Hillary Wins Support From Businesses, Ex-Foes, Aiding 2008 Bid

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Buried in the campaign filings for Hillary Clinton's 2006 re-election were $3,000 in donations from America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group.

America's Health Insurance Plans is the same group that vilified Clinton in 1993 with the ``Harry and Louise'' commercials -- an advertising blitz that helped doom her plan to guarantee health-insurance coverage for all Americans.

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The insurance lobby is just one of the unlikely friends that Democrat Clinton has won during her time in the Senate...

Drugmaker Roche Holding AG gave the maximum allowed to her 2006 campaign. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch threw a fund- raising event for her in July. Even some of President George W. Bush's biggest backers, including Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack, supported her.

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In November 2004, she helped a Lockheed Martin Corp. plant in New York win a contract to build new Marine One presidential helicopters. She called British Prime Minister Tony Blair and suggested he personally lobby Bush on behalf of the U.S.-British coalition of companies.

Two months later, Lockheed wrested away the $1.7 billion deal from Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., which had made the helicopters for half a century. ``She was there, win or lose,'' says Lockheed spokesman Tom Jurkowsky. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed gave $10,000 to her re- election.

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In her race for re-election in 2006, executives in the finance, insurance and real-estate industries gave her about $6 million, three times more than in 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington research group. The employees of Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. represent her two biggest groups of corporate donors.

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Clinton has embraced business concerns on a number of key votes during her six years in the Senate.

Her support for fewer restrictions on worker visas helped her earn a 35 percent rating in 2005 from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That ranked Clinton above 14 of the other 43 Senate Democrats that year...

She was one of only 11 Democrats to vote for the U.S.-Oman free-trade agreement last Sept. 19. In August, she voted to allow offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which passed 71-25.

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

No surprises there...

Another corporate-lackey #######.

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Another corporate-lackey #######.

Just means she's more likely to win than if she wasn't.

[bhajishah 4]

Probaly the same manafactures of the voting machines. no more hanging tabs

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Another corporate-lackey #######.

Just means she's more likely to win than if she wasn't.

Of course... Who will pay for her campaign otherwise?

[Robor007 0]

Probaly the same manafactures of the voting machines. no more hanging tabs

Get it right, it's 'chads'.

<===== Lives in FL and still hears about how 'we' don't know how to vote.