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Maybe I am late to the party here but this shocked me...
Is this legal????
"Included in the leak was a list of high-profile donors from 2008 and the ambassadorship they received in exchange for their large donation to the DNC and Barack Obama’s Organizing For Action (OFA). Essentially, Obama was auctioning off foreign ambassador positions and other office positions while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. The largest donor listed at contributions totaling over $3.5 million, Matthew Barzun, served as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011, served as President Obama’s National Finance Chair during his 2012 reelection campaign, and now serves as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
The second largest donor, Julius Genachowski, donated just under $3.5 million to the DNC and OFA, and in exchange was appointed chairman of the FCC by Obama in 2009."
Maybe I am late to the party here but this shocked me...
Is this legal????
"Included in the leak was a list of high-profile donors from 2008 and the ambassadorship they received in exchange for their large donation to the DNC and Barack Obama’s Organizing For Action (OFA). Essentially, Obama was auctioning off foreign ambassador positions and other office positions while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. The largest donor listed at contributions totaling over $3.5 million, Matthew Barzun, served as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011, served as President Obama’s National Finance Chair during his 2012 reelection campaign, and now serves as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
The second largest donor, Julius Genachowski, donated just under $3.5 million to the DNC and OFA, and in exchange was appointed chairman of the FCC by Obama in 2009."
Most of our appointed government positions are filled by political favors, knowing someone, or because of someone supporting a campaign.
And most appointed government regulatory positions are filled by someone who has ties to the very industry they regulate. Example, the FDA's head will be a former drug company CEO, the EPA's head will be former CEO from a large polluting corporation, the forestry commission will be headed by a former CEO of a logging company. And the republicans are much worse at doing these appointments than democrats.
GW Bush got huge sums of campaign money from coal power plants. When GW Bush got elected he killed a law called the "New Source Rule" that required coal plants to become less polluting, Bush also appointed former coal CEO's to the EPA where they cut the EPA's staff so they could no longer regulate polluters effectively, and GW Bush cut the EPA's funding to a make the EPA weaker. Its very expensive for coal power plants to install anti-pollution devices and doing so reduces their profits, so they are very opposed to it.
And as soon as republicans get into power they instantly start handing out favors to their campaign contributors. Like oil corporations giving GW Bush millions of dollars in campaign money, and in turn Bush giving them billions of dollars in tax cuts. Big Oil's Influence in Washington . NOW | PBS
The democrats also hand out favors to these CEO's and corporations. But democrats get HUGE sums of campaign money from worker unions (regular Americans like teachers, construction workers, and welders) so democrats will do a few things that benefit regular Americans.
LBJ was another and Nixon was more than likely in pay to play crap.
09-15-2016, 07:09 PM
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"Ambassador" may as well just be short for "person the president likes for whatever reason," especially if it's somewhere nice.
Many countries prefer it that way. See Caroline Kennedy in Japan, for instance. She's basically a celebrity tourist who shows up at events.
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