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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:50 PM Feb 2016

Lobbyists, Consultants Fret Over Bernie Sanders Victory

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’ rhetoric against the excesses of Wall Street:


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


Keep fretting you bastards.



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Lobbyists, Consultants Fret Over Bernie Sanders Victory (Original Post) SHRED Feb 2016 OP
I sincerely hope they have many, many LiberalElite Feb 2016 #1
Indeed! Mufaddal Feb 2016 #2
Visions of torches & pitchforks haunt their fretful dreams. nt 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #3
All the more reason to vote for Bernie! Art_from_Ark Feb 2016 #4
Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Pundits, Media Minions And MIC Henchmen cantbeserious Feb 2016 #5
He must be doing something right. DamnYankeeInHouston Feb 2016 #6

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
1. I sincerely hope they have many, many
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:57 PM
Feb 2016

sleepless nights and other somatic complaints. Bad karma I know but I'm not that "evolved."

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