Clinton Tops List of Arms Company Donations

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U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was also a favorite of the arms producing giants during her 2006 senate campaign.
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.

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

You want it here, you got it here.

[upaloopa]

1. Only individuals contribute directly to campaigns

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The limit is $2,700

[99th_Monkey]

2. "About 18 percent comes from individual contributions" <-- Actually.

quote from the OP news source.

[Jarqui]

3. From the above

"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. "

Of course, that ignores donations to the Clinton Foundation ...

The cash donations Hillary simply has no answer for
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/31/the_cash_donations_hillary_simply_has_no_answer_for_partner/

The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that gave to the Clinton Foundation. That was a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.

American military contractors and their affiliates that donated to the Clinton Foundation — and in some cases, helped finance speaking fees to Bill Clinton — also got in on the action. Those firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of arms deals authorized by the Clinton State Department.

[leveymg]

4. Suppose you never heard of "bundling"? Guess that SuperPac is also an unfamiliar concept?

Sorry. The diversion you raise has been worn out by time and trod over by the facts. Better update that argument.

[Ferd Berfel]

10. But how much have they donated to her PAC's ?

We'll never know

[NuclearDem]

5. Democrats have three candidates. Republicans have over a dozen.

No shit the most likely candidate in a small field would be getting more than four or five separate candidates would in a larger field.

Dishonest horseshit, but par for the course.

[HerbChestnut]

7. I think the more important part about this story

Is that she's getting more contributions from the arms industry than Sanders when people on this board have repeated demagogued him for being some kind of "gun nut".

[NuclearDem]

8. Defense contractors and arms manufacturers are not the same as civilian firearm manufacturers.

Lockheed and Boeing aren't concerned with domestic gun control.

[HerbChestnut]

9. That is true.

Still no less disturbing, but you're right.

[libdem4life]

11. True. We leave firearms to the Republicans and "blast" them on homegrown terror.

But for Democrats, we prefer the really big ones...the global warfare type. The ones that make lots and lots of money for our MIC. The kind you can't buy at the local gun shop.

[HerbChestnut]

6. But guys, Sanders is a gun nut who was supported by the NRA...

[NurseJackie]

12. I hope those PAC's are able to put it to good use!

Glad to have it! Thanks so much! It will come in handy when folks want to counter the attacks of the GOP's own money-machine!

[ViseGrip]

13. Did she get a donation from Dyn Corp? Very important to know.

They were caught in the Bosnian war trafficking kids out for sex. The scandal was called DynCorp A -Go-Go.

Huff Post Business:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiri82hz-PJAhUM7yYKHc1CC5wQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fdavid-isenberg%2Fits-dj-vu-for-dyncorp-all_b_792394.html&usg=AFQjCNFlrWXZPDXQp-3Qnj_3Yd-MiPJmPw&sig2=Rowd_ZFj5_tHondy5NOxaw&bvm=bv.110151844,d.eWE
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Then they were caught using boys for sex in Afghanistan! The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys

Strange, Obama just gave them another contract overseas. WTF for?????

Now I really want to know if Hillary got a donation from them.

[Doctor_J]

14. her "defense" benefactors will make sure we stay at war.

Her insurance benefactors will make sure we don't get healthcare. Her wall street benefactors will make sure they can crash the economy again.

I don't understand why anyone would think having her in the white house would be a good idea

[DUbeornot2be]

18. Hmmmm...

Having been at DU only the last several months the feeling I get about her most ardent supporters here is there are probably ten$ of thou$and$ of reason$ they want to see her in the White House. Perhaps hundred$... A$$uming $he wins of course.

Otherwise I've never known people who claim to be democrats so determined to use separation, elitism, mockery of others, and so forth in the supposed name of caring about or doing good for the majority of the people.

These are the same old republican/corporate methods that results in the division and in the problems we as a people and as a country face today.

My guess is many of the "volunteers" will soon be quite well overcompensated by the taxpayers or the foundation for helping further expand the chasm that Bernie wants to get to work fixing.

Unfortunately for us peons, the fix is already in. If not then I really do have to wonder why Hillary is so happy with all the serious problems she's supposedly concerned about.

We suffer... she smiles.

It really is quite telling.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Do the capitalists consider them "contributions" or "business investments"?

Or, are they financing her campaign because of their love of democracy?

[bvar22]

17. Well NO WONDER she votes AGAINST the ban on Cluster Bombs...

...the Freedom Bombs that keep killing indiscriminately for YEARS after they are dropped.
A favorite way to blow that arms off of unsuspecting children.
It is a MONEY thing for Hillary!!!!
At least NOW I understand her position.

[azmom]

19. Kick

[AzDar]

20. K & R

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. Bullets and Arms promote kindness and latino grandmothers

who then promote banksters war and oil........... Champagne all around!!!!