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Hillary Clinton stabbed Coke in the back when she endorsed Philadelphia’s plan to tax soft drinks.  Coke was royally pissed and sent her campaign a message that said, “Really??? After all we’ve done?”  Coke contributed between 5 and 10 million to the Clinton Foundation , executives contributed to Hillary’s campaign and one coke exec took a leave from Coke to work for the Clinton Foundation.  Wendy Clark, a former Coca-Cola executive, took leave from the company last year to help lead up the Clinton campaign’s marketing and social media efforts.

Hillary had said:

 “I’m very supportive of the mayor’s proposal to tax soda to get universal pre-school for kids.  We need universal pre-school, and if that’s a way to do it, that’s how we should do it.”

The tax proposal was for 3 cents per ounce, which means it would raise the cost of a case of Coke by $8.64, which is more than double the original cost.  That would cost Coke big time but fort6unately they were able to work out a deal with Clinton, whereby she would back off on the soda tax in exchange for undisclosed incentives.

From The Daily Caller:

“Initial thinking on walk back is that HRC can reiterate the importance of pre-K and when asked about funding say, ‘No community should be faced with this kind of funding decision – there should be a federal solution,’” Rumbaugh wrote.

“And, optimally we can throw support to Philly. Also, outreach is happening with Center for American Progress (re their pre-K initiative) to look for opportunity,” she continued, referring to the liberal think tank founded by Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.

Rumbaugh also remarked that the company was working with unions and surrogates to help manage the story.

TheDC reached out to Rumbaugh and Tuggle for comment. Rumbaugh said the company would be responding but did not provide comment before deadline.