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hmm, the truth
Posted by: holymoly ()
Date: October 20, 2014 11:22AM

Ronald Klain, President Obama’s new “Ebola czar,” is a lawyer and political operative who once lobbied against asbestos victims, but reportedly signed off on a $535 million federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer that later went bankrupt.

Klain, who was also a former adviser to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, was paid $80,000 to lobby Congress on behalf of a bill that would have shielded a roofing company from worker lawsuits, according to a 2008 article in Politico that detailed his lobbying career when he was selected as Biden’s chief of staff.

Politico reporter Kenneth Vogel wrote that Klain lobbied on behalf of the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, which was later discovered to be a front group for a roofing company called GAF Materials Corporation.

GAF Materials faced, “...huge liabilities related to asbestos-exposure lawsuits,” Vogel wrote, describing Klain’s lobbying efforts on its behalf.
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Re: hmm, the truth
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: October 20, 2014 11:25AM

Can you imagine having asbestosis and ebola.......at the same time?

Blessed are the murderous.

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Re: hmm, the truth
Posted by: dkurydfm ()
Date: October 20, 2014 01:23PM

On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed that lobbyists would have no place in his administration

There are 65 current members of the Obama administration who at one point lobbied the federal government.

But this is the Obama administration, which trumpeted its anti-lobbyist position in an ethics statement on its transition Web site. "Free the Executive Branch from Special Interest Influence," one header reads, right above "Close the Revolving Door on Former and Future Employers." It's an administration that quickly announced no lobbyists would be allowed to serve on advisory panels.

It's worth taking candidate Barack Obama at his word when he said, in a February 2008 speech, that lobbyists "won't drown out your voices anymore when I am President of the United States of America." Or in June 2007, when he said that Americans "want real reform, and they're tired of the lobbyists standing in the way."

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Re: hmm, the truth
Posted by: Dean Wormer ()
Date: October 20, 2014 01:30PM

Apparently he has a new nickname making the rounds on the Interwebs: Flounder.

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Re: hmm, the truth
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: October 20, 2014 01:37PM

Dean Wormer Wrote:
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> Apparently he has a new nickname making the rounds
> on the Interwebs: Flounder.
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"A pledge pin??? On your uniform?!?!"


LOL


idontlikebeingrightaboutshitlikethisbutiam



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Re: hmm, the truth
Posted by: tfwefifk ()
Date: October 20, 2014 01:39PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9_EiSaNw3Q

for the uninformed who don't get the flounder and pledge pin references

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