BREAKING: HILLARY POSTPONES FUNDRAISER WITH BAIN CAPITAL

[Halliburton]

I wonder if Romney will write her a check? She desperately needs it after spending 90% of her budget in Iowa.

NEW YORK -- Hillary Clinton has postponed another fundraiser with financial services executives amid heavy criticism from rival Bernie Sanders that she is too close to Wall Street.

Clinton will no longer attend an event in Boston scheduled for Friday that was to be hosted by Jonathan Lavine, managing director of Bain Capital affiliate Sankaty Advisors, sources close to the matter said.

The event has not been canceled but will now be held sometime after the New Hampshire primary, which takes place Feb. 9. It is the second such postponement in the last two weeks. The Clinton campaign last week said a New York City event that was set for Thursday with executives from investment management firm BlackRock would now be held Feb. 16th.

The postponements come after Vermont senator Sanders ripped Clinton last week for leaving Iowa to attend a fundraiser in Philadelphia with financial services executives that featured a live performance with Bon Jovi.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-postpones-fundraiser-financial-services-218708#ixzz3zAA1rv16

[global1]

1. Let's Con The New Hampshire Voters First And Have Them ....

vote for me. I can meet with these financial guys afterwards. No harm - no foul.

[FreakinDJ]

5. ^^^ Thread Winner ^^^

[global1]

8. Hillary Is The Political Bernie Madoff....nt

[Unknown Beatle]

133. Of all the signature line gifs,

I like yours the best. Happy little dancing banana.

[nc4bo]

16. Yep. Too many eyes watching her whisk away to Texas

For the fundraiser before Iowa.

Even SHE had to realize how sleazy that looked.

[dixiegrrrrl]

121. She is more comfortable in the shadows....

like this pic of her and the head of Goldman Sachs.....



found in this thread today:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511131768

[questionseverything]

34. is this the onion?

n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

76. exactly, Mitt Romney's company - what does that say (and loudly...)

nothing good, and unfortunately not ironically funny like The Onion

[Ikonoklast]

111. Does Hillary have more in common with Mitt, or you?

I already know the answer.

[840high]

54. .+10

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

65. lol... sounds like Hillary's getting her money's worth from all those hundreds of paid advisors telling her what to think.

Can you imagine Bernie even contemplating for a nano-second holding such a fund raiser?

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[sabrina 1]

92. Lol, I don't know which would be worse, for her to go do what she does, collect some more

Corporate money, or insult the intelligence of the average voter, hoping they won't notice if she just postpones the money people until after she cons them, she thinks. They have such a low opinion of the American people, it's downright insulting. Time to show them how WRONG they are.

[Enthusiast]

122. Precisely.

[Wilms]

2. Shell game.

Sneak.

[saltpoint]

3. Bain. A Bain affiliate. Romney's

home turf for much of what defined his corporate profile.

Bain. Bane.

[scscholar]

6. Rmoney is a manlike object

[saltpoint]

9. Yes. He looks eerily human, but

of course we know better.

He tries to fool us by eating pancakes.

[PatrickforO]

33. Yes, anyone who puts his dog on the roof of the car and then hits

the highway for thousands of miles is a little less than human, I think. And his company, Bain Capital is certainly monstrous. Now, here's Clinton, going to the monsters, hand out for donations.

I'm thinking the very fact she was going to do this is a big negative, at least for me. I don't care how powerful the Clinton machine is - we've all got one vote and if we SHOW UP at the polls, the right person will be the Democratic nominee. And it WON'T be Clinton.

[saltpoint]

36. Agree on all points, and especially about

the dog.

I like dogs. And I like Bernie Sanders.

I don't like Republicans.

[PatrickforO]

45. Ah, you're easy to please, saltpoint.

What about cats?

[saltpoint]

47. LOL. I would love to see Mitt Romney

tie a cat down on his car roof.

Say, a full-grown mountain lion.

[Ed Suspicious]

39. What's it called when a robot looks too human for comfort?

[saltpoint]

46. : ) Don't know. But we need to find out.

Romney's still out there, milling around, secretly hoping for chaos at the Cleveland convention, chaos the likes of which the GOP has never seen, and requiring a white knight candidate to ride in and become the party's nominee.

I'm guessing he sees himself as that candidate.

