'Cheers' for the general
And a few boos also.
Wesley Clark's top career patrons are Citigroup, $6,250; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meaher & Flom, $5,950, and Sullivan & Cromwell, $5,500.
From January 2002 until two weeks after declaring his intention to seek the presidency, the retired general received up to $830,000 for his work as a registered lobbyist for Acxiom Corp., a firm seeking terrorism-related federal contracts while Clark "was offering expert commentary on the War on Terror" on CNN.
That's pretty much a standard career path for a MIC guy. After retiring from the military, you take a cushy job in with a MIC contractor, or if you've got the necessary polish and contacts, become a Washington MIC lobbyist.
Mind you all politicians have a problem. Here's Dean's ...
Howard Dean's top career patrons are Time Warner, $65,225; Microsoft Corp., $25,100, and IBM Corp., $23,250.
When governor, Dean pushed for utility contract provisions that "cost Vermont families millions of dollars," but pleased Central Vermont Public Service Corp., which donated more than $10,000 to Dean's Fund for a Healthy America PAC.
or Edwards
John Edwards' top career patrons are Shangri-La Entertainment and Stephen Bing, $907,000; Baron & Budd of Dallas, $408,250, and Girardi & Keese, $362,475.
As a senator from North Carolina, the former trial lawyer, whose 25 top career patrons included 22 law firms, pushed for a patient's bill of rights that would have "opened new avenues for lawsuits."
And these are the "good guys". On the Republican side, it's more obscene. Hold your nose and read
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