Lobbying

GM Employees Asked to Drive Bailout Lobbying

by Diane Farsetta — November 13, 2008 - 7:21pm

"General Motors, teetering on the brink of insolvency, has taken the extraordinary step of calling on employees and dealers to personally urge lawmakers to approve another loan package that might keep the beleaguered automaker from going under," reports Wired.com. GM North America president Troy Clarke emailed 29,000 employees, "Your elected officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is critical. ...

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Wired.com blog "Autopia," November 12, 2008

Lobbyists, Register with the President

by Sheldon Rampton — November 9, 2008 - 11:49pm

"President-elect Obama is already backing off his pledge not to hire any lobbyists to serve in his administration," reports Shawn Zeller.

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Congressional Quarterly, November 6, 2008

Change, of a Limited Sort, Comes to K Street

by Diane Farsetta — November 5, 2008 - 3:17pm

"Washington's $3 billion lobbying industry has begun shedding Republican staffers, snapping up Democratic operatives and entire firms, a shift that started even before Tuesday's ballots were counted," reports the Wall Street Journal.

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), November 5, 2008

Fitz-Pegado Among the New Lobbyists for a "Democratic Iran"

by Diane Farsetta — October 22, 2008 - 6:00pm

The Livingston Group, a lobbying and PR firm, "received a healthy $300K during the third period," or third quarter of 2008, from the Council for a Democratic Iran. The website of the Virginia-based group states, "We believe there is an alternative between military confrontation with the current regime and accommodation." According to Lobbyists.info, the group previously retained the firm Cyber Security Research Consultants.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), October 22, 2008

DCI Group's Stealth Campaign Torpedoed Freddie Mac Reform

by John Stauber — October 20, 2008 - 9:16am

Pete Yost reports that "Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.

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Associated Press, October 20, 2008

Johns Hopkins Make Reports Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

by Diane Farsetta — October 2, 2008 - 2:04pm

As part of a broader public relations and lobbying push, Kazakhstan's government paid Johns Hopkins University to author three reports about the country. The arrangement was brokered through APCO Worldwide, Kazakhstan's Washington DC lobbying firm.

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ABC News, September 29, 2008

Energy Front Group Calls for Investigation of Environmentalists

by Diane Farsetta — October 2, 2008 - 12:00pm

Americans for American Energy (AAE), an energy front group established by the public relations firm Pac/West Communications, asked Congress to investigate "possible illegal coordination between U.S.

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Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), September 25, 2008

Is This a Job for the Ethically Challenged?

by Bob Burton — September 23, 2008 - 9:22am

The Louisiana Senate has appointed former veteran Hill & Knowlton (H&K) lobbyist and Democratic congressional aide Gary Hymel to the Louisiana Board of Ethics. The board's role is to "interpret and enforce" ethical standards for the state's government employees and electoral campaign finance and lobbyist disclosure laws. "I have seen the government from a lot of different angles," Hymel said.

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The Advocate (Louisiana), September 20, 2008

Climate Changers Go Lobbying

by Bob Burton — September 23, 2008 - 7:17am

The UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, a group hosted by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Industry, has written to British political leaders requesting a meeting to discuss the development of a "comprehensive package of policy measures to change every major sector of the economy" to combat

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The Guardian (UK), September 19, 2008

PickensPlan Pushed by Patton Boggs

by Bob Burton — September 22, 2008 - 6:43am

In July, oil industry figure T. Boone Pickens launched the PickensPlan to promote "energy independence" from "foreign oil" for the United States. In the plan, Pickens promotes the use of wind power to generate 20 percent of U.S. electricity, and natural gas and biofuels for transportation. Pickens now has business interests from funds management, water projects and the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.

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O'Dwyers PR Daily (sub req'd), September 19, 2008
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