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...President Obama has slammed it for "completely false" ads against his proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and the White House has increased its efforts to seek out CEOs directly and marginalize the Chamber. Major Fortune 500 players Nike, Apple, Exelon and PG & E, recently quit the organization (or its board) because of its "extreme rhetoric and obstructionist tactics" on global warming, as Nike put it in a letter. The Chamber has spent $17 million on the health-care debate, more than any other organization, but may end up losing its fight to keep any form of public option from ending...
...brick wall to government action," argues Hilary Rosen, a partner at the Brunswick Group, a communications firm, who served as Chairman and CEO of the trade organization the Recording Industry Association of America from 1998-2003. "In leadership positions, you see a wave and you want to get on board to help shape it and instead I think he is looking at a wave and is trying to stop it." (See the best business deals...
...This is obviously a turbulent time for legal markets across the board from large multinational law firms to public interest jobs, and also government jobs,” Minow said...
...What's not clear is how much he knows about my district. He showed up for just one debate, citing scheduling conflicts on other occasions. In an interview with the editorial board of my old employer, the Watertown Daily Times, Hoffman was asked about a new super-highway that had been proposed years ago for the district but needs federal funding. No opinion. Where did he stand on the controversial idea of dredging the St. Lawrence River, which forms the district's border with Canada? No comment. A subsequent editorial in the Daily Times described Hoffman as "flustered...
...It’s highly unusual that one of the presidential candidates does not come from the executive board,” Flores said. “[Furthermore] there’s no women, there’s two social club candidates [Bowman and Zhang], no one’s really an insider except [Hysen], and there are two first semester UC candidates. It should be a fascinating election...