2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFEC Report 2/5/2016 Just thru December, Wall St. Donated $21.4 mill to Hillary's campaign
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[blockquotefilings from the Federal Election Commission, reported Thursday on the full tally of the money her campaign is receiving from Wall street, a sign of her deep and lasting relationships with banking and investment titans
Through the end of December, donors at hedge funds, banks, insurance companies and other financial-services firms had given at least $21.4 million to support Clintons 2016 presidential run more than one of every 10 dollars of the $157.8 million contributed to back her bid, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings by The Washington Post.
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In all, donors from Wall Street and other financial-services firms have given $44.1 million to support Hillary Clintons campaigns and allied super PACs....
There is also Hillary's personal profiteering:
On top of the funding her campaign, she personally earned more than $3.7 million for delivering paid speeches to banks and other financial-services firms since leaving the State Department in 2013, personal financial disclosures show, the Post reports.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/at_town_hall_and_in_campaign_filings_clintons_cozy_20160204
More info here on more of her ties:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillary-clinton-simply-cant-stand-wall-st-it-built-her-political-career-and-brought
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)People like those poor corporations.
Afterall, corporations ARE people too!
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ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)They expect absolutely nothing in return
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)that she got most of her money from small donations? I guess that Wall St. has an awful lot of them, or maybe Clinton was not telling the truth. You think? NAH! The Queen never lies to her subjects.