This should be worth a local ping!
Your personal insights are very revealing. I think the fat cats like Powell cultivate their leftist reputation in part at least to pandering to their customers. Their prime motivation is greed. "Hey, whatever sells!" is their creed and I think they believe Sheehan is a hot commodity right now.
It's sort of their way in deflecting. "How greedy could we really be if we support the left?"
Why don't you go, and politely ask this moronic gasbag when she first became a traitor.