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...what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, ?Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...
...built on a core group of fund raisers called Pioneers who each brought in $100,000. Instead of disbanding the group after Bush won, Oliver nurtured it. After victories by Ronald Reagan and the first Bush, "we left people alone for a couple of years," says a G.O.P. lobbyist, who noted that Oliver "made people feel they were part of a network that never ended." If your kid needed a photo with the President, Oliver made it happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference call and e-mail and rallied them for the midterm election, writing gracious...
Senior Director for Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey, Harvard’s top lobbyist in Washington, says he ran into Sharon Ladd, Director of the Harvard International Office (HIO), a few days after Sept...
Even by the standards of hardball lobbying, it's a startling claim: suicides will surge if a bill to restrain Medicaid spending on prescription drugs is passed. But that's what one lobbyist for Eli Lilly said to Minnesota state Rep. Fran Bradley's face recently. "My phone has rung off the hook with people telling me I'm going to cause a severalfold increase in suicides," said Bradley, a Republican who previously won awards from state mental-health advocates for his progressive legislation...
...University’s senior lobbyist said that restrictive legislation tops his agenda...