- roomforthetuna
- Mar 22, 2005
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I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!
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biden will be some sort of turbo-obama or turbobama or just turbama i dont know which
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I asked Google which one Biden will be, and it said did you mean "turdorama"?
there we go, "turdorama"
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- roomforthetuna
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This is ancient history but I clearly remember back in the 90s, my junior high school teacher warned us that if we plagiarized something, that would be the end of us. The example he used was a senator named Joe Biden, who was busted for ripping off somebody's speech. "...And he'll never go anywhere now," said my teacher.
Edit: wait I found what that worthy instructor was referring to:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...9013_story.html
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- Bootleg Trunks
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bidens killin it! (it being the planet)
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1328513633886871553?s=20
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super tuesday was the night of the long brunches for the dnc
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Biden and Kamala disappointment, betrayal, and general shittiness megathread. will periodically update second post with joes bullshit for easy access
It is here that we will chronicle the Biden Administration and its sins
The Story thus far:
Joe:  
1. Led the fight against desegregating schools
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-president-busing-racism
2. Long history of creepily groping, sniffing, kissing women and young girls
source: https://twitter.com/RAMRANTS/status/930065838387863552?s=20
...he then issued a non-apology where he tried to justify his acts
source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/joe-biden-iowa-2020-campaign-teenage-girl-fence-warning.html
3. Intimidated a woman when confronted about his lack of support for reproductive justice
source: https://twitter.com/thelocalmaniac8/status/1138675278933348352?s=20
4. Voted for the disastrous Iraq War
source: https://theweek.com/articles/830438/iraq-war-should-2020-issue
...and still to this day says he'd do it again
source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk
5. Wrote a racist Crime Bill
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinLLham9gk
..that led to record-breaking mass incarceration
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons
..and bragged about writing the Bill
source: https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1124300911533350912?s=20
6. Horrible treatment of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearing
source: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/27/anita-hill-joe-biden-non-apology/
7. Led a disastrous War on Drugs
source: https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/joe-bidens-drug-war-record-is-so-much-worse-than-you-think
...still opposes cannabis legalization
source: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/joe-biden-weed-war-drugs-candidate-2020-827319/
...despite the fact that two of his children escaped consequences for drug use
source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-tough-on-drugs-policies-did-not-apply-to-his-childrens-marijuana-and-cocaine-offenses
8. Opposed equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community until very recently
source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/s280
9. Opposes Medicare For All
source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18515699/joe-biden-2020-presidential-campaign-medicare-for-all
10. Opposes meaningful action on the climate crisis like the Green New Deal, instead pursuing the “middle ground”
source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/443074-biden-crafting-more-centrist-plan-for-climate-change-policy-report
11. Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking Haitian refugees up in Guantanamo Bay
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00013
12. Voted to build border walls
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126
13. Supported sending military to the border long before Trump
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies
14. Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00242
...multiple times
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00108
15. Opposed amnesty for immigrants and supports requiring them to learn English
source: https://twitter.com/maryjanebern/status/1133587205308465156?s=20
16. Helped expand the system Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600%
source: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-deportation-machine-obama-built-for-president-trump/
17. Does not view abortion as a choice and a right
source: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/07/joe-biden-abortion-rights/
18. Worked to undermine the ACA’s coverage of birth control
source: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/05/joe-biden-worked-to-undermine-the-affordable-care-acts-coverage-of-contraception/
19. Opposed Roe v Wade
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-abortion-president
20. Still to this day opposes federal funding for abortion
source: https://gen.medium.com/bidens-middle-ground-politics-are-bad-for-women-704fdec0a1e7
21. Racist comments
source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1141753425362903040?s=20
22. Defends other fellow racists
source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1133814010103705601?s=20
..and more racists
source: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/everybodys-chum
...AND more racists
source: https://twitter.com/QueenInYeIIow/status/1141311792003596288?s=20
23. As part of his crusade against desegregating schools he was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two black appointees to the Department of Justice
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7
24. Lies about marching in the Civil Rights movement
source: https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1135737147095429120?s=20
25. Sided with banks to overturn Glass-Steagall and deregulate, leading to financial crisis
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the_Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act
26. Defends billionaires hoarding wealth
source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/09/joe-biden-clarifies-hes-no-bernie-sanders-i-dont-think-500-billionaires-are-reason
...promises to ensure it keeps happening at the expense of everyone else
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6
..votes to slash the top income tax rate
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020_n_5c796502e4b087c2f295ba31
..and cripple the estate tax
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-push-269-bill_n_7061458
..resulting in $83 billion lost annually
source: https://taxfoundation.org/modeling-economic-effects-past-tax-bills/
27. Plagiarized fossil fuel groups’ language in his woefully inadequate climate crisis plan
source: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-campaign-admits-lifting-section-of-climate-plan-from-fossil-fuel-groups/
28. Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies
29. Supports Israel’s right-wing regime and apartheid in Palestine
source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk
30. Sides with Trump in backing right-wing coup in Venezuela
