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Hillary Clinton: The fat cats’ favorite candidate
New York Post ^ | October 25, 2015 | 9:45pm | Editorial Board

Posted on 10/25/2015 10:13:07 PM PDT by TBP

Fire-breathing scourge of Wall Street on the campaign trail — and reliable friend of Wall Street in the boardroom. That’s Hillary Clinton — and the big-money crowd thinks it’s in on the game.

For all her populist rhetoric against hedge-funders and the like, Clinton has received more donations from CEOs than any candidate in the GOP — you know, the party of the greedy rich.

More than 760 of Clinton’s presidential donors have listed their occupation as CEO or some variation, according to a Big Crunch analysis of federal election forms.

That’s as many as have given to Republican hopefuls Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz combined.

And it doesn’t even include people like hedge-fund CEO Robert Mercer, who prefers to list himself as a “financial consultant” — or those who’ve given instead to pro-Hillary super-PACs. (Or all the folks who’ve bought goodwill over the years by giving to the Clinton Foundation.)

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1percent; bigmoney; clinton; fatcats; hillary
The rich make the best socialists.
1 posted on 10/25/2015 10:13:07 PM PDT by TBP
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2 posted on 10/25/2015 10:24:21 PM PDT by Rodamala
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She’ll pick up the GOPe donors too.


3 posted on 10/25/2015 10:32:52 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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It is easy to be a Marxist, if you are rich.


4 posted on 10/25/2015 10:46:19 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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You have to be rich to be a Marxist.


5 posted on 10/25/2015 10:58:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Elect me because I married a Clinton.

6 posted on 10/25/2015 11:52:10 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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Yes, because they’re all lying SOB’s just like her.


7 posted on 10/26/2015 1:09:05 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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If you’re rich, socialists will protect your position relative to everyone else and create extreme barriers to otehrs getting where you are.


8 posted on 10/26/2015 5:07:40 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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