Civil rights group ColorOfChange announced Thursday that the Hillary Clinton campaign has agreed to stop accepting contributions from lobbyists and campaign committees that serve the private prison industry.
The announcement came after a series of protests from activist groups about the ties between private prison lobbyists and the Clinton campaign. In one act of protest, United We Dream’s Juan Carlos Ramos interrupted a Clinton speech earlier this month to raise the issue.
The protests began after a report by The Intercept in July detailing how many of Clinton’s top fundraisers simultaneously serve as lobbyists at firms representing the biggest names in the private prison industry, including Geo Group and Correction Corporation of America.
According to Fusion, the Clinton campaign promised to donate any previous direct contributions from private prison lobbyists to charity.
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4 comments:
Hillary has pledged so many things. How many of them did she bring to reality?
Bill promised something to Monica that night. How well did that work out?
Every time I hear or see something about a Clinton I think of Æsop's fable about the little child who cried wolf.
Give up the bribery money?
THAT ain't happenin'.
She couldn't tell the truth if she was held at gunpoint.
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