Private Prison Lobbyists Are Raising Cash for Hillary Clinton

[Lorien]

As immigration and incarceration issues become central to the 2016 presidential campaign, lobbyists for two major prison companies are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton.

Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group could both see their fortunes turning if there are fewer people to lock up in the future.

Last week, Clinton and other candidates revealed a number of lobbyists who are serving as “bundlers” for their campaigns. Bundlers collect contributions on behalf of a campaign, and are often rewarded with special favors, such as access to the candidate.

More: https://theintercept.com/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

[giftedgirl77]

1. Clinton Cut Ties with the private prison industry.

Try & keep up & stop recycling really old shit.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/23/3715544/clinton-private-prisons/

[Lorien]

2. Hillary CREATED the for-profit prison industry

there's no way in hell that she "cut ties" with them. She also assured us that she would fight against the very trade bills that her emails proved that she has lobbied for. She talks out of both sides of her mouth again, and again, and again!

[giftedgirl77]

4. Meh, say what you want.

But your claim is false & outdated.

[nashville_brook]

8. wow, just wow.

[JRLeft]

10. Why won't she cut ties to Wall Street?

Or defense contractors?

[giftedgirl77]

13. So now defense contractors are evil too?

I'm retired/100% disabled military & my fiance' is employed as a linguist for a contractor I'm not feeling that issue at all.

[Matariki]

3. Shameful she EVER had them at all

It's a despicable industry and one I hope to see dismantled in the very near future.

[giftedgirl77]

5. This is true.

[jkbRN]

7. The problem with that article is in the first line,

On Friday morning, the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton announced they will no longer accept donations from federally registered lobbyists or PACs for private prison companies.

She already accepted the money, moreover, she did not donate it to a good cause, instead she used it for her campaign--this is called a bribe.

[giftedgirl77]

14. Jesus fucking Christ it's not a god damn bribe.

Stop making shit up it makes you look irrational.

[AzDar]

6. She stopped taking their money in Oct. 2015...in the nick of time to deny on the campaign trail.

[nashville_brook]

9. "evolved"

[JRLeft]

11. Clinton Tops List of Arms Company Donations This content was originally published by teleSUR at the

Hillary Clinton has received more money from arms and military service companies than any other candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign, data from Open Secrets shows. All but one of the world’s 10 biggest arms producers have contributed to Clinton’s previous campaigns, giving her — along with the top Republican receiver Ted Cruz — a significant margin over the other candidates. The numbers, collected by the Federal Election Commission and compiled by Open Secrets, also reveal that Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders make the list of top 20 senators and top six presidential candidates to receive money from arms and defense companies.


Most of the funding is channeled through Political Action Committees, which have no limits to how much they donate. About 18 percent comes from individual contributions, totaling almost US$10 million between all of the companies. The biggest donors — Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing — devote about a third of their funds to Democrat candidates. In the last presidential elections, Barack Obama won more funding than his contender John McCain, though McCain is the top-earning senator this year.

Read more at the link: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Clinton-Tops-List-of-Arms-Company-Donations-20151214-0002.html

[gyroscope]

12. Why are black people voting for her again?

she wants to put more of them in prison and on death row.

[giftedgirl77]

15. Bc we're dumb & don't know what's good for us.

You obviously didn't get the memo.

[gyroscope]

16. The greatest rise of the black prison population in US history

occurred under the Clinton administration, yet black people love them.

They have pulled off quite a con job on the black community.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. No doubt, she will frown disapprovingly and return it. Like she did with Goldman Sachs.

And, all the rest of the corporate investors.