[Ed Suspicious]

52. Google brought me to the Uncanny Valley. This has Mittens written all over it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

"The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of aesthetics which holds that when features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural beings, it causes a response of revulsion among some observers. The "valley" refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of beings as subjects move toward a healthy, natural likeness described in a function of a subject's aesthetic acceptability. Examples can be found in the fields of robotics[2] and 3D computer animation,[3][4] among others."

[saltpoint]

61. That is a wonderful find. Very nice field

work, E. S.

And probably worth its own original post as a kind of tribute to the horror of Romney's campaign.

[blackspade]

81. +1

nice find.

[JRLeft]

4. Hillary supporters say she isn't bought and paid for if she's not,

she attend the fundraiser.

[Paulie]

10. They are not cancelled

They are delayed until after the NH primary.

[JRLeft]

17. I know she should go now, if you're not corrupt, there's no need to

change anything.

[SusanCalvin]

20. Uh, exactly. Hoping that no one notices... nt

[saltpoint]

15. Agree. If Hillary is a true reformer,

why did all the corporate entities align against Sanders in the days prior to the Iowa caucus?

If she were a reformer, a real one, Wall Street would know it and they wouldn't be shy about trying to stop her. It was Sanders on whom they aimed their ire and fire.

That demarcation is very telling.

[scottie55]

48. Only For People Who Are Not Blind

Sanders Supporters.

[saltpoint]

57. I'm sure Senator Sanders welcomes any and

all supporters, blind or sighted, freckled or plain-skinned, baseball aficionados, novelists, jockeys, bull-jumpers, boat captains, johnnycake bakers, jugglers, jam tasters, jurists, Janis Joplin fans, and the June Taylor dancers.

Pretty sure all are welcome at his appearances. He speaks with conviction about issues to which all of us should be giving full consideration.

[jonestonesusa]

90. So let's see, in your world

investment firms pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees to politicians who are going to pass rigorous regulations in the public interest.

Whatever you are smokin, pass it over!!

[jonestonesusa]

88. Don't state the obvious!

It's too hard to spin!!!

[zentrum]

75. I think it was

…..Bain that postponed it. Not HRC. They aren't sure she's worth the price of buying her, after the results in Iowa, and want to wait until they see how NH goes.

They see what's blowing in the wind.

[AtomicKitten]

7. k/r

[brentspeak]

11. "Psst. Wait until after the election. Just play along for the moment." n/t

[jfern]

12. Hillary is too flip flopity for Bain compared to relative straight shooter Romney

[PatrickforO]

43. She is flip floppety because she has to fool the base into thinking

she actually cares about us. Once elected we'll see her true color - which is green for money, not red, white and blue.

[Maedhros]

134. What's sad is that so many WANT to be fooled...[n/t]

[arcane1]

13. "will now be held sometime after the New Hampshire primary". She really thinks we are that stupid.

Sadly, too many are

[TwilightGardener]

14. Welp...you know...that might look bad.

[studyshare]

18. No Hillary Fan will be Reading this post -- Count on it! nt

[FreakinDJ]

19. Should be reposted every hour for the next 2 days

[Major Nikon]

21. No worries, we have been assured HRC is not owned by anyone

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. The BAIN of her life!

this Bain?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/bain-capital-lawsuit-complaint_n_1897234.html

[Roland99]

23. She's so damned transparent. Whatever way the political winds blow, that's her stance that day.

[Loudestlib]

24. .

Hillary Romney Clinton

[Fuddnik]

25. Bain Capital. I love it.

Shows her true colors.

Next we need a hidden cell phone video of her bashing that low life 48%.

[Purveyor]

26. Thanks for posting. k&r

[AzDar]

27. Shady.

[Kelvin Mace]

28. Bain Fucking Capital?

She was going to take money from Mitten's gang??!!!

How bloody obvious can she be?

[ErisDiscordia]

30. Money is fungible

and so are bought politicians.

[cali]

127. Not as bad as criminal Blackstone

Hillary Clinton is traveling the country, promising to get tough on corporate wrongdoers and “shadow banks.” But as she promises to crack down on investment firms that offer banking services outside the purview of traditional financial regulations, her presidential campaign is vacuuming in cash from executives at a Wall Street firm known as one of the country’s biggest shadow banks — one recently fined by federal regulators for allegedly ripping off its clients.

