Lobbying

"Fixers" Fail to Keep Mortgage Execs' Parachutes Golden

by Diane Farsetta — September 15, 2008 - 12:25pm

After taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the U.S.

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Muckety.com, September 11, 2008

Chesapeake's Gas-Powered News

by Diane Farsetta — September 9, 2008 - 11:41am

Faced with "public complaints about its new drilling in an urban area" -- Fort Worth, Texas -- the natural gas company Chesapeake Energy is about to launch its own "brand-new media source," Shale.tv. The online video channel will be produced by "three Dallas-area former journalists," and is named after the Barnett Shale natural gas formation in North Texas.

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Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, September 4, 2008

Canadian Lobbyists Apply Elbow Grease to U.S. Democrats

by Diane Farsetta — September 8, 2008 - 11:55am

"If you don't like the oil sands oil, what companies will do [in Canada] is build a bigger pipeline to the west coast and export it to China and India," warned a lobbyist for Nexen Energy, which has "major investments" in the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada. He was attending the U.S.

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Inter Press Service News, September 2, 2008

Colombia Still Pushing on Trade Agreement

by Diane Farsetta — September 2, 2008 - 4:11pm

The Colombian government will pay U.S. lobbyist Andrew J. Samet another $45,000, "to present Colombia's track record on labor issues to Congress, non-governmental organizations and labor unions." The new contract is similar to Samet's earlier work to push the U.S.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), September 2, 2008

How the Gun Lobby Beat Activists to the Draw

by Diane Farsetta — July 31, 2008 - 3:53pm

Readers of the book "Toxic Sludge Is Good for You" may remember the name Mary Lou Sapone -- a corporate spy who, while secretly in the employ of U.S. Surgical, infiltrated animal rights groups.

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Mother Jones, July 30, 2008

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

by Diane Farsetta — July 30, 2008 - 1:36pm

It's an "open secret of lobbying," writes Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Public relations firms regularly solicit authors of opinion-page articles, draft the pieces for them and place the articles in publications where they will have the most impact -- all for a fee." Recently, an op-ed criticizing a bill that would reduce credit card fees appeared in Southern newspapers, attributed to Charles Steele Jr., the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

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Washington Post, July 29, 2008

Pushing Prescriptions

by Sheldon Rampton — July 25, 2008 - 12:50am

"Washington's largest lobby, the pharmaceutical industry, racked up another banner year on Capitol Hill in 2007, backed by a record $168 million lobbying effort," reports M. Asif Ismail.

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Center for Public Integrity, June 24, 2008

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Hire 'Em

by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 23, 2008 - 5:31pm

Daniel Troy served as chief counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2001 to 2004. Starting September 2, 2008, he will be head counsel for the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd) July 23, 2008
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