I knew Hillary Clinton was insistent that "lobbyists were real people, too," but I didn't realize she meant they were real rural people, too:
So later this month, according to THIS INVITATION, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, is holding a "Rural Americans for Hillary" lunch and campaign briefing at the end of this month….
..but she's holding it in Washington, DC….
…at a lobbying firm…
… and specifically, though it's not mentioned in the invitation, at the lobbying firm Troutman Sanders Public Affairs…
…which just so happens to lobby for the controversial multinational agri-biotech Monsanto...A company that the website "Ethical Investing" labels "the world's most unethical and harmful investment."
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Holding an agri-summit in the plush halls of the lobbyists for Monsanto doesn't sound like the kind of "rural Americans" a presidential candidate would necessarily want to be photographed with.
It's real testament to Hillary's strength in the field, and the utter lack of traction the candidates have gotten attacking her ties to lobbyists, that she's not even feeling compelled to be careful about this sort of thing.
