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Atlanta Mayor’s Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show

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[FONT=TIActuBeta-ExBold_web]A FEW DAYS BEFORE[/FONT] the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”
But emails released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.
Anne Torres, the mayor’s director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The column’s revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.
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Tsk tsk tsk. Drafted by a lobbyist and then edited by her Super PAC. Not to mention a big money corporate lobbyist and health insurance lobbyist.
 
It is Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed we are talking about here, he is all kinds of dubious. And really he is an asshole.
 
She has run a respectful campaign. You guys sound like a bunch of right wing radio conspiratists. Will the attacks on her never end? Will you just..

I can't, I can't even type it anymore. My fingers are refusing to obey. For all the people who feel Shillary's lead/win in the primaries is legitimate, that she has won fairly, gotten more delegates, leads in overall primary votes, well it's at least partly due to shenanigans like this. For every one we learn about, there are likely ten more we don't. She plays dirty wherever there is a decent opportunity to. Mayor willing to claim he authored a lobbyist written Clinton super PAC edited article? Well that right there is the very definition of opportunity. Damn the machines, damn them to hell.

The only upside is that, if Trump somehow stands a chance of winning, she would still win, by dishonest means if necessary.
 
Super PACs were intended to be independent entities, explicitly prohibited from coordinating directly with campaigns. Correct the Record, however, has tested the limits of campaign finance law and openly coordinates with the Clinton campaign. The group claims it is not engaging in campaign speech known as “independent expenditures,” a classification for traditional campaign communications, and therefore is exempted from the coordination rules.

Experts on campaign finance have questioned the coordination. Campaign Legal Center’s Paul Ryan told Time reporter Michael Scherer that Correct the Record is “creating new ways to undermine campaign regulation” by skirting the coordination rules.
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I really really hope Bernie keeps up some sort of political pressure to address campaign finance and CU. I simply can't wait to see her squirm as her campaign promise to do so is rubbed in her face. And I fully expect some prefabricated excuse as to why it can't be done right now, but it's still an issue she "feels very strongly about".
 
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I really really hope Bernie keeps up some sort of political pressure to address campaign finance and CU. I simply can't wait to see her squirm as her campaign promise to do so is rubbed in her face. And I fully expect some prefabricated excuse as to why it can't be done right now, but it's still an issue she "feels very strongly about".
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I agree with your point - she's got no interest in reform since she will no doubt be the huge winner from big money contributions - but in fairness, as long as Mitch McConnell is in charge nothing will get through the Senate. I read the other day the GOP added some rider to an unrelated bill removing any requirement for (c)(4)s to report donors to IRS, much less disclose them to the public. Sen. Turtle is a pretty proud and enthusiastic supporter of more money and more secret money getting funneled into politics.
 
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