Last week, the president of Blackstone Group, Tony James, hosted a fundraiser for Clinton. The cash flowed to the Clinton campaign just two months after the private-equity giant settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges that it used so-called monitoring fees to enrich the firm at the expense of investors. Clinton accepted the money from executives at the sanctioned firm even as she has criticized the Obama administration for not punishing the perpetrators of financial crime more strenuously.

Among the investors in the Blackstone funds harmed by the scheme were major public pension systems in California, Florida and New Jersey, which hold the retirement savings of teachers, police officers, firefighters and other government workers. In all, municipal and state pension systems have committed at least $9.7 billion worth of investments in the three Blackstone funds the SEC says were hit, according to the research firm Preqin. (A top Blackstone executive said in 2010 that public employees enjoyed retirement benefits that are “too generous.”) Clinton has been endorsed by a number of major unions that represent public employees who rely on public pension systems for their retirement.

Spokespeople for Clinton and Blackstone did not respond to International Business Times questions about its executives’ support for Clinton or the SEC case.

Clinton has ties to some of the key players in the Blackstone entities targeted by the SEC. One of the specific Blackstone investment funds involved in the scheme, SEC documents say, was run by executives James and Laurence Tosi. Just two weeks after the SEC settlement, James — a high-profile defender of shadow banking — touted his support for Clinton.

<Snip>

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-denounces-corporate-crime-while-accepting-cash-blackstone-firm

[jalan48]

29. This is sickening. A Democrat running for President taking money from a group like this?

WTF is wrong with Hillary?

[AlbertCat]

69. WTF is wrong with Hillary?

Ego?

[jalan48]

71. Maybe so-or incredible lack of ethics.

[Unknown Beatle]

143. No, greed is what's wrong with Hillary.

Everyone knows she is a lying, egotistical person. But not everyone knows she's greedy to boot.

[uponit7771]

31. Typical Sanders camp half truth, this is all they got.. super Tuesday will have these people

.... weeping and gnashing and I dont think I want to be around here

It was not by Bain ... there was a person who is from a Bain Capital "affiliated" that was supposed to host ...

Affliate could mean anything...

Either way...

The "she's for the banks" isn't working... never did

[Fearless]

44. Would you like a straw to grasp at??

[FreakinDJ]

53. They drew the short staw on that one

[uponit7771]

112. Typical ad hom condescension to facts, not surprising

[Fearless]

141. No facts were presented. Moot point.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

58. Directly from the Bain website --

"Sankaty Advisors, the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, LP, is one of the nation's leading managers of high-yield corporate credit obligations..."

Right there. On the front page

http://www.baincapital.com/

Yeah, it's an arm of Bain.

[uponit7771]

113. Changes nothing, "affiliate" COULD be used losely in this context... bad choice of company for HRC..

... either way but doesn't advance the silly meme from Sanders mouth that they'll have undue influence over her

[hueymahl]

116. Wrong and misleading post

"Affiliate" in this context has a specific meaning. These are regulated entities and cannot make (well, are not supposed to make) misleading public statements about their organization pursuant to federal law and SEC regulations. "Affiliate" in this context is a legally defined term that means, essentially, controlled by or under common control with, Bain Capital.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/230.405

[left on green only]

63. Smells Like A Plausable Explanation.......

..........oh wait! I forgot to turn on the fan in the bathroom.

[Fuddnik]

66. I'm sure he's the mail room clerk.

[jonestonesusa]

96. Being for the banks gives her fat pockets.

Speaking opportunities for six figures, with discussion topics you and I don't get to hear about! So, Clinton's relationship with big banks works for someone. Just not for the 99%!

[uponit7771]

114. 1/25th of her yearly Salary doesn't give them crap... that's peanuts relative to what she makes and

... is a really silly position that HRC isn't coming back on with gusto yet.

Would SANDERS take 1/25th of his yearly salary for undue influence?

It's silly

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

32. It's funny that she may now attract more unwanted bad press by postponing it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

40. That's what I thought!

[reformist2]

55. She was damned if she didn't postpone it, too. She's an idiot for even agreeing to speak to them.

[Ed Suspicious]

35. K&R

[Ed Suspicious]

37. She is trying to thread a needle that has no eye.

[panader0]

89. I like that expression. I may have to recycle it.

[modestybl]

38. Are. You. F***ing Kidding Me?

Bain Capitol???

