Dem Superdelegates Were Lobbyists?

Posted by Tina

Bernie Sanders called the Democrat primary race a rigged system. It looks like there’s some hard core evidence to prove him right. The Washington Examiner reports:

At least 63 of 712 superdelegates were registered at some point as lobbyists on the state or federal level, according to an analysis conducted this year by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Sunlight Foundation.

These individuals represented interests that span across big banks, healthcare insurers, the telecommunications industry and unions, including Goldman Sachs and Planned Parenthood.

The list includes former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who is currently registered for the healthcare insurance company Aetna, former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, a registered lobbyist with the Gephardt Group and former DNC General Chairman and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who was registered for Ballard Spahr LLP as recently as 2012.

The Sunlight Foundation also found some superdelegates they call “shadow delegates. “These were people were not lobbyists but were “heavily involved in the influence industry.” As the Examiner noted, “…more than 600 superdelegates backed the former secretary of state, and in some cases handed her more delegates than Sanders in states where he won a majority of the primary vote.”

What a stain this is on the party and it’s candidate!

Is there anything about the party that crowned Hillary Clinton, or the candidate herself, that isn’t a big fat lie? Not in my book…unless you count Hillary’s insatiable desire to be the first woman president and her unscrupulous determination to get there…she will do anything.