Lobbyists, Consultants Fret Over Bernie Sanders Victory

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Bernie Sanders won an overwhelming victory in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, capturing nearly every demographic group and 60 percent of the vote. The insurgent democratic socialist from Vermont, however, was not celebrated in some quarters of Washington, D.C., as a number of lobbyists and business political consultants took to Twitter to complain.

Tony Fratto, the co-founder of Hamilton Place Strategies, a political consulting firm that has previously represented a variety of Wall Street interests including recent work to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement on behalf of large corporations, tweeted in disapproval of Sanders’s rhetoric against the excesses of Wall Street.

Alex Castellanos, a co-founder of lobbying and consulting firm Purple Strategies, and executive with National Media, a political media agency that works with Super PACs and industry groups to develop advertising, disparaged Sanders’s victory speech as an “anti-American rant”

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https://theintercept.com/2016/02/10/lobbyists-consultants-fret-over-bernie-sanders-victory/

[ladjf]

1. “anti-American rant” is code for "anti-establishment rant". nt

[onecaliberal]

2. We're coming for you wealth protecting democracy stealing MFers.

We don't give two shits about your disapproval. We disapprove of the banks stealing our money, homes and retirement illegally while no one is punished for it. We are coming to take it back.

[MuseRider]

3. They are complaining?

LOL, the "little people" are getting uppity?

There are so many things that need correcting. Still, watching these smug people get brought down to size so that they are not running things will perhaps be the most glorious victory of all.

They are so wrapped up in their power that they never figured that there was a point when the torches and pitchforks would come out. Well, they reached that point some time ago but now we have a way to reach them.

It will be fun and also scary to watch them twist.

[retrowire]

4. this is what grinds my gears

if they aren't doing anything wrong, what are they so afraid of?

because if this is just about them being afraid of change and higher taxes then they can just get over it because the rest of us have to get ours too.

years have gone by where or tax dollars have saved their asses, it's time they not only paid taxes but started at least covering some of our expenses!

[Jarqui]

5. If guys like that are whining, proof positive that Bernie's on to something good nt

[tazkcmo]

6. Tough Toe Nails, Richie Rich! n/t

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. It really sucks when the will of the People is heard, doesn't it.