By Their Friends Ye Shall Know Them.
I'm sure that's in the Bible somewhere.
It should come as no surprise that Hillary Clinton would turn to the
folks she knows best, to put together her various teams and to fill
key jobs. Isn't that how we all do it? We turn to those we know and
trust to help us work through difficult tasks. When our generator
acts up we call Russ. He knows that generator inside and out. I
wouldn't call some total unknown when Russ is around. When the truck
acts up we call Rudy. After over 300 thousand miles, Rudy knows how
to tickle a few more miles out of the tired old motor. When I worked
for the Washington State Department of Services for the Blind, and I
had positions to fill, I first looked among my closest associates, and
then broadened out to search among people recommended to me by trusted
associates. That's how it's done.
So of course Hillary Clinton is going to go to those folks she knows
and trusts. And next she will search among folks recommended to her
by these trusted associates. All normal behavior.
So when the word came out that Clinton had selected Ken Salazar to
head up her transition team, it should have been totally expected.
What troubles me most regarding this announcement is not who Clinton
named, but that it disturbed people who had actually bought into her,
"shift to the Left" propaganda. When do we wake up and understand
that the use of language is a central tool of any successful
politician. Speaking all things to all people is not an easy thing to
do.
And one other thought. Our brain needs exercise in order to grow.
What we put into it will determine how strong it becomes. My stomach
loves sugar and chocolate. It constantly grows large and flabby if I
don't take care to put decent food into it.
We have been "dumbed down" through our schools and our mass media,
until our brain can handle nothing more than snippets of information,
before being distracted. We have had our brain trained to accept
without much question, the rules and laws set down by our Ruling
Class.
Well, if your brain is still listening, and that is doubtful, I'll
tell it that Hillary Clinton will be our next president, and she will
"Walk Back" her Left leanings, telling us that the timing is not
right, or the progressive plans are not in the best interest of our
National Security. When this happens, and it's going to happen, just
remember to check out Clinton's friends. That will tell your brain
just which American's Security is at stake.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/16/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> Clinton Transition Team Headed by Anti-Climate 'Powerbroker'
> Published on
> Tuesday, August 16, 2016
> by
> Common Dreams
> Clinton Transition Team Headed by Anti-Climate 'Powerbroker'
> Ken Salazar has previously claimed "there's not a single case where
> hydraulic fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone"
> by
> Nadia Prupis, staff writer
>
> Salazar has previously promoted the TPP, fracking, and the Keystone XL
> pipeline. (Photo: Casa de América/flickr/cc)
> Hillary Clinton has named her transition team should she be elected in
> November, and the roster—as many feared—is a who's-who of establishment
> figures, including former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has a
> maligned
> track record on climate.
> The team will also include former national security adviser Tom Donilon,
> former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, president of the Center for
> American
> Progress (CAP) Neera Tanden, and director of Harvard University's Institute
> of Politics Maggie Williams. Two of the campaign's policy advisers, Ed
> Meier
> and Ann O'Leary, will also serve as co-executive directors.
> Salazar, whose career includes positions both in government and corporate
> Washington, D.C. firms, has previously pushed for projects that are reviled
> among environmental activists, such as fracking, the Trans Pacific
> Partnership (TPP), and the Keystone XL pipeline.
> Just a year ago, Clinton and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) penned an op-ed
> for
> the Huffington Post decrying the cyclical nature of Capitol Hill
> institutions that enable lawmakers and lobbyists to jump in and out of the
> private and public sectors.
> "[I]ncreasingly, Americans' trust in government is eroding. And a big
> reason
> for that is the so-called revolving door between government and the private
> sector," they wrote.
> But as David Sirota noted Tuesday at International Business Times, putting
> Salazar in charge of Clinton's transition team only empowers more of the
> same:
> Salazar served as Colorado's Attorney General, U.S. Senator and Interior
> Secretary before traveling through that revolving door and taking a job in
> 2013 as a partner at WilmerHale—a law and lobbying colossus that has been
> called one of the most influential forces in Washington. Salazar's
> biography
> says that he "provides legal, strategic and policy advice to national and
> international clients, particularly on matters at the intersection of law,
> business and public policy." He is one of 39 former public officials now
> working at WilmerHale, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
> Politics. The firm has recently been the subject of a ProPublica
> investigation that showed one of its partners gave a personal loan to Gene
> Sperling, then President Obama's economic adviser, as the firm represented
> major financial institutions.
> Salazar is not a registered lobbyist but he appears to fit the description
> of the kind of powerbroker that Clinton has criticized.
>
> The former interior secretary has also previously said, "The TPP is a
> strong
> trade deal that will level the playing field for workers to help
> middle-class families get ahead. It is also the greenest trade deal ever,"
> and has claimed that "there's not a single case where hydraulic fracking
> has
> created an environmental problem for anyone."
