First Crony Michelle Obama’s big business bonanza
Townhall – Michelle Malkin –
11/1/2013
Mrs. Obama has profited
handsomely from the very same processed food industry she now demonizes. In
June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, Mrs.
Obama was named to the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Despite zero experience, the
food-processing company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate
governance committees. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting
her name and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005
and $51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama -- as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options
worth more than $72,000 for each year.
TreeHouse, a leading
supplier to Wal-Mart, sells cheese sauces, Cremora non-dairy creamer, instant
soup, puddings and powdered soft drink mixes, and pickles for McDonald's. Eat
as she says, not as she deals.
Mrs. Obama has moved on from
TreeHouse to much fatter "partnerships." The alliances between big
business and big government, marketed as a public service "for the
children," have been a bonanza for the first crony. They scratch her back,
her clout and popularity increase, and she'll have a cornucopia of board of
director slots to choose from after her hubby's term is up. Make no mistake:
Michelle's fruits and vegetables are served on a heaping platter of progressive
hypocrisy.
(Blogger comment: Sounds like Operation Push, Jesse Jackson’s
tactics used in Chicago
for decades.)
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