{"id":6279,"date":"2022-07-10T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/the-uber-campaign-how-ex-obama-aides-helped-sell-firm-to-world\/"},"modified":"2022-07-10T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:36:09","slug":"the-uber-campaign-how-ex-obama-aides-helped-sell-firm-to-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/the-uber-campaign-how-ex-obama-aides-helped-sell-firm-to-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uber campaign: how ex-Obama aides helped sell firm to world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber sought access to leaders, officials and diplomats through David Plouffe and Jim Messina, leak shows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign\">Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a Sunday afternoon in early November 2015 when David Plouffe emailed his fellow former Barack Obama campaigner Matthew Barzun, typing \u201cMr ambassador\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n<p>Plouffe was working for Uber, and Barzun had been rewarded for his fundraising efforts for the US president with the plum job of American ambassador to the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/uber-campaign-how-ex-obama-aides-helped-sell-firm-to-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab721228f62786637cfd1aaefe1434b0b98bdc2d\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e8eef740d7ed0a4b694f7cf7132a28c\" title=\"The Uber campaign: how ex-Obama aides helped sell firm to world\" \/>Uber sought access to leaders, officials and diplomats through David Plouffe and Jim Messina, leak shows<br \/>\nUber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals<br \/>\nIt was a Sunday afternoon in early November 2015 when David Plouffe emailed his fellow former Barack Obama campaigner Matthew Barzun, typing \u201cMr ambassador\u201d in the subject line.<br \/>\nPlouffe was working for Uber, and Barzun had been rewarded for his fundraising efforts for the US president with the plum job of American ambassador to the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber sought access to leaders, officials and diplomats through David Plouffe and Jim Messina, leak shows Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals It was a Sunday afternoon in early November 2015 when David Plouffe emailed his fellow former Barack Obama campaigner Matthew Barzun, typing \u201cMr ambassador\u201d in the subject &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/the-uber-campaign-how-ex-obama-aides-helped-sell-firm-to-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Uber campaign: how ex-Obama aides helped sell firm to world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}