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The WP business section observes that due to a provision in the AOL employee stock plan, employees can be fully vested in their stock options one year after any change of ownership that leaves AOL shareholders with less than 60 percent of the company.
Moreover, I now have a vested interest in this matter--I've spent about seven years with this lady now--so I want to be objective in my prognostications.
Do they have a vested interest in the status quo?
Critics on the right dismissed the tour as a simplistic photo op, and Peter Edelman, a former Clinton official who quit to protest the 1996 welfare reform, called it cosmetic, arguing that Clinton "cannot admit the extent of the problem because his Administration has a vested interest in the notion that welfare reform has been a success."
Although blame for this development is ordinarily pinned on states like California, greedy for attention, that have front-end-loaded the primary system, the media themselves are also to blame, along with political consultants, pollsters, and so on, all of whom have a vested interest in the "permanent campaign" (a concept used in a book title, if not actually invented, by Sidney Blumenthal, but not necessarily invalid for that reason alone).