> According to Politico, Salazar is also opposing an anti-fracking ballot
> measure in his home state of Colorado.
> The team was announced just days after 15 progressive groups published an
> open letter calling on Clinton to appoint personnel that would prove her
> commitment to issues such as ending economic inequality and stopping the
> TPP.
> "Historically, too many Wall Street executives and corporate insiders have
> traveled through the revolving door between private industry and
> government," the letter stated. "The result of this practice is that the
> interests of elites are over-represented in Washington."
> The signatories included advocacy groups Public Citizen, RootsAction, and
> MoveOn.org. They urged Clinton to "publicly state that, should you win the
> presidency, you will appoint personnel from backgrounds in public interest
> advocacy, academia, and public service to influential positions within your
> administration, rather than merely drawing from the usual set of corporate
> insiders."
> "Personnel is policy," they wrote.
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
> License
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> Clinton Transition Team Headed by Anti-Climate 'Powerbroker'
> Published on
> Tuesday, August 16, 2016
> by
> Common Dreams
> Clinton Transition Team Headed by Anti-Climate 'Powerbroker'
> Ken Salazar has previously claimed "there's not a single case where
> hydraulic fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone"
> by
> Nadia Prupis, staff writer
> • 64 Comments
> •
> • Salazar has previously promoted the TPP, fracking, and the Keystone
> XL pipeline. (Photo: Casa de América/flickr/cc)
> • Hillary Clinton has named her transition team should she be elected
> in November, and the roster—as many feared—is a who's-who of establishment
> figures, including former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has a
> maligned
> track record on climate.
> • The team will also include former national security adviser Tom
> Donilon, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, president of the Center
> for
> American Progress (CAP) Neera Tanden, and director of Harvard University's
> Institute of Politics Maggie Williams. Two of the campaign's policy
> advisers, Ed Meier and Ann O'Leary, will also serve as co-executive
> directors.
> • Salazar, whose career includes positions both in government and
> corporate Washington, D.C. firms, has previously pushed for projects that
> are reviled among environmental activists, such as fracking, the Trans
> Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Keystone XL pipeline.
> • Just a year ago, Clinton and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) penned an
> op-ed for the Huffington Post decrying the cyclical nature of Capitol Hill
> institutions that enable lawmakers and lobbyists to jump in and out of the
> private and public sectors.
> "[I]ncreasingly, Americans' trust in government is eroding. And a big
> reason
> for that is the so-called revolving door between government and the private
> sector," they wrote.
> But as David Sirota noted Tuesday at International Business Times, putting
> Salazar in charge of Clinton's transition team only empowers more of the
> same:
> Salazar served as Colorado's Attorney General, U.S. Senator and Interior
> Secretary before traveling through that revolving door and taking a job in
> 2013 as a partner at WilmerHale—a law and lobbying colossus that has been
> called one of the most influential forces in Washington. Salazar's
> biography
> says that he "provides legal, strategic and policy advice to national and
> international clients, particularly on matters at the intersection of law,
> business and public policy." He is one of 39 former public officials now
> working at WilmerHale, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
> Politics. The firm has recently been the subject of a ProPublica
> investigation that showed one of its partners gave a personal loan to Gene
> Sperling, then President Obama's economic adviser, as the firm represented
> major financial institutions.
> Salazar is not a registered lobbyist but he appears to fit the description
> of the kind of powerbroker that Clinton has criticized.
> http://commondreams.org/crossroadshttp://commondreams.org/crossroads
> The former interior secretary has also previously said, "The TPP is a
> strong
> trade deal that will level the playing field for workers to help
> middle-class families get ahead. It is also the greenest trade deal ever,"
> and has claimed that "there's not a single case where hydraulic fracking
> has
> created an environmental problem for anyone."
> According to Politico, Salazar is also opposing an anti-fracking ballot
> measure in his home state of Colorado.
> The team was announced just days after 15 progressive groups published an
> open letter calling on Clinton to appoint personnel that would prove her
> commitment to issues such as ending economic inequality and stopping the
> TPP.
> "Historically, too many Wall Street executives and corporate insiders have
> traveled through the revolving door between private industry and
> government," the letter stated. "The result of this practice is that the
> interests of elites are over-represented in Washington."
> The signatories included advocacy groups Public Citizen, RootsAction, and
> MoveOn.org. They urged Clinton to "publicly state that, should you win the
> presidency, you will appoint personnel from backgrounds in public interest
> advocacy, academia, and public service to influential positions within your
> administration, rather than merely drawing from the usual set of corporate
> insiders."
> "Personnel is policy," they wrote.
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
> License
>
>
>
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