source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/01/biden-sides-trump-bolton-and-pompeo-backing-coup-effort-venezuela
31. Voted against abolishing the electoral college that undemocratically elected Bush and Trump
source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/96-1979/s161
32. Voted against enhancing labor protection enforcements
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00141
33. Says the CIA torture report is not a “black stain on this country” but a “badge of honor”
source: https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1137412059510050816?s=20
34. Is still openly courting Republican billionaires for donations, including John Catsimatidis, who’s compared taxing the wealthy to Nazi persecution of Jews
source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/bil...er&par=sharebar
35. His administration awarded a $1.5 billion contract to his brother’s construction firm despite his brother having no prior residential construction experience
source: https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/
36. Funded by lobbyists
source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/25/hours-after-entering-2020-race-biden-attend-big-money-fundraiser-hosted-comcast-blue
...and partakes in general corruption
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-neoliberal-democrat-conservative-lobbying
37. Voted to deregulate the credit card industry while a credit card company was his top donor from 1989–2000 and then hired his son
source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/middle-class-joe-cozied-up-to-credit-card-companies-and-made-filing-for-bankruptcy-harder
38. Used Charlottesville as a prop in his campaign video despite never even visiting once
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlottesville-activists-dont-want-joe-biden-to-use-city-as-a-campaign-prop_n_5cc200d2e4b0e56130eeaafd
The worst part? He isn't sorry for any of this
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437582-biden-im-not-sorry-for-anything-that-i-have-ever-done
Kamala:  
-She supported a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents. source:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-san-francisco-immigrant-policy_n_5c758153e4b0bf166204509b
-Supported and funded a bill that would criminalize truancy, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, families of color and homeless mothers. source:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1089974205284798464?s=20
-Declined to prosecute Steven Mnuchin after his bank’s predatory lending and foreclosure fraud broke the law “over a thousand” times and ruined the lives of thousands of homeowners. source:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/03/treasury-nominee-steve-mnuchins-bank-accused-of-widespread-misconduct-in-leaked-memo/
...he later donated to her campaign source:
https://www.rollcall.com/2017/02/14/harris-was-only-2016-senate-democratic-candidate-to-get-cash-from-mnuchin/
-She spent years jailing disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users source:
https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on-black-people-not-crime/
she then tried to pander by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others source:
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/kamala-harriss-snoopgate-is-what-a-political-marijuana-controversy-looks-like-in-2019/
-Stopped the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. source:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general
...and when civil rights groups and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit source:
https://www.scpr.org/news/2013/07/31/38460/san-fernando-valley-man-s-freedom-hangs-in-appeal/
-Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people source:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reforming-three-strikes/
...she opposed the law THREE different times source:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reforming-three-strikes/
-Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal source:
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/
-Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons. source:
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/harris-renews-effort-to-block-gender-reassignment-for-trans-inmate/
-Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons source:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/29/mercury-news-editorial-kamala-harris-needs-to-tackle-prison-standoff/
-Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions source:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/06/06/guess-who-else-voted-against-federal-funding-for-abortion-443667
-She supports Trump escalating war in Syria source:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bipartisan-war-congress-trump-syria-iran-russia-hezbollah/
-Voted to give Trump increased military spending source:
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/23430/61033/120012/national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2018#.XQQgLtNKifQ
...she did that TWICE:
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bil...19#.XQQhV9NKifQ
-Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails” source:
https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090067362907340800?s=20
-Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times source:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226975319.html
-Opposed legalization of sex work source:
http://www.laweekly.com/a-new-movement-to-legalize-prostitution-faces-a-fight-with-kamala-harris/
...endangered sex workers source:
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a52334/backpage-shutdown-make-sex-workers-less-safe/
...and oversaw people being charged for prostitution without even agreeing to sex source:
https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/stung/Content?oid=2177526
-Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud source:
https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-accused-of-letting-company-exploiting-latinos-off-the-hook/
...and, conveniently enough, later received donations from people connected to the corporation source:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/documents-show-san-diego-prosecutors-told-kamala-h/
-Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politics.html
...and now its consultants are running her campaign source:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/21/kamala-harris-2020-campaign-1116076
-Is a latecomer in endorsing Medicare for All and already appears to be backtracking on it source:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/politics/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-eliminate-private-insurers-backlash/index.html
-Supports foreign right-wing influences Netanyahu and AIPAC
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/
-Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...9d15_story.html
-Co-sponsored the bill that let Trump impose sanctions on Iran source:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/722/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded
...which violated the nuclear deal and lead to the currently rising tensions source:
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/media-outlets-lawmakers-us-violated-iran-nuclear-deal-5907a0e5743a/
Yeah this chucklefuckery from the ratfuckign DNC is essentially the reason I cast my vote tactically for That Orange Motherfucker to teach them a lesson and to flaunt the mail in ballot at my succ rear end chud mom
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- roomforthetuna
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I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!
