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Robert Blackwill, the top White House advisor on Iraq, "has taken a lobbying post at Barbour Griffith & Rogers three months prior to slated elections there," reports O'Dwyer's.
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"After convincing Election Day wins ... Republican leaders can continue to try to repopulate Washington's famous lobbying corridor," K Street, "with their brethren," reports The Hill.
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Syngenta Crop Protection hired the Alston & Bird firm, and enlisted former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, to lobby promoting the safety of atrazine, a herbicide linked to cancer and frog deformities that's been banned in the European Union. Sygenta spent $260,000 lobbying the U.S.
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"Washington lobbyists are being deployed in droves to tight congressional races and presidential battleground states around the country," reports The Hill. "Both parties have been recruiting," but some Republican officials have set "participation quotas, requiring [firms] to supply a certain number of volunteers." The pressure is high; "People who didn't go may be looked on negatively" after the election, said one lobbyist.
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"California's initiative laws, initially passed to thwart corporate influence in politics, now facilitate just the opposite," writes Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser. Proposition 72, "an initiative that would require large and medium-sized business owners to give health benefits to their workers," is opposed by McDonald's, Burger King, Best Buy, Target and other fast food and big box companies.
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"When federal regulators started to scrutinize the safety record of dietary supplements sold by Metabolife International Inc., the company turned to the influential Washington lobbying and law shop of Patton Boggs. ...
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"Every administration has the revolving door," said former Environmental Protection Agency attorney Bruce Buckheit. "The difference is the attitude that a lot of the Bush people brought with them. ...
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Believing that "political contributions help with all sorts of clients, not just those for which the firm does public affairs work," Qorvis Communications recently set up its own political action committee.
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If cable TV subscribers paid for just the channels they watch ("a la carte"), instead of paying a flat fee for channel packages, it would "jeopardize an economic model that has helped the industry maintain huge profits." The Center for Public Integrity reports on "a highly sophisticated lobbying campaign" by the cable industry to build anti-a la carte "astroturf." Some of the "seemingly disinterested
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"A trade association that represents competitors of the large regional telephone companies" had their lobbying plan "published by mistake on the Federal Communications Commission's Web site." The Association for Local Telecommunication Services's (ALTS) lobbying plan "starkly criticized the policy positions of FCC members and lawmakers and described the need for the association to hire, for $120,000 a year, a 'heavyweight Republican [lobbyist] that can navigate between the FCC chairman and the White House.'" The plan also said "ALTS has 'he
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