Is she seeking Romney's endorsement???

[840high]

64. Nah - just his $$$$$

[modestybl]

70. haha... and she's gonna need that...

... Bernie ain't going anywhere... and the $$$ flows in...

[retrowire]

41. lol

I will rein in Wall St! Cut it out guys!

.....Can you guys cut me a c-note, that would be grand.

[PyaarRevolution]

42. Why this makes Hillary look bad.

Who here has seen "Pretty Woman"? Remember what Richard Gere's character did? Yeah that's pretty much what Mitt did at Bain unlike Richard Gere's character at the end of that who realized he was a shithead for doing what he did.
Understand that Hillary was willing to take money from SCUM like that.

[scottie55]

51. Taking Money From The Same Scumbags That Gave To Bush

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/04/hillary-clinton-s-mega-donors-are-also-funding-jeb-bush.html

[NJCher]

87. Was and is going to take it

Anyone read the last 2lines of this article? Unbelievable.

The woman is tone deaf.

Cher

[WillyT]

49. LOL !!!

[billhicks76]

50. Blind To Hatred Of Hillary

So many people actually hate and detest her that are decent democrats. How could she possibly win a general election. I know Murdoch likes her and defense industry execs do but that ain't gonna help. Bain? Wow. She becomes more indefensible with every day.

[FreakinDJ]

72. She becomes more indefensible with every day.

They'll still try to defend her

[billhicks76]

74. Kinda Reminds Me Of Bush Supporters

Makes sense since The Bushes and Clintons are allies joined at the hip, brain and heart.

[FreakinDJ]

77. I never thought of that but your absolutely right

[Fuddnik]

56. "When the going gets stoopid, the stoopid turn pro"

Dr. Hunter S Thompson

[reformist2]

59. People keep telling me Hillary is so smart, but I'm beginning to wonder...

OK, maybe she's intelligent, but she sure doesn't have good political sense, that's for sure.

[hoosierlib]

60. K&R

Spot on...

[studyshare]

62. K&R

[mountain grammy]

67. SHE'S TOO CLOSE TO WALL STREET!!!

Can you hear me now?

[MisterP]

68. she's no Bain's bane

[zentrum]

73. Let's not assume she

…cancelled, um, postponed it, even if that's the cover story. It looks more to me that Bain wants to wait until after the NH primary to see if it's worth throwing money at her. Bain, not HRC, postponed it.

What's the use of owning a candidate that they fear can't win? They'll just give more money to Rubio. Any loss to Hillary from big donors is a big boost to Rubio at this point.

[SoapBox]

78. OMG! She was going to go to ANOTHER party with the Investment Industry?!?

Disgusting!

OMG...unbelievable...she never stops sucking up to these creeps for MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.

[SammyWinstonJack]

128. Poor Hillary, this isn't as easy as she thought it would be.

[blackspade]

79. So, just postponed....until after NH

[SixString]

80. K&R.

[Vote2016]

82. rec 1000!

[rocktivity]

83. Romney's Bain Capital???

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rocktivity

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

131. Don't forget, though, that plenty of Americans who watched the Sopranos

thought Tony was a hero.

[turbinetree]

84. This is really disgusting.............................

Honk--------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016


It is about getting a Progressive President, U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, State and Local Legislatures

Democracy begins with you-------------------tag your it

[studyshare]

85. HONK!

[jonestonesusa]

86. One less opportunity for collusion with Wall Street.

Mark one score for the 99%!!

[LittleGirl]

91. Love this

that is just so typical!

[merrily]

93. Not at all the bane of Bain.

[Art_from_Ark]

94. Gee-- all that money she spent in Iowa

and all she got was a lousy tie

[OnyxCollie]

95. Bain Capital, the private equity management group founded by Mitt Romney,

is the company that owns IHeartRadio, formerly Clear Channel Communications, that went hog wild after Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Deregulation Act and bought up all the radio stations across the US, leading to the vast right-wing media monopoly we have today.

Well, whaddya know about that. Huh.

[think]

103. +1 Important facts to remember. Thanks for posting /nt

[Enthusiast]

124. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

[MelissaB]

130. Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that.

