Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her

Almost a decade ago, as Hillary Clinton ran for re-election to the Senate on her way to seeking the presidency for the first time, the New York Times reported on her unusually close relationship with Corning, Inc., an upstate glass titan. Clinton advanced the company's interests, racking up a big assist by getting China to ease a trade barrier. And the firm's mostly Republican executives opened up their wallets for her campaign.

During Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State, Corning lobbied the department on a variety of trade issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The company has donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to her family's foundation. And, last July, when it was clear that Clinton would again seek the presidency in 2016, Corning coughed up a $225,500 honorarium for Clinton to speak.
In the laundry-whirl of stories about Clinton buck-raking, it might be easy for that last part to get lost in the wash. But it's the part that matters most. The $225,500 speaking fee didn't go to help disease-stricken kids in an impoverished village on some long-forgotten patch of the planet. Nor did it go to a campaign account. It went to Hillary Clinton. Personally.

The latest episode in the Clinton money saga is different than the others because it involves the clear, direct personal enrichment of Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate, by people who have a lot of money at stake in the outcome of government decisions. Her federally required financial disclosure was released to media late Friday, a time government officials and political candidates have long reserved for dumping news they hope will have a short shelf life.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/16/8614881/Hillary-Clinton-took-money
The entities that paid a Clinton for a speech, lobbied Hillary Clinton's State Department and donated to the Clinton Foundation

This time, it's about Hillary Clinton having her pockets lined by the very people who seek to influence her. Not in some metaphorical sense. She's literally being paid by them.

I agree that as usual, any and all campaign contributions make any politician look bad.

But that's the way the entire country has been structured since forever.

Any Republicans running on eliminating money flowing to candidates? I haven't heard of any. No Democrats doing so lately either.

Yea, she'll probably be elected anyway.

Thats only half a million dollars which she took....thats peanuts for a U.S politician

Don't all politicians?
Or is it that she showed up and took an envelope and the rest of the politicians do it the "good" way and get "lobbied?"


Maybe it wasn't peanuts for her.
Didn't she say she was dead broke and in debt when she left the white house?

That poor poor woman.
She might have starved to death if she didn't get that $500,000.
I think I saw her on a street corner with a cardboard sign that said "Homeless vet, shot at in Bosnia by snipers. Will give speech for 200k and some food. God Bless!"

The only way she would get elected is if Rand the loon somehow got the nomination.

I wonder if any of the Republican candidates who took money from entities involved in business pending on government action. That would probably eliminate everybody except Ben Carson, and he's probably not even morally opposed to the notion.

That's a good question Mortimer, but were sure Hilliary is.