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Eric Zuesse<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Friendly advice. No mercy.<\/span><\/p>\n From:Joel@gpg.com<\/span><\/p>\n To: john.podesta@gmail.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Date: 2016-02-22 00:09<\/span><\/p>\n Subject: Friendly advice. No mercy.<\/span><\/p>\n Bernie needs to be ground to a pulp. We can’t start believing our own primary bullshit. This is no time to run the general. Crush him as hard as you can. Other than that, hope all is well and congrats on Nevada! <\/span><\/p>\n Sent from my iPhone<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n That wikileaked email<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is from\u00a0Joel Johnson<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Managing Director of The Glover Park Group<\/span><\/a>, who was Bill Clinton\u2019s Senior Advisor for Policy and Communications during the 1990s.\u00a0Salon on November 3rd<\/span><\/a>\u00a0presented more of his connections to Hillary\u2019s campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n Under \u201cPolicy Advocacy\u201d listed prominently among his firm\u2019s \u201cCapabilities\u201d<\/span><\/a>, is:<\/span><\/p>\n When the conversation is about regulation or legislation<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n GPG\u2019s Policy Advocacy team helps organizations navigate the world of federal legislation and regulation.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n We work with our clients to define their priorities and positions. We use research to create sharp messages and attention-grabbing advertising. We change minds and drive actions on the biggest issues of the day.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re experts at shepherding your message through the labyrinth of government. Our lobbyists come from the halls of Congress, the White House and regulatory agencies. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Our work is often invisible. But the results speak for themselves.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n This is how \u2018democracy\u2019 works in America (and other corrupt nations). These people are ardent \u2018Democrats\u2019. They despise Bernie Sanders. (He\u2019s far too honest \u2014 he doesn\u2019t need people like them. But now he\u2019s lying to promote Hillary against Trump. He\u2019s not totally<\/i> honest. He\u2019s dishonest enough now to work on the side of people such as Joel Johnson.)<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse Friendly advice. No mercy. From:Joel@gpg.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com\u00a0 Date: 2016-02-22 00:09 Subject: Friendly advice. No mercy. Bernie needs to be ground to a pulp. We can’t start believing our own primary bullshit. This is no time to run the general. Crush him as hard as you can. Other than that, hope all is well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":277484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18],"tags":[951,96,949,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-277735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news","9":"tag-clinton","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-sanders","12":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}