Posted on 03/09/2023 7:18:02 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Kroger is contracting with former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a lobbying push to win approval of its proposed merger with Albertsons, the company said in a press release.
Boehner, who works for law and lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs, will “provide strategic counsel” to Kroger executives and won’t register to lobby.
Squire Patton Boggs’ Tommy Andrews and David Schnittger, two former Boehner aides, and Caren Street, former chief of staff to then-Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, will lobby on Kroger’s behalf.
Kroger is hiring several well-connected lobbyists as it seeks to dissuade concerns in the nation’s capital about the $25 billion merger between two of the largest supermarket chains.
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Weepy bohener......work.....I don’t get it.
Kroger is a woke firm. Figures they would hire a GOP squish.
There’s precedent for hiring persons in the public eye with name recognition to help companies. I remember when former Detroit Tiger ace pitcher Dennis McClain joined Farmer Peet Packing Company to help them with their pension fund management and investment.
Yes, Albertson’s was my slightly less leftist alternative to Kroger. Now I don’t know what I’ll do if the merger goes through.
Boehner sat on The National Right to Work Act legislation for years. What a candy ass.
Kroger is a union company
Last I heard from Boehner, he was the Retirement Security Coalition spokesman, working to reform the Multi-employer Pension Fund crisis, a few years ago.
I used to shop at one of their subs. Dillons. Nice store but $$.
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