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>Bernie’s goal is to ban private prisons. Hillary has a similar goal, but takes money from prison lobbyists. Does this make sense to you? Well, considering tha
by faet 10y ago
>Bernie’s goal is to ban private prisons. Hillary has a similar goal, but takes money from prison lobbyists. Does this make sense to you?
Well, considering that private prisons are banned in the state of NY but not VT. Yes.
Also, the 'private prison donations' is very loosely connected.
They were bundlers, who worked for a lobbying firm, a firm that got 0.35% of it's money from private prisons. But, that doesn't matter, as they money they raised came from people outside of the lobbying firm and outside of the private prison industry. As that is what bundlers do. If he called me up, and I sent in a check, how is that "private prison money"? It's not, it'd be tied to my industry/job instead. source: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000032306&year=2015 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000032306&...
The only actual money she got from an actual PP lobbyist, was given to a charity, and it totaled something like $8,600.
This is similar to how she was connected to the 'oil and gas' lobbyists. People would say Ben Klein, a bundler, represented "oxbow" an oil company, therefor hillary gets money from oil. What they don't tell you is his firm only did 60k worth of business with oxbow (<0.8% of their revenue). But their #2 business was Brookfield Power, aka Brookfield Renewable Energy Parters. Who do Hydro. Yet, Mr Klein, is an "oil lobbyist". Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000034396&year=2015 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000034396&...