Democracy Now!: Clinton Campaign's Corporate & GOP Ties

Democracy Now! on a new expose in The Nation magazine finds that while Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is publicly trying to win support of unions in her presidential campaign, behind the scenes she is being advised by a team of strategists closely affiliated with unionbusters, GOP operatives and conservative media. We speak with the reporter, Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation magazine who broke the story.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1412212

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[zekretzpy]

This reporter Ari Berman is one of the "VULCANS" within society!

[ihouvanje]

Thank you for posting. The truth is so hard to find.

[bklynsam]

Hillary Clinton will tell you what you want to hear. Her 'position' depends on who she's talking to at the time, and whatever will be politically useful to Hillary Clinton alone. If she is the Democratic nominee, it will be the only way the Dems will lose the White House in '09.

[antibaptist]

i wasn't talking to you, swarm.

[swarminD]

what about him?

[Danielegrl]

Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime

bill that removed

pell grants for prisoners

On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final

version of the

crime

bill into law.

$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more

prisons

[Danielegrl]

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT TOP

AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard

Hillary Rodham

Clinton.

She used to be the head of the board of the Children's

Defense Fund, of

the organization that you founded

[Danielegrl]

A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who's born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities.

[Danielegrl]

Well, the poor are suffering, the gap

between rich and

poor widening. We have what I consider one of -- a

growing national

catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison

pipeline.

[Danielegrl]

And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we've got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming.