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Democrats' Stock Is Rising on K Street
Washington Post ^ | 8-17-06 | Jeffrey H. Birnbaum

Posted on 08/16/2006 10:10:34 PM PDT by seutonius1234

Washington lobbying firms, trade associations and corporate offices are moving to hire more well-connected Democrats in response to rising prospects that the opposition party will wrest control of at least one chamber of Congress from Republicans in the November elections.

In what lobbyists are calling a harbinger of possible upheaval on Capitol Hill, many who make a living influencing government have gone from mostly shunning Democrats to aggressively recruiting them as lobbyists over the past six months or so.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 109th; congress; govwatch; k; kstreet; lobbying; lobbyists
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To: Crazieman

troll thread alert!


21 posted on 08/16/2006 10:40:35 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: 308MBR

They can fire them just as quickly as they can hire them too.


22 posted on 08/17/2006 2:57:56 AM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: seutonius1234

K street is famous for its loby offices. Lobyists are just one step below bottom sucking lawyers.
A.C.L.U. lawyers, lawyers and lobyists all should be stoned in the village square.


23 posted on 08/17/2006 3:18:05 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: seutonius1234

MSM propaganda plant.


24 posted on 08/17/2006 4:06:29 AM PDT by rod1
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To: GeronL

If you want our politicians to be pure, you are not in politics but in something else, like a fantasy world.


25 posted on 08/17/2006 12:47:05 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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