Supporters in Alphabetical Order (2013)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California*
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google*
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Livingston Group
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Monitor Deloitte
Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA*
MyWireless.Org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, or TECRO
Tata Sons Limited
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo
Chicago native and founder John D. Podesta — former President Bill Clinton’s final chief of staff — will join the Obama administration early next year as a special senior advisor, prompting calls for CAP to release the full list of its corporate donors.
CAP was quick to play down the donors’ influence on research projects.
“American Progress receives more than 90 percent of its funding from individuals and foundations,” a statement issued with the donors list read. “Funding from corporations makes up less than 6 percent of funding for the Center for American Progress and less than 3 percent of funding for the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Corporate donations do not fund new research.”
Maybe not, but several corporations entrenched in the healthcare industry, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Blue Shield of California and a handful of others donated significant sums to CAP and its advocacy arm ThinkProgress, which has long championed President Barack Obama’s massive, deeply troubled overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system. CAP also released a report in 2009 that applauded the de-facto segregation of the reworked healthcare industry, which the Center called “racial concordance.” (RELATED: Obamacare seeks to segregate patients, doctors by race)
Another corporate donor, Eli Lilly, poured thousands of dollars into CAP as a member of its Business Alliance group as debates over Medicare cuts took place in Washington, D.C. Medicare covers many profitable drugs manufactured by the industry giant.
But Podesta wasn’t involved with soliciting corporate donations — and hadn’t been aware of who the donors were, current CAP president Neera Tanden claimed in a Thursday interview, according to The New York Times.
The list of donors CAP provided also fail to include the millions contributed by foundations owned by large corporations.
Corporate Supporters in Alphabetical Order (2013)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California*
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google*
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Livingston Group
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Monitor Deloitte
Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA*
MyWireless.Org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, or TECRO
Tata Sons Limited
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo
Re: Center for American Progress (aka Think Progress) corporate blood money donors released on Podesta joining admin
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Liberal hypocrisy
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Date: December 13, 2013 09:28PM
I think we call this "hypocrisy". But silly me, libtards are pure of heart and have the best of intentions for the rest of us, even if we don't know any better. Certainly better than those evil Conservatives with their rants about individual liberties and limited government. Bad, bad.
Re: Center for American Progress (aka Think Progress) corporate blood money donors released on Podesta joining admin
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Tsk tsk
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Date: December 13, 2013 09:36PM
Bank of America?
Goldman?
DeVry?
Northrop Grumman?
Visa?
WalMart?
lol!
Goldman?
DeVry?
Northrop Grumman?
Visa?
WalMart?
lol!
Re: Center for American Progress (aka Think Progress) corporate blood money donors released on Podesta joining admin
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Pacifister
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Date: December 13, 2013 09:44PM
I only give to the Human Fund, money for people
Re: Center for American Progress (aka Think Progress) corporate blood money donors released on Podesta joining admin
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They should run disclaimers
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Date: December 13, 2013 10:10PM
"This progressive talking point... brought to you by Walmart"
Re: Center for American Progress (aka Think Progress) corporate blood money donors released on Podesta joining admin
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Thems Dems
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Date: December 14, 2013 03:08AM
Those companies are making such contributions because they want to rail through the amnesty bills on rewrite immigration laws that will benefit them. Companies are running out of growth ideas and in order to regain great profitability, their only answer and potential next move is to have an influx of cheap labor where they'll fire their older, higher paid employees and bring in someone cheaper.
Instant profit increase. But, it can't be sustained, because the lag it will put on our system will pull everything down the drain. Companies are short-sighted as they want quick results to please their stockholders, but they also don't have enough vision for 5 years down the road to realize where their latest ideas might take them ... which could be right into bankruptcy.
Instant profit increase. But, it can't be sustained, because the lag it will put on our system will pull everything down the drain. Companies are short-sighted as they want quick results to please their stockholders, but they also don't have enough vision for 5 years down the road to realize where their latest ideas might take them ... which could be right into bankruptcy.