Friday, July 02, 2004
Pushing back
In a sign of the country swinging back toward the good guys, the Washington Post has a piece on K Street hiring Democrats.
Despite the threats and pressure by guys like Grover Norquist and other GOPers, K Street is prognosticating that the Dems are back in vogue. Several major firms have hired Democrats for big time positions for lobbying.
This is incredibly relevant given the hammer push by conservatives in the last decade to force the hand of K Street to hire only Republicans or suffer the consequences. Grover Norquist ( head of Americans for Tax Reform) is especially pissed off at the hiring of Dan Glickman for the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences job. According to Kevin Drum, Norquist's response was,
K Street Project spokesman Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, fumed that the Glickman hiring was "a mistake. It's goofy. It's a studied insult." The Motion Picture Association's "ability to work with the House and Senate is greatly reduced because they've decided to hire a guy whose claim to fame is that he is a retired Clinton hire," Norquist said.
Drum also recommends reading this for anyone who wants to see how the GOP has played ruthless hardball on this.
I'd heard before about the GOP pushing hard to have only their guys hired by K Street. I'm heartened to see companies pushing back.
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Despite the threats and pressure by guys like Grover Norquist and other GOPers, K Street is prognosticating that the Dems are back in vogue. Several major firms have hired Democrats for big time positions for lobbying.
This is incredibly relevant given the hammer push by conservatives in the last decade to force the hand of K Street to hire only Republicans or suffer the consequences. Grover Norquist ( head of Americans for Tax Reform) is especially pissed off at the hiring of Dan Glickman for the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences job. According to Kevin Drum, Norquist's response was,
K Street Project spokesman Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, fumed that the Glickman hiring was "a mistake. It's goofy. It's a studied insult." The Motion Picture Association's "ability to work with the House and Senate is greatly reduced because they've decided to hire a guy whose claim to fame is that he is a retired Clinton hire," Norquist said.
Drum also recommends reading this for anyone who wants to see how the GOP has played ruthless hardball on this.
I'd heard before about the GOP pushing hard to have only their guys hired by K Street. I'm heartened to see companies pushing back.
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