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Related: About this forumAtlanta Mayor’s Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show
A FEW DAYS BEFORE the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a one-issue platform that ignores the plight of the single mother riding two buses to her second job.
But emails released from Reeds office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.
Anne Torres, the mayors director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The columns revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.
Johnson, Torres told us, is a capable writer, who managed Reeds first campaign. Reed provided verbal edits and feedback to Tharon, but other than that, no one from my office or the mayors office wrote this op-ed, Torres said.
But emails released from Reeds office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.
Anne Torres, the mayors director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The columns revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.
Johnson, Torres told us, is a capable writer, who managed Reeds first campaign. Reed provided verbal edits and feedback to Tharon, but other than that, no one from my office or the mayors office wrote this op-ed, Torres said.
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Atlanta Mayor’s Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
May 2016
OP
Open and honest exchange of ideas about the best way forward for the Dems?
jonestonesusa
May 2016
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wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)1. just another clinton sellout,she owns tons of em.
they're everywhere.
Nyan
(1,192 posts)2. Well. What do you expect from a party where lobbyists are super delegates?
I'm so done with this sham of a party.
I'll be out as soon as Bernie gets out of the race.
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Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)4. No pattern here folks, they will tell us yet again
God: it's John Lewis & Delores Huerta all over again. Do they really think we can't recognize their playbook?
jonestonesusa
(880 posts)5. Open and honest exchange of ideas about the best way forward for the Dems?
Just didn't happen at these key points in the campaign - manufactured articles favoring Clinton. Manufacturing consent - it's a way of life, until we change it.
gordyfl
(598 posts)6. And Somehow
they expect party unity. Good grief.