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Lol, this guy is an evil scab, and poo poo at it too, he doesn't even succeed at his evil. I guess maybe that's the best we can hope for!
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- Private Cumshoe
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Yeah this chucklefuckery from the ratfuckign DNC is essentially the reason I cast my vote tactically for That Orange Motherfucker to teach them a lesson and to flaunt the mail in ballot at my succ rear end chud mom
I flaunted my ballot for Dukakis at my mom
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- Bootleg Trunks
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lol every single appointment so far has been god awful
https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/status/1331696895845085189?s=20
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- Bootleg Trunks
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it's honestly very impressive albeit confusing that they've managed to find so many people who are each the worst person in the world.
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yeah but they made a bunch of progressives and women powerless spokespeople. Room for the left in the administration!
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Stealin
I looked up Raimondo and lol she's exactly what you'd expect from Biden's pick for Health and Human Services. Venture capitalist, worked for a subsidiary of Bain Capital before founding her own VC firm which specialized in health insurance investments. 
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191228/ri-cant-cut-ties-with-point-judith-capital She continued to sit on the board of directors when she became Treasurer, then Governor, of Rhode Island, even when the firm signed a multi-million dollar deal with the State. She personally profited from this arrangement to the tune of $888,743 in 2018 alone.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/edward...sh=68328c6544a5 As Treasurer, Raimondo got Rhode Island's state pension fund to invest in her company. As part of this deal, she has received a bonus of at least $125,000/year for the past 13 years, paid by the pension fund (on top of her regular salary of course)
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20181024/fung-says-he-would-investigate-raimondo-pension-cuts At the same time, she fought for "pension reform" in R.I. which "suspended cost-of-living increases for current retirees, and raised the retirement age and lowered the benefits for future retirees." So she got rich off the pension fund while ordinary state workers and retirees got their benefits slashed
Found all this from 10 minutes of googling, I'm sure there's more. Jesus loving Christ.
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nothing will fundamentally change
https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1334399671003975680?s=20
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Updated post after op with bidens cabinet. Will update why each one sucks. If you have some links please submit them
Update: dec 11 2020
Bidens cabinet: Stinker, Failure, Soldier Sty
Need help summarize each of these ghouls
White House Chief of Staff: Ron Klain
Treasury Secretary: Janet Yellen
Secretary of State: Antony Blinken
Defense Secretary: Lloyd Austin
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate: John Kerry
Secretary of Homeland Security: Alejandro Mayorkas
Secretary of of Veterans Affairs: Denis McDonough
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Director of National Intelligence: Avril Haines
National Security Adviser: Jake Sullivan
Office of Management and Budget Director: Neera Tanden
White House Press Secretary: Jennifer Psaki
Top White House economic adviser: Brian Deese
U.S. Trade Representative: Katherine Tai
Surgeon General: Vivek Murthy
Health and Human Services Secretary: Xavier Becerra
White House Domestic Policy Council Director: Susan Rice
Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack
Housing and Urban Development Secretary: Marcia Fudge
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director: Rochelle Walensky
Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President: Jeff Zients
Chief Medical Adviser on COVID-19: Dr. Anthony Fauci
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I feel like this thread prompt is just encouraging spamming since they always suck. A question I have is, does sucking happen on a continuous or discrete basis?
