.@JoeBiden is also leaning on Alan Patricof for fundraising. Patricof is one of the pioneers of the private equity industry, aka financial strip-mining!
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Silicon Valley insider Jon Fisher is a
@JoeBiden bundler too. Fisher is a major advocate for building start-ups with the goal of being bought by a bigger firm instead of trying to actually create a standalone company. Curse of Bigness anyone? Cc@teddyschleiferShow this thread -
Biden has another Hollywood mogul bundling for him: Jim Gianopulos, CEO of Paramount. Note that Paramount’s parent company Viacom recently announced a merger with CBS, with Gianopulos confirmed to run the film division. Raising cash for POTUS could help with that merger review...
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That Mark Gitenstein, a former Biden aide, is fundraising for him is unsurprising. But it is notable, since Gitenstein was embarrassingly rejected for an assistant AG job after
@Public_Citizen pointed out his legal work for the Chamber of Commerce.https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022603391.html …Show this thread -
FOSSIL FUEL $$$ ALERT:
@JoeBiden bundler Michael Collier has worked in oil financing for decades. In October, he wrote a piece defending Big Oil’s piecemeal reforms while framing the need for clean energy as a question of investment incentives. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/2019/10/15/will-the-oil-industry-help-address-climate-change/ …pic.twitter.com/yNXsO72PB9
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Looks like Elon Musk wants to build an inroad -- or, uh, in-hyperloop -- with
@JoeBiden. The Head of Global Government Affairs (read: quasi-lobbyist) for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Michelle Kraus, is a Biden bundler. (She also runs a well-connected consulting firm)Show this thread -
More hedge fund $$$ behind
@JoeBiden. This time it's Brian Kreiter, an executive at the industry's largest firm, Bridgewater Associates. Kreiter in particular helped build Elemental Cognition, an AI company backed by Bridgewater.Show this thread -
Connecticut governor
@NedLamont and his wife Annie are both@JoeBiden bundlers too. Lamont ran a progressive primary against Joe Lieberman in '06. He said Lieberman was too close to George W. Bush, especially since Lieberman voted for the Iraq War. Biden also voted for the war.Show this thread -
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@JoeBiden waffling on his promise not to take lobbyist money. His bundler Brian McGlinchey runs "a full-service, bipartisan public affairs firm specializing in government relations and lobbying" called McCarter Government Solutions. McGlinchey is a former Biden staffer.Show this thread -
Virginia Governor
@TerryMcAuliffe has backed@JoeBiden from the get-go, but we now know that McAuliffe's wife Dorothy is bundling for the former VP.Show this thread -
Sanjeev Mehra used to be the
@GoldmanSachs vice-chairman of global private equity. Today, he's on the board of Aramark. He and his wife Karen are also bundlers for@JoeBiden.Show this thread -
The investor Bill Miller, profiled by
@renaemerle here, is another@JoeBiden bundler.https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/jobs/bs-bz-bill-miller-comeback-story.html …Show this thread -
And
@aidachavez wrote about@JoeBiden bundler Michael Neidorff, CEO of the health insurance giant Centene and major player in the prison healthcare market, here.https://theintercept.com/2019/12/31/joe-biden-fundraiser-centene-for-profit-prison/?comments=1 …Show this thread -
Two
@JoeBiden bundlers with a famous last name: Alexis and Laurence Pelosi. She is the daughter of@SpeakerPelosi. He is the Speaker's nephew. She is a documentary filmmaker. He is an executive at Morgan Stanley.Show this thread -
After serving as Bill Clinton's Sec. of Energy, Federico Peña took jobs in both private equity, and running corporate responsibility for...
@WellsFargo. He left Wells two years after the fake accounts scandal broke. And now he's bundling for@JoeBiden.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wells-fargo-accounts-pena/wells-fargos-corporate-responsibility-chair-resigns-from-private-equity-firm-idUSKCN12O005 …Show this thread -
BTW, if you need to brush up on your knowledge of
@WellsFargo's many scandals, the good folks at@RealBankReform have got you covered.https://medium.com/@RealBankReform/wells-fargo-scandal-tracker-af83ac9eaac9 …Show this thread -
Wade Randlett advised President Obama on trade policy. Now he's bundling for
@JoeBiden. He also started the Big Tech lobbying group@TechNetUpdate. Our@ceprdc colleague Deborah James has documented how Silicon Valley uses trade to consolidate power. http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/giant-tech-corporations-join-forces-with-the-wto-to-try-to-launch-a-wto-2-0-to-cement-digital-colonialism-through-international-treaties …pic.twitter.com/auQMffBQic
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Another
@JoeBiden bundler with an interesting last name: Charles "Rocky" Saxbe, the son of Nixon-Ford Attorney General William Saxbe. Biden and the elder Saxbe served in Congress together.@lizskalka reported on a Saxbe-led fundraiser in October.https://www.toledoblade.com/local/politics/2019/10/28/gop-attorney-charles-saxbe-hosting-joe-biden-fund-raiser-in-ohio/stories/20191028137 …Show this thread -
Biden's first labor endorsement came from the International Association of Fire Fighters, whose president Harold Schaitberger has a longstanding relationship with the former VP. The Biden campaign is now listing Schaitberger as a bundler as well.
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Former
@Microsoft president, COO, and director Jon Shirley is a@JoeBiden bundler. So is his wife Kim.Show this thread -
Timothy Shriver and his wife Linda Potter are also Biden bundlers. Shriver is the chairman of the Special Olympics, and a nephew of John F. Kennedy.
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BIG MONEY ALERT:
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Even more private equity $$$ is backing Joe Biden. There's Jay Snyder of HBJ Investments and James Costos of PJT Partners, a spin-off of
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@JoeBiden chided@amazon for paying a "lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers." (Amazon paid $0 in federal income taxes last year.) But its SVP and General Counsel David Zapolsky bundles for Biden, and hosted him for a fundraiser.@athenaforallhttps://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2019/10/31/amazon-general-counsel-david-zapolsky-rolls-out-welcome-mat-for-joe-biden/ …Show this thread -
Once described as "the businessman's businessman in the Obama White House," Jeffrey Zients built the holding company Cranemere Ltd. after 2016. Now he's bundling for
@JoeBiden, perhaps in hopes of revolving back into the executive branch.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/jeff-zients-was-with-obama-for-the-long-haul--and-now-hes-going-long-in-investing/2018/05/11/baadb1aa-5312-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html …Show this thread -
And with that, this thread is finally complete! If you haven't yet, check out our
@EleanorEagan in@theprospect on why the names and backgrounds of these bundlers matters. (Spoiler alert: some of them might be looking for powerful jobs!)https://prospect.org/power/christmas-miracle-biden-unexamined-list-bundlers/ …Show this thread
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