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Hillary Clinton critic David Sirota’s ties to Bernie Sanders not disclosed to IBT readers

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David Sirota, as reported in Florida Politics this week, is a Democratic operative turned political reporter for the International Business Times. Among his various political campaign roles, Sirota, 39, also served as an aide to current Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. But few readers of the Times would know that, even while Sirota penned or co-wrote nearly a dozen stories since April critical of Hillary Clinton – Sanders’ primary rival for the Democratic nomination. As noted by Eddie Scarry of the…

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For David Sirota and Andrew Perez — fierce critics of Jeb Bush — partisan attacks negate the message

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The medium is the message. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase in 1964, one that is just as effective a half-century later. In the 2016 presidential race, recent criticism of Jeb Bush’s tenure as Florida governor leads to a compelling question – when does a messenger overshadow his or her message? The answer is when the messengers are two deeply embedded Democratic operatives — David Sirota and Andrew Perez — each seemingly with the means and motive to blast a top-tier…

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Backers of Jeb Bush nonprofit include banks, schools, lottery

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Big-time donors to a nonprofit educational group founded by Jeb Bush, disclosed for the first time Wednesday, highlight the intersection between Bush’s roles in the worlds of business, policy and politics years before he began running for president. Bush provided the names to The Associated Press. After leaving the Florida governor’s office in 2007, Bush formed the Foundation for Excellence in Education, with a mission “to build an American education system that equips every child to achieve their God-given potential.”…

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Jeb Bush served on board of Florida timber firm facing lawsuits

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In a public move presaging his run for the White House, Jeb Bush resigned from corporate positions at the end of last year. Less noticed: One of the companies where he served on the board, Florida timber company Rayonier Inc., faced a flurry of lawsuits not long before his exit. One case alleges that a plant in Georgia violated the Clean Water Act and contaminated the Altamaha River, and five other suits from investors contend the company made false and…

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