While Hillary Clinton continues to hedge her position
on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the related issue of trade promotion
authority, her campaign is partnering with a pro-TPP/TPA law and lobby
firm to raise cash.
The House Rules Committee held an
“emergency meeting” at 4:40 p.m. on
Wednesday to plan how to move forward with TPA.
At 5:00
p.m., the Clinton campaign was holding a Washington, D.C. fundraiser
with the McGuireWoods law firm’s PAC. According to lobby registration documents,
the firm’s McGuireWoods Consulting subsidiary is lobbying on behalf of Smithfield
Foods to help
pass both the TPP and TPA.
Despite mounting pressure
to take a position, Clinton has only provided non-commital answers
regarding her stance on both TPP and TPA. On Sunday, at a rally in
Iowa, Clinton said
there should be better protections for American workers and called for the
president to work with Democrats in Congress — hardly a clarifying statement.
Earlier that day, her chief pollster dismissed
a call from ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos to provide a clear stance on TPA,
casting the issue as simply “Washington inside baseball.”
For the event in D.C., billed as a “Conversation with
John Podesta, Campaign Chair,” the Clinton campaign
website said that I could learn the exact location only after RSVPing
through a donation. I gave one dollar to find out. Apparently, that wasn’t
enough. Instead of providing the address of the fundraiser as the campaign
website had said it would, the campaign directed me to a site where I could
volunteer.
(This post is from our blog: Unofficial
Sources.)
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