Wasn't Patton, Boggs a Clinton defender law firm?
Why is their name ringing a bell?
http://www.erols.com/igoddard Tripping With the Secretary: Ron Brown's Foreign Trade Missions
“…When Ron Brown was simultaneously a partner at the preeminent Washington law and lobbying firm of Patton, Boggs and Blow and chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), he was renowned as the consummate deal-maker. By all appearances, Brown's Department of Commerce has continued to apply the art of the deal. As one Justice Department investigator put it, a corporation can "pay to play." ..”
Freeper TexMex 12/13/98 observes ".Tommy Boggs, Cokie's [Cokie Roberts] brother, has been for many years the head of the most powerful PACs/law firm in Washington and is sometimes given credit for originating the concept of political activists committees as a vehicle to circumvent campaign contribution laws.."
April 14, 1997 - The White House released a list of donors and fund-raisers who were allowed to fly on Air Force One and Two with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. In 1995 and 1996, the Clinton Administration allowed 56 contributors who donated $5,000 and more and fund-raisers raising $25,000 or more for the DNC or the Clinton-Gore campaign to fly on the taxpayer-financed Air Force jets. Among the contributors flying on Air Force One: New York businessman Maurice Templesman, labor leaders Lane Kirkland and John Sweeney, Washington lobbyist Tommy Boggs, and Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan. Numerous trips aboard Air Force One were taken by Clinton-Gore chief fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe and DNC fund-raisers Marvin Rosen, Laura Hartigan, Richard Sullivan and Scott Patrick. None of the contributors or fund-raisers were asked to pay for the costs of their airfare on Air Force One and Two for official trips.
The following article was excerpted from a private letter from Nicholas A. Guarino, former TV Host of Commodities Week, former Arkansas businessman, and editor of Wall Street Underground. .....[April 3, 1996] .....
7:20 Four hours and 20 minutes after the crash the first Croatian Special Forces search party arrives on the scene and finds only Ms. Kelly surviving...."
When Clinton was president he had 17 [Patton Boggs] people in the administration. Patton Boggs, headed by one of the most influential Washington lobbyists, Thomas Boggs, and which employs about 400 attorneys.
Lanny Davis, who left as special White House counsel in February to resume his position as a partner with the powerhouse Washington lobbying and law firm of Patton Boggs.
Rodney E. Slater, served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation since 1997, came to Patton Boggs after serving in the cabinet of President William Jefferson Clinton.
Tommy Boggs is the chief lobbist of Patton Boggs and his clients include EXXON, ARCO, B.P., MOBIL and SHELL and he is a close golfing friend of Bill Clinton.
Cokie Roberts brother is Thomas H. Boggs, Jr. He is of the law firm, Patton, Boggs, and Blow. Partner in that law firm was Ron Brown, the late Commerce Secretary.
Cokie's father, Hale Boggs, a former Democratic House Whip who was the product of a corrupt Louisiana political machine that dates back to Huey Long. Boggs was made a member of the Warren Commission.
Cokie's mother Lindy Boggs was appointed by President Clinton in 1997 as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican). She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana and in 1976, the first woman to chair a national political convention, presiding over the nomination of President Jimmy Carter.
“It’s a lot more fun to go to the movie room at the White House and watch movies with the president,” says Boggs. “Especially because Clinton used to like movies so damn much.”
Two of Boggs friends, Carl Bernstein and Tom Brokaw.
Clients...
# George Soros's Open Society Institute
# Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.[9]
# Assn of Trial Lawyers of America
Patton Boggs lobbies for such heavyweights as AOL Time Warner, Mars Corp. and Sony. Its roster of about 225 lobbying clients also includes major trade associations and state and local agencies.
Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., one of its principals, is known as a prominent Democrat. He is considered one of the capital's most well-connected and influential lobbyists.
Patton Boggs' has more than 170 registered lobbyist employees.
Partners at one of the nation's most powerful lawyer-lobbyist firms, Patton Boggs, are said to be embroiled in an internal debate over the firm's representation of Saudi Arabia.
But the real ire has been raised by a series of national radio ads produced for what is described as a coalition of Arab-American groups by Qorvis Communications, in which Patton Boggs owns a 15% stake. The ads call for Israel's "withdrawal from the Palestinian land it has unjustly occupied for years," but make no reference to the suicide bombings.