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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: kmitch200 on December 05, 2011, 06:00:33 PM
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Clinton wants Russian poll complaints probe
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United States has serious concerns about Russia's parliamentary elections and called for allegations of fraud and vote-rigging to be investigated.
"Russian voters deserve a full investigation of all credible reports of electoral fraud and manipulation," the chief US diplomat told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan in Bonn.
"We hope in particular that the Russian authorities will take action on recommendations that come forward from observer missions like the OSCE in its final report and (from) their own electoral observers.
"The Russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted and that means they deserve free, fair transparent elections and leaders who are accountable to them."
http://news.yahoo.com/us-concerned-russia-elections-clinton-150820716.html
Maybe the Russkies could use a top notch AG like Holder. ::)
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47938
A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution.
“They were supposed to be helping Corzine improve his image as a CEO—I guess you can tell how that went,” he said. Corzine resigned as CEO and chairman November 4.
Before Corzine joined MF Global in May 2010, the firm was a smart and well-run commodities broker, a culture that was turned upside-down by his leadership style, he said.
“The traders would be shaking their heads,” he said. “They would come back to their desk and say, ‘Well, I thought we were going to do this—but Corzine would come by and do something else all by himself,’” he said.
The Teneo contract with MF Global lasted at least five months, he said. “The board cancelled it after Corzine resigned.”
The source, who is no longer associated with MF Global, said Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services.
Clinton is the chairman of the company’s advisory board. His duties and compensation have not been released. The other member of the board is former British prime minister Tony Blair.
Two of the three founding partners are very close to the former president and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton. They are Douglas J. Band, who is the former president’s counselor and has served on his personal staff since 1995 and Declan Kelly, who earned the “Hillraiser” status in the secretary’s 2008 run for president for bundling more than $100,000 for the campaign.
Another prominent member of the Clinton political family is Tom Shea. Shea is a senior vice president for Teneo Strategy and served as Corzine’s chief of staff, when Corzine was the governor of New Jersey.
Kelly sold his public relations firm Financial Dynamics in 2006 to FTI for $340 million, and stayed with that company until July 2009, when he joined the State Department as the Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland.
The source said, “Kelly was given a job they created out our whole cloth.” The job did not exist previously.
“He basically got to ride around developing a book of business, while he waited for his non-compete clause to run out,” he said.
Kelley and the former president traveled together networking and making introductions at international conferences and events, he said.
The Secretary of State also traveled with Kelly, including the October 2010 U.S. – Northern Ireland Economics Conference, which Kelly organized and at which the secretary was the featured speaker.
The secretary announced that she accepted Kelly’s resignation May 11.
Teneo landed its first major client June 1, when the Rockefeller Foundation gave Teneo a $3,447,150, six-month contract to help plan the foundation’s 2013 centennial.
The foundation is another member of the Clinton’s extended family. It gave Clinton its Lifetime Innovation Achievement Award July 27 and the foundation is listed as a between $1 to $5 million contributor to the William J. Clinton Foundation, along with several members of the Rockefeller family who are listed as individual contributors.
[In the preparation of this story, several emails and phone calls were placed to Teneo, MF Global and the State Department for comment. In each case, there was no response.]
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Clinton wants Russian poll complaints probe
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United States has serious concerns about Russia's parliamentary elections and called for allegations of fraud and vote-rigging to be investigated.
"Russian voters deserve a full investigation of all credible reports of electoral fraud and manipulation," the chief US diplomat told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan in Bonn.
"We hope in particular that the Russian authorities will take action on recommendations that come forward from observer missions like the OSCE in its final report and (from) their own electoral observers.
"The Russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted and that means they deserve free, fair transparent elections and leaders who are accountable to them."
http://news.yahoo.com/us-concerned-russia-elections-clinton-150820716.html
Maybe the Russkies could use a top notch AG like Holder. ::)
This, because Putin didn't win.. Hillary's statement would be laughable if it wasn't so just wrong for her to be saying......
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Clinton wants Russian poll complaints probe
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United States has serious concerns about Russia's parliamentary elections and called for allegations of fraud and vote-rigging to be investigated.
"Russian voters deserve a full investigation of all credible reports of electoral fraud and manipulation," the chief US diplomat told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan in Bonn.
