Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Asked If an Intern Could Get Paid by Her College

[tecelote]

Without the stipend counting as a donation to the campaign

Clinton campaign lawyers argue that the student should be permitted to accept the $3,000 stipend and the college credit without either being designated as in-kind contributions to the campaign because the university “did not condition the availability of the stipend upon the political nature of the internship.”

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Bernie Paying Interns MORE Than His Own Proposals for Raising the Minimum Wage to $15! Go Bernie!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251791029

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More testament to Bernie's standing by his long held beliefs.

[Fumesucker]

1. I wonder what the billing was for the lawyer(s) arguing this?

[fasttense]

2. Really? Hillary can't afford a paid intership?

Lets screw the little guy again. Unpaid internships are a scam.

[tecelote]

3. How very Republican of her.

[Bubzer]

15. Its a very corporatist move. Corporations have been abusing interns heavily in recent years.

[Fumesucker]

4. Unpaid internships are a way of weeding out the "wrong" people

People whose families cannot afford to support them while they work for free.

Definitely a lower class of human being.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. It's to build character. Seeing how Hillary was poor once for a day or two until her book advance

cleared, she understands how being poor can build character.

[Ikonoklast]

7. Hillary and Bill were down to their last few millions. I was almost in a panic for them.

Then I remembered I have nothing in common with multi-millionaires who lobby against my best interests while lining their pockets.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

20. You poor, poor soul.

Common stumps like us cannot begin to understand or feel on the level of those we have elected to bleed us.

We would at the very least have to serve them cocktails at a posh function, if we were lucky enough, and breathe the air that they exhaled in order to share their greatness.

[Android3.14]

6. Good Ol' Hillary, looking out for the little guy...

Not.

[left lowrider]

8. Labor practices learned while she was on the board of Walmart

Externalize those costs!

[UglyGreed]

9. +1

[tecelote]

10. Good point!

Still looking out for her base - the 1% she belongs to.

[Bubzer]

16. Exactly right.

[AzDar]

11. Repulsive.

[UglyGreed]

12. It's the way

Hillary and her staff role.......

[blackspade]

13. My company always pays our college interns.

It's a dick move not to.


On edit: Why is the Clinton campaign making a big deal out of this question?

[Hepburn]

14. Because, IMO, it makes Hillary look less than perfect. n/t

[blackspade]

17. Nobody is perfect...much less politicians.

This just seems strange that her campaign would make a big deal out of this.
I'm also unclear as to why there are 'donation' issues involved.
I guess I could better understand if there was source for this info.

[stillwaiting]

18. One campaign is not like the other. At all. nt

[olddots]

19. forever 21

What Hillary voters want to be .

[d_legendary1]

21. Didn't she talk about paying interns in corporations

while not paying the interns that work in the Clinton Foundation? There's a word for that...