South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden talk during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. ~ DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES
Biden is currently the Democratic candidate with the highest donations from the pharmaceuticals and health products industry, second only to President Trump. His ties to pharma run deep: Biden’s campaign chairman is Steve Richetti, a former lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies Novartis, Eli Lilly and Sanofi. The latter two corporations are currently embroiled in a class action lawsuit over accusations of fixing insulin prices. Biden also chose a former senior VP from Pfizer, Greg Simon, to lead his Biden Cancer Initiative. On the campaign trail, Biden came under fire for praising pharma when speaking about the initiative to donors.
Buttigieg follows Biden in the race for pharma and health products donors, with contributions from executives at Pfizer, Bayer and Eli Lilly. Pfizer chief corporate affairs officer Sally Susan donated $2,800 to the Buttigieg campaign. Chief medical officer Kevin Williams donated $1,000, and former Pfizer general counsel Louis Ramos donated $2,820.
Buttigieg’s funders also include Thaddeus Burns, the head of government affairs at pharmaceutical company Merck Life Sciences. Burns donated $6,300 to Buttigieg’s campaign (slightly overstepping the legal maximums) and hosted a fundraiser for him in Geneva. Merck paid out over $950 million in 2011 for illegally marketing a drug for uses the FDA didn’t approve. From 1999 to 2007, Burns worked for lobbying firm Akin Gump. There, he schmoozed on behalf of pharma industry clients including Merck, Pfizer, Human Genome Sciences, and Wyeth.
Influential executives at the pharma giant Bayer are also cozying up to Buttigieg.
MORE: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-and-buttigieg-see-pharma-money-as-the-cure-for-campaign-woes/
Wilmington, North Carolina's Closet-Homo/Closet-Republican Mayor, Vasilios Avgerinos "Bill" Saffo (the fat-headed Greek next to Bloomberg) ENDORSED Bloomberg when he was in Wilmington Saturday, February 29, 2020 -- PROVING that he, TOO, HATES BLACKS (a large percentage of Wilmington's Electorate).
All my Readers know that "Bill" Saffo's FIRST POLITICAL HERO that he worked hard to get elected was Republican Senator Jesse Helms -- the SAME MAN my father claimed the MOST RESPONSIBILITY for putting into the Senate, and Dad and my Mom SET UP the Wilmington and Atlanta CHRISTIAN DRUG MAFIAS on DIRECT ORDERS of Pope John-Paul II, with Father Robert J. Kus (now hiding from US LAW in Honduras), and Nixon's Aide John Ehrlichman.
Meanwhile:
>>> And JUST NOW, the BIGGEST ROMAN CATHOLIC MISOGYNIST and "Bernie Sanders Hater", Chris Matthews of MSNBC was ABRUPTLY FIRED!!!
Also today, Pope Francis FOUND HIS BALLS -- and is OPENING the LAST of the Vatican's files on Pope Pius XII -- who TOTALLY SUPPORTED ADOLPH HITLER -- and was TIGHT with America's TOP NAZIS: Rose and Old Joe Kennedy, Prescott Bush, and Henry Ford.
THIS will have HUGE RAMIFICATIONS in the World seeing that the Catholic Church set the WHOLE WORLD on fire supporting NAZISM then -- and Catholics like my parents and those in today's Republican Party -- and the "Clinton Democrats", TODAY:
Pope Pius XII
MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskonkordat
Vatican to open controversial WW2-era files on Pope Pius XII
By Delia Gallagher, CNN
Updated 2:21 PM ET, Mon March 2, 2020
Rome (CNN)Secret archives at the Vatican will be opened for the first time on Monday, giving scholars access to documents that may shed light on the controversial figure of Pope Pius XII, who has been accused of failing to help to save Jews during World War II.
Scholars and Jewish groups have been asking for decades that the archives, which contains millions of letters, cables and correspondence from Pius XII's 1939-1958 pontificate, be made available for study.
"We need to express our enormous gratitude and appreciation to Pope Francis for taking this step," said Menachem Rosensaft, associate executive vice president and general counsel of the World Jewish Congress.
The Vatican normally waits 70 years after the death of a pope before making his archives available for study.
>>> NOW, I STILL RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE VOTES FOR THE PERSON WHO HOLDS THE SAME VIEWS THAT THEY HAVE:
And Benjamin Schachtman and his Port City Daily has published a GUIDE on Candidates for New Hanover County Commission -- to help you decide. NOTICE that THREE Republicans didn't BOTHER sending him their Profiles!!!:
And "Saint Bad Boy" is ME, Scott David Kenan:
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