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Mr Bootleg Trunks, thank you for your hard work documentating the Biden-Harris administration's suckage.
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posted:
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency conceded Thursday that her agency was too slow to intervene in the Flint, Mich., water-contamination crisis and less forceful than it should have been when federal officials told a recalcitrant state bureaucracy to act.
Despite learning last June that three homes had lead-tainted water and expressing her concern over the situation in a September email to top staffers, Administrator Gina McCarthy did not use her emergency powers until late January. Assuming the state would make good on promises to take decisive measures, the EPA did not push Michigan’s environmental quality agency hard enough to begin treating the water, McCarthy acknowledged.
But she stood up to often-furious questioning at a congressional hearing that included Republican calls for her resignation, asserting that under the law her agency had done all it could to protect Flint’s 95,000 residents. She refused several times to accept blame for the catastrophe, laying the responsibility on the witness seated next to her, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder.
From here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...1910_story.html
posted:
In a pointed rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, an internal watchdog concluded on Thursday that the agency should have acted more swiftly to warn residents of Flint, Mich., that their water was contaminated with lead.
The report, issued by Arthur A. Elkins Jr., the inspector general for the E.P.A., blamed the federal government for inaction in Flint, echoing the sentiments of many Republicans who have said for more than a year that the agency failed in its oversight role.
Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, has said that while he accepts his share of blame for the contamination of Flint’s water, he also believes officials on the local and federal levels were partly responsible.
In an 11-page report, Mr. Elkins said that E.P.A. officials had enough information and authority to issue an emergency order under the Safe Drinking Water Act as early as June 2015. At that time, officials knew that “systems designed to protect Flint drinking water from lead contamination were not in place, residents had reported multiple abnormalities in the water, and test results from some homes showed lead levels above the federal action level.”
“These situations should generate a greater sense of urgency,” the report said. “The E.P.A. must be better prepared and able to timely intercede in public health emergencies like that which occurred in Flint.”
The E.P.A. did not issue an emergency order until Jan. 21, 2016, seven months later.
Because the E.P.A. did not intervene strongly enough, the report added, “the conditions in Flint persisted, and the state continued to delay taking action to require corrosion control or provide alternative drinking water supplies.”
From here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/...eport-says.html
posted:
Opponents of water privatization are criticizing EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for planning to give the plenary address at a conference sponsored by private water companies. You’d think she might be more leery of the industry, considering that it played a role in the tragic debacle with drinking water in Flint, Michigan.
Wednesday morning, at the American Water Summit, an annual confab hosted by industry trade journal Global Water Intelligence, McCarthy will give opening remarks ahead of a plenary panel featuring CEOs of the largest private water companies in the world. The description of the session claims that “cities cannot do it alone” and promotes private sector involvement in public water systems.
Critics say that McCarthy’s participation implies endorsement of water privatization and that the EPA chief should know better. “We’ve watched the American Water Summit as a forum where the private water industry advances their cause,” says Jesse Bragg, a spokesperson for Corporate Accountability International, an organization that works to protect public health and the environment from corporate abuse. “It’s a place where they promote public-private models with public officials.”
So why would McCarthy, the U.S. official charged with ensuring access to safe drinking water, speak in the same session as these corporations’ CEOs? EPA spokesperson Nick Conger told Grist in an emailed statement that McCarthy wants to “highlight the challenges and opportunities in providing clean and reliable water in the United States.”
EPA and Global Water Intelligence do not agree with Corporate Accountability International’s depiction of the summit. They note that many of the companies present — including three that will be represented on the plenary panel McCarthy introduces — are not water privatizers but companies that provide other services such as engineering, technology, and construction management to both public and private water systems. Public officials will also be attending and speaking at the conference.
But the sponsors paying for the conference include water privatization companies such as Suez. Corporate Accountability International argues that that gives the conference a pro-privatization bent. The National Association of Water Companies, a trade group for the private water industry, is sponsoring the event’s free wifi. It has previously lobbied Congress for legislation friendly to water privatization, such as an amendment to a 2014 bill to make it easier for private water companies to get the same benefits as public authorities in raising money for infrastructure investments through tax-exempt bonds.
From here: https://grist.org/business-technolo...-company-execs/
People in Flint are rightfully pissed about this: https://nbc25news.com/news/local/fl...ormer-epa-chief.
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