Clarke in the News
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Our Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, was among those busted by the New York Times over the weekend reading into the congressional record a statement that was “ghostwritten … by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.”
“I see this bill as an exciting opportunity to create the kind of jobs we so desperately need in this country, while at the same time improving the lives of all Americans,” Clarke said in the passage of her comments on health care legislation that appears to have been written for her by the industry which is not, I don’t think, a major employer in her district.
One Response to “Clarke in the News”
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no_slappz says:
November 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Yvette Clarke may be unable to recall that she never graduated from college despite telling voters she had, but her following statement is correct:
““I see this bill as an exciting opportunity to create the kind of jobs we so desperately need in this country, while at the same time improving the lives of all Americans,””
Absolutely true. Jobs in the US for highly trained people.
Jobs in Brooklyn? Well, yes, here too. Why? Because the largest buyers of Genentech’s drugs are Medicare and Medicaid. And everyone else who shops in drugstores.
Genentech products are found in every drugstore in the borough and those drugstores are leading retail employers. Thus, on a couple of levels Genentech is doing its part to meet the needs of 2.5 million Brooklynites.
You wrote:
“Clarke said in the passage of her comments on health care legislation that appears to have been written for her by the industry which is not, I don’t think, a major employer in her district.”
Of course someone else wrote her text.