"We hope in particular that the Russian authorities will take action on recommendations that come forward from observer missions like the OSCE in its final report and (from) their own electoral observers.
"The Russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted and that means they deserve free, fair transparent elections and leaders who are accountable to them."
http://news.yahoo.com/us-concerned-russia-elections-clinton-150820716.html
Maybe the Russkies could use a top notch AG like Holder. ::)
Right, maybe we should have sent Katherine Harris, Tom Delay and Ted Olson, they'd be great examples. ::)
FQ13
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Right, maybe we should have sent Katherine Harris, Tom Delay and Ted Olson, they'd be great examples. ::)
FQ13
Dude.. Katherine Harris did NOTHING but her JOB.. Seriously..
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Dude.. Katherine Harris did NOTHING but her JOB.. Seriously..
Uh huh. And the fact that she was W.'s state campaign co-chair and didn't recuse herself is to be ignored? C'mon, if the situation were reversed you'd be screaming bloody murder. Even if she did right she still should have stepped down and let her second handle it to avoid the appearance of impropriety. I mean can you honestly say there wasn't a huge honking conflict of interest?
FQ13
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Uh huh. And the fact that she was W.'s state campaign co-chair and didn't recuse herself is to be ignored? C'mon, if the situation were reversed you'd be screaming bloody murder. Even if she did right she still should have stepped down and let her second handle it to avoid the appearance of impropriety. I mean can you honestly say there wasn't a huge honking conflict of interest?
FQ13
I was watching her like a hawk for that very reason, and I said the same thing you just said, at the time. I'd have screamed bloody murder if I had seen ANYTHING legit that could've been hung around her neck. I wasn't all that thrilled with W in the first place. It wasn't there..
I do make a distinction between what the press and spinners say, and what I have evidence of. Nothing there. You're wrong about her. She followed the law.. I'm sure you don't like her politics, but nobody really knew much about that at the time. Just leftists spewing their collective lunch. To say that that spew business doesn't impress me would be a little optimistic.
Remember now.. Her job was to certify the election in (as I recall) 7 days. She followed the letter of the law. The Fed doesn't administer Presidental elections. The States do. Each State has their own laws im place. She followed the law. The FL. Supreme Court were the ones shirking their duty under the law.. Under the existing Florida State Law governing elections, as written, at the time of the 200 election being the key idea here. Screaming ans squalling doesn;t mean a thing to me. If it did, any two year old would make a fine electioneer or pundant.
Following the logic you put forward, the first qualification of participation in the process or practice of government is that you must not have an opinion. That, actually, was the signature piece of absurdity that I came away with from that exercise in attempted election fraud by the Democrat Party, now that you remind me..
Sorry.. Katherine Harris did NOTHING wrong.. She followed the law. No more, no less. Nobody ever showed anything other than that. Just a tepmer tantrum that lasted for a very long time..
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I don't agree, but its water under the dam by now. The point was that both parties have engaged in shady elections from JFK to W., and I think we lack a certain credibility in lecturing others if we are honest about our own political history.
FQ13
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Rigghht.
Name a R equivalent to Acorn, or SEIU.
When was the last time the R's went to court because verifying voter residence is racist ?
When was the last time the R's recounted till they won ?
Keep your head in the sand FQ, or where ever you have it stuck.
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Dude.. Katherine Harris did NOTHING but her JOB.. Seriously..
Now you know why we refer to FQ as a tool. He is consistent if nothing else in bringing up total non-sequitors just so the (R)'s look bad as soon as anyone starts trashing a (D). And yet he proclaims himself a "libertarian", or as we like to say, a faux libertarian.
If it helps you to know a little more of his background, he used to be a college perfesser.
To the OP, I thought it should have been posted under the Classic Jokes thread instead of here - a Clinton protesting against voter fraud? Must not have been in her favor.
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I don't agree, but its water under the dam by now. The point was that both parties have engaged in shady elections from JFK to W., and I think we lack a certain credibility in lecturing others if we are honest about our own political history.
FQ13
How about this for a picky thread drift?
It's water under the Bridge, not the dam.....unless your intent was to imply a real disaster which water under a dam would be....
I guess water over the dam works the same way.....water over the bridge would be the disaster.