[malthaussen]

97. Money has no provenance. n/t

[Botany]

98. Time for JEB ... Just elect Bernie

For the past 36 years except for 2012 a Clinton or a Bush has been involved
in some way in the Presidential election.

[mhatrw]

145. Jeb! nt

[dpatbrown]

99. Gee,

I wonder why.

[Geronimoe]

100. Bain Capital is far left of Hillary

Romney is a socialist who passed Romney Care.

[Gene Debs]

101. She may postpone or cancel the fundraiser, but don't think she won't still get the checks.

[earthside]

102. Zero Hillarians on this thread.

Because this is just flat-out indefensible.

Hillary Clinton is the 'Democrat' running for the presidential nomination who is with the Repuglicans on who pays the campaign bills.

On the other hand, Sen. Sanders is the real deal.

Democracy of the Billionaires
The most expensive election ever is a billionaire's playground. Unless you're Bernie Sanders.
By Nomi Prins
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/democracy-billionaires

[FlatBaroque]

107. Everyone is at the meme workshop. Bernie's a racist ya'know

[think]

104. K&R.

[Betty Karlson]

105. Once again, she only - and reluctantly - does the right thing after

EVERY attempt at refusal and prevarication has been exhausted. She is a follower, not a leader.

[KPN]

106. This is exactly why ...

I don't think I will be able to vote for Hillary if she does win the nomination. I am sick and tired of disingenuous politicians putting me in a position of being disingenuous with my vote.

At 65, I am finally beginning to realize and accept that things may actually have to get worse before they can get better. Principles ARE important. They are what make us who we are. As much as I hate to say it, SCOTUS and ACA be damned -- SCOTUS is already against me, and the ACA hasn't done the job. The aphorism "it's always darkest just before the dawn" rings more true now than ever.

[UglyGreed]

108. Funny I heard

on MSNBC yesterday that she canceled so she could campaign in NH but they did not add the fact that it was Bain Capital...........imagine that!!!!! They also implied Bernie was rolling in dough and he does not have to toil and struggle for cash since we the people just send it to him.

[mwooldri]

109. So Hillary is taking Rmoney's cash?

Mitt Romney for VP? On Hillary's ticket?

[Helen Borg]

110. Hahah! Very subtle!

[Fast Walker 52]

115. LOL-- she must be feeling the Bern...

[AllyCat]

117. Gosh, she has a long list of financial supporters.

But it is all in for the people now that this one isn't supporting her, right? She's for us now?

[raouldukelives]

118. Wall St must win. Every dollar in it is a dollar against change.

And they will use them to make sure they stay dug in like a tick against progress.

Attacks on our safety nets or addressing homelessness, climate change, crumbling infrastructures and institutional racism. Just a few issues nobody with a buck in it can claim they sincerely stand in opposition of.

[dinkytron]

119. I bet is was hard to pass up. I am proud of her and happy for her supporters.

[harun]

120. The best democracy money can buy

[Blue Owl]

123. Get a Bain Morans

n/t

[hifiguy]

125. Yet there are those who would have us believe

that these people don't own her lock, stock and barrel. Render unto me a fucking break.

[Enthusiast]

126. This can be explained away to the satisfaction of many.

[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

[fredamae]

129. Dear Lord, the Dem Party has

fallen from grace since the early 1990's....

[Vinca]

132. Amazing . . . I thought that was going to be a piece from "The Onion."

[warrprayer]

135. Great catch

K&R

[NorthCarolina]

136. Maybe she can sneak it in between primaries?

eom

[Warren DeMontague]

137. Sexism! Pragmatism! Berniebros!

don't look over here, um.... hey, look, it's Kim Kardashian!

[Botany]

138. Hillary Clinton; "I'm a Progressive Who Gets Things Done."

[DesMoinesDem]

139. Hopefully she won't have to postpone her Martin Shkreli fundraiser.

[Don Draper]

140. Congratulations Hillary supporters!

You must be really proud of your candidate!

[Plucketeer]

142. What???

Who knew that the folks outside of Wall St. could do the math? DOH!

[Warren DeMontague]

144. LOOK OVER THERE---- IT'S A SANDERS SUPPORTER SAYING SOMETHING MEAN ON FACEBOOK!

QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!