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| For a slush fund, that's a lot of slush. |
Were you invited? I was not, but I know neither James Costos nor Michael Smith. Monied elite at a guess, but while recognizable names, perhaps, in Hollywood, they seem to not come to mind as names of reformers or persons with ideas on how to better the status quo. In fact, there is cause to think they see the status quo as just fine and dandy, for them and fundraising attendees. Our kind of folks?
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With the image caption websearch giving multiple links, one was followed; and I was shocked, SHOCKED! to see Comcast Joe at it again:
Earlier in the day, Biden appeared at a noontime fundraiser at the Hancock Park home of Joe Waz, senior strategic adviser for Comcast, and his wife Cynthia Telles, who is on the board of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. About 250 attendees were at the event, and Biden spoke for about 20 minutes, according to a pool report. Tickets started at $250 per person.
That is out of context, so read the whole thing. However, without Comcast, a firm we all know and love so very dearly, Joe's nowhere, but pushing possessions around in a shopping cart and holding a hand lettered cardboard sign, "Will speak for cash."
With all that "Quid," what's the "pro quo?" With that Kaiser stuff mentioned, a sound bet is Medicare for all is not part of any pro quo one might reasonably foresee from pure guessing.
FURTHER: NYT wrote of deja vu. Early in the item, chilling words:
Mr. Biden’s first fund-raiser? Hosted by a Philadelphia-area donor who did the same for Mrs. Clinton four years ago.
NYT writers can sure trigger a gag reflex. Comcast Joe in the footsteps of Comcast Hillary, if that sentence stands as fact.
FURTHER: Cranking up the Plan B machine? Beto left out?