Posted on 10/20/2020 8:27:50 PM PDT by Fedora
. . .Many lobbyists have been telling their clients that they expect a strong relationship with a potential Biden administration. Reasons include: Steve Ricchetti, himself a former lobbyist, is Bidens campaign chairman and has been mentioned as a potential candidate for White House chief of staff; and the campaigns transition team allows the inclusion of lobbyists. . .
Biden has pledged to curb the improper influence of lobbyists and build upon the Obama administrations ethics pledge. Obama signed an executive order early on in his first term as president, which said that appointees who were previously registered lobbyists during the prior two years should not participate in any government matters on which they had previously lobbied.
The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment on this story. . .
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Biden is a crony- Capitalist to the hilt.
The left is worried Ricchetti will give us talking points lol:
https://cepr.net/bidens-big-test-selecting-a-white-house-chief-of-staff/
Bidens Big Test: Selecting a White House Chief of Staff (09/17/2020)
Vice President Joe Biden was angry. It was 2013, and Ron Klain, his trusted chief of staff, was leaving for the private sector. Biden needed someone dependable to replace him during the second term. But David Plouffe, President Obamas campaign guru and top political adviser, kept shooting down his picks. First, he vetoed Kevin Sheekey, an adviser to thenNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, out of fear hed be too loyal to the financier-oligarch. Biden conceded, and instead suggested Steve Ricchetti.
Ricchetti, a longtime political operative, was at the time the founder and chairman of the powerful lobbying firm Ricchetti, Inc. Though he hadnt personally registered as a lobbyist in years, he did give the marching orders to a team of hired guns for the most powerful industries in America, including extensive ties to Big Pharma.
Plouffe didnt budge. The Ricchetti pick also was killed, Glenn Thrush reported for Politico Magazine at the time, in part because Plouffe said his background violated the presidents no-lobbyists pledgebut mostly because Ricchetti was deemed to be too chummy with the Clintons and too much of a free agent who would look after Bidens interests first.
This enraged Biden. Who was Plouffe, a man 24 years his junior, to tell him what to do? He [Biden] appealed directly to Obama, who initially deferred to Plouffes judgment, Thrush reports. Biden pressed Obama harder, arguing that he needed to have his own people to do this job, as one aide briefed on the interaction put it. Obama finally assentedwith the caveat that Biden had to keep Steve from coloring outside of the lines.. . .
Today, Ricchetti co-chairs Bidens presidential campaign, and is well positioned to resume his role as Bidens chief of staff in the White House, should his boss vanquish Donald Trump in November. If this happens, a man who has always argued against Bidens best instincts, and a lifelong enemy of the progressive movement, will be the chief gatekeeper to the presidents desk. . .
Ricchetti may be subtler and smarter than Rahmbo, [Rahm Emanuel] but he would be no less of a threat if placed in charge of the Biden White House. More than just cussing out organized labor, Ricchettis career highlight was deliberately undermining it: He led Bill Clintons effort to pass permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China in 2000, which economists predicted at the time would cause massive blue-collar job loss. Research since has concluded that PNTR directly led to the manufacturing collapse, and that the affected (largely union) workers were unable to re-skill in the way traditional trade theory suggests they would. . .
And then there are Ricchettis ties to the most hated industry in America, Big Pharma. Biden has pivoted to an aggressive plan for lowering prescription drug prices, a problem on which GOP voters, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are all united. He has vowed to repeal the law that prohibits negotiation with drug companies under Medicare, limit launch prices that set a high baseline for prescription drugs, confine price increases to the rate of inflation, and accelerate the development of generics. What message would it send about the seriousness of this plan for Bidens right-hand man to have personally represented Novartis, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi?
Just last night, news broke that Ricchetti, Inc. has signed on to lobby on behalf of two pharmaceutical companies, Horizon Pharma and GlaxoSmithKline. This is on top of the firms longstanding relationship with Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai, whom Steve Ricchettis brother Jeff, co-founder of the lobbying firm, personally represents. Big Pharma clearly knows that their route into sabotaging Bidens prescription-drug agenda runs through Steve Ricchetti. The rights propaganda machine would have a field day with such a glaring conflict of interest. If Biden grants Ricchetti a senior job, hed give Tucker Carlson a free attack line grounded in actually legitimate complaints.
Given the clients that both Ricchettis are willing to take on, its perhaps unsurprising that Steve has been the Biden campaigns ace in the hole when it comes to high-dollar fundraising. Early on, he sold private conversations with himself as an incentive to wealthy donors, and has given backroom pitches to Wall Street executives. When Bidens campaign was flailing in January, Ricchetti was personally imploring bundlers to gather as much money as possible, according to The New York Times.
Cleverly, Ricchetti has pushed Biden toward opposing support from super PACs, even as he cozies up to the wealthy donors who make super PACs so odious and gets them to donate to Biden directly. By spurning the best-known means of big-money corruption, but not big-money corruption per se, Ricchetti can create an appearance of concern for the public interest without meaningfully changing his tactics.
Ricchettis comfort around the ultra-wealthy is probably one of his biggest assets to the Biden campaign. Journalist George Packer writes that Biden used to denigrate his fundraising aide Jeff Connaughton because Biden hated fund-raising, the drudgery and compromises it entailed. He resented any demands placed on him by the people who helped him raise money and the people who wrote checks, as if he couldnt stand owing them. (For his part, Connaughton went on to author the angry confessional The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins, where he writes, I came to D.C. a Democrat and left a plutocrat.)
Biden bragged for decades about being one of the poorest men in Congress. His disdain for D.C. glad-handing meant that from day one, onlookers predicted Biden would struggle with funding a national presidential campaignand sure enough, Biden for President, Inc., was running on fumes in January when Ricchetti told bundlers to dig deep. . .
Folks!..you cant make this $hit up!!!
and in other news...... Biden has pledged, in the name of diversity, to put not just one...but ALL 37 SPECIES of Foxes to guard the nations hen houses!
https://www.foxesworlds.com/types-of-foxes/
and In a rambling speech to one CNBC reporter...He also said he would get rid of Trumps Fox in the White House and replace her with a Viper as he lovingly looked into his wifes eyes and said....Not that black girl that follows me around, whats her name, but you Dr Jill!!.....Now laugh you stupid bastards!
Biden has pledged to curb the improper influence of lobbyists and build upon the Obama administrations ethics pledge. Obama signed an executive order early on in his first term as president, which said that appointees who were previously registered lobbyists during the prior...
Simply, my guys are in and your guys are out
Keep “preparing” guys, yeah you just do that.
Preparing for a Biden presidency:
1. Sell all stocks in retail and energy.
2. Sell any properties in Seattle, Portland, LA, Etc...
3. Invest in gun and ammo companies.
4. Short the DOW; S&P 500; Airlines; Cruise Lines; and Oil.
5. Buy gold.
6. Buy new gas powered car while you still can.
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