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Posted on 10/07/2015 6:22:11 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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This is the worst sell out of America since the Rosenberg gave nukes to the Russians. Those involved should be hung by the neck after due process. Trump is very pissed about this — even hillary is appalled!!!! ( IT’S TRUE) This sell out of USA is sickening . We must preserve the record of all who voted for it for the independent grand jury investigations. TREASON !! TREASON TREASON!!
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> $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 “yea” votes.
> The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
> The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.
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Stupid democrats. Can’t even negotiate a decent bribe.
Not that the bribes for the Republicans were that good either.
I guess their globalist masters had a cutoff point: If you demand more than $20,000 you get blackmailed instead of bribed.
Pay to play Bribary way !
Who knew what when?
Pay to play Bribary way !
Who knew what when?
They should be prosecuted for accepting bribes.
We must preserve the record of all who voted for it for the independent grand jury investigations. TREASON !! TREASON TREASON!!
Amen!
A good place to start looking is Tennessee’s senators, Fisher and Corker. They seem to be overly zealous in campaigning for TPP. Check their donor dance cards.
Another non profits billionaires cannot invest in themselves due to risks, so they put the little people’s lives, moneys and blood to it. Christ was right, you cannot serve both God and Mamon.
Not much in the grand scheme. Our congress Is composed of cut-rate whores. Drag a $100 bill through congress andyou never know what you’ll pick up.
Add that with all the other bribes in the last 50 years and well.... theres your salary difference.
The demonic-rats sold out cheap.
A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed.
“We’re very much in the endgame,” US trade representative Michael Froman told reporters over the weekend at a meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the resort island of Boracay. His comments came days after TPP passed another crucial vote in the Senate.
That vote, to give Barack Obama the authority to speed the bill through Congress, comes as the president’s own supporters, senior economists and a host of activists have lobbied against a pact they argue will favor big business but harm US jobs, fail to secure better conditions for workers overseas and undermine free speech online.
Those critics are unlikely to be silenced by an analysis of the sudden flood of money it took to push the pact over its latest hurdle.
Fast-tracking the TPP, meaning its passage through Congress without having its contents available for debate or amendments, was only possible after lots of corporate money exchanged hands with senators. The US Senate passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – the fast-tracking bill – by a 65-33 margin on 14 May. Last Thursday, the Senate voted 62-38 to bring the debate on TPA to a close.
Those impressive majorities follow months of behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing by the world’s most well-heeled multinational corporations with just a handful of holdouts.
Using data from the Federal Election Commission, this chart shows all donations that corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP made to US Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate:
Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 “yea” votes.
The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.
The amounts given rise dramatically when looking at how much each senator running for re-election received.
Two days before the fast-track vote, Obama was a few votes shy of having the filibuster-proof majority he needed. Ron Wyden and seven other Senate Democrats announced they were on the fence on 12 May, distinguishing themselves from the Senate’s 54 Republicans and handful of Democrats as the votes to sway.
In just 24 hours, Wyden and five of those Democratic holdouts – Michael Bennet of Colorado, Dianne Feinstein of California, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Patty Murray of Washington, and Bill Nelson of Florida – caved and voted for fast-track.
Bennet, Murray, and Wyden – all running for re-election in 2016 – received $105,900 between the three of them. Bennet, who comes from the more purple state of Colorado, got $53,700 in corporate campaign donations between January and March 2015, according to Channing’s research.
Almost 100% of the Republicans in the US Senate voted for fast-track – the only two non-votes on TPA were a Republican from Louisiana and a Republican from Alaska.
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who is the former US trade representative, has been one of the loudest proponents of the TPP. (In a comment to the Guardian Portman’s office said: “Senator Portman is not a vocal proponent of TPP - he has said it’s still being negotiated and if and when an agreement is reached he will review it carefully.”) He received $119,700 from 14 different corporations between January and March, most of which comes from donations from Goldman Sachs ($70,600), Pfizer ($15,700), and Procter & Gamble ($12,900). Portman is expected to run against former Ohio governor Ted Strickland in 2016 in one of the most politically competitive states in the country.
Seven Republicans who voted “yea” to fast-track and are also running for re-election next year cleaned up between January and March. Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia received $102,500 in corporate contributions. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, best known for proposing a Monsanto-written bill in 2013 that became known as the Monsanto Protection Act, received $77,900 – $13,500 of which came from Monsanto.
Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain received $51,700 in the first quarter of 2015. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina received $60,000 in corporate donations. Eighty-one-year-old senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who is running for his seventh Senate term, received $35,000. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who will be running for his first full six-year term in 2016, received $67,500 from pro-TPP corporations.
“It’s a rare thing for members of Congress to go against the money these days,” said Mansur Gidfar, spokesman for the anti-corruption group Represent.Us. “They know exactly which special interests they need to keep happy if they want to fund their reelection campaigns or secure a future job as a lobbyist.
“How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests?” Gidfar said. “As long as this kind of transparently corrupt behavior remains legal, we won’t have a government that truly represents the people.”
Some were bribed and some were blackmailed. And once you take a bribe, you will always be susceptible to blackmail.
Knowledge of Kobar....now this. You are NO 15 yr. old.
Why won’t you answer, troll? Have homeowrk to do with mommy? Different time zone? Asleep already? What’s the excuse?
Placemark
You don’t have to bribe politicians that you have bought and own outright.
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