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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI see that Ms. Landrieu got a new job.
SEN. MARY LANDRIEU, AFTER PUSHING FOR KEYSTONE XL, JOINS TRANSCANADA LOBBYING FIRM
The law firm Van Ness Feldman announced today that former Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who lost her reelection bid last year, will be joining the company to help run its lobbying division and focus on energy issues.
Landrieu joins the firm after pushing aggressively for energy-related policy goals that overlapped with Van Ness Feldmans clients. In November of last year, Landrieu helped force a vote to approve the Keystone XL, the controversial tar sands pipeline owned by Transcanada, a firm represented by Van Ness Feldman.
Landrieu also worked to expedite the approval of liquified natural gas export terminals, another contentious issue. Landrieu sponsored legislation to expedite the LNG approval process and specifically pushed for individual projects, including the Sempra Cameron LNG facility in Louisiana. Van Ness Feldman has a large practice on LNG issues and lobbied for approval of several LNG export terminals, including the Sempra facility touted by Landrieu.
I am proud to join Van Ness Feldman, Landrieu said in a statement released by the firm. I have always respected the firm and worked closely with them during my 18 years in the Senate, she noted. Their substantive and sophisticated approach to important public policy issues in the areas of energy, the environment and natural resources was a major factor in my decision making process.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/26/sen-mary-landrieu-pushing-keystone-xl-joins-transcanada-lobbying-firm/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Not just the CEOs, but the rank and file oil rig workers, oil company secretaries, drivers, repair people, etc. That industry is responsible for a SHITLOAD of jobs in her state.
It's a topic she knows--she had to know it to relate to the voters, she's got connections, they hired her for just that reason.
I am not a fossil fuel fan, mind you, but would you be surprised if Bernie Sanders retired and went to work for a farming or dairy lobby? Or Tom Harkin decided to lobby for the CORN people?
People go for what they know. And people hire them for that, too.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)tobacco.
central scrutinizer
(11,617 posts)Or is this part of the bribes?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Or else it's payment for services rendered.
Either way, she's set for life.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)could stay in office. More bad advice.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I remember a few "kick the can down the road until she gets in, and then lower the boom and say hell no" posts, but I don't remember anyone actually supporting Keystone. Maybe I missed it.
Takket
(21,425 posts)progressoid
(49,827 posts)a kennedy
(29,467 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Lots of DUers were screaming that I needed to support a "Democrat"... yeah like she was.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Hmm. I don't know about that.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)An honest politician is one that stays bought.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He's wrong on choice, he's wrong on health care, he's wrong on Social Security, and he will be dead wrong on Supreme Court nominees.
Landrieu was right on all those issues.
But hey--you showed HER, didn't ya!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)They had to cajole Landrieu to vote for the Insurance Act remember?
MADem
(135,425 posts)though, by leaps and bounds.
I just don't understand all the HARRUMPHING about her. Like she got some kind of "comeuppance" when in actual fact she gets a great pension, a great payday from her new bosses, a good bit of additional income if she a) writes a book; b) hits the speaker's circuit, and she doesn't have to put up with any bullshit from the Purity Brigade. SHE wins. WE lost when she wasn't re-elected.
I'd rather have her ass in a Senate seat than that jerk who won the election.
I don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. There was never going to be anyone further to the left of her getting elected in a state-wide contest. Hell, Katrina cleared out a shitload of people who vote for our team--many scattered hither and yon, and many didn't come back.
NOLA's loss is Houston's gain, I guess.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)He IS, dammit....he IS!!!!!!
He's laughing all the way to the bank, is what he's doing....
n2doc
(47,953 posts)But karma, lady, karma. I do hope for that.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)So here it goes SURPRISE!!!!
xocet
(3,870 posts)...
I am proud to join Van Ness Feldman. I have always respected the firm and worked closely with them during my 18 years in the Senate. Their substantive and sophisticated approach to important public policy issues in the areas of energy, the environment and natural resources was a major factor in my decision making process. It is a bipartisan firm that has its roots in the Congress itself, being founded in 1977 by four senior counsels of key House and Senate legislative committees. I look forward to being part of the Van Ness Feldman team to help businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations achieve solutions for the wide range of challenges they face, said Landrieu.
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http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150526005968/en/Van-Ness-Feldman-Welcomes-Senator-Mary-Landrieu#.VWTizkZ0eSp
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Digusting.
project_bluebook
(411 posts)who wants to participate in a fascist corpocracy.
spanone
(135,636 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)we know what they are. All that's left is haggling over the price.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)another politician shilling for a firm, then "working" for them as a lobbyist...I thought VNF had already bribed...uhh, paid...her while she was screwing the American people...
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)If they vote like Republicans, they are for all practical purposes Republicans.
Piss off, Ms. Landrieu. I knew she was a poser all along.
locks
(2,012 posts)were able to elect only one Dem statewide and were glad to be able to support Mary Landrieu who voted with Obama and the Dems on almost every issue. Since she lost, Louisiana has been represented by some of the worst Repugs in Congress and one of the worst Repug governors in the US.
This is not to condone Mary's choice to work for one of the worst Big Oil corporations in the world. But we need to remember that Susan Rice, her husband, and the Clintons all had ties to Transcanada.
MBS
(9,688 posts)and the real-life alternatives presented to Louisiana voters. (If you're in a Dem bubble of, say, western MA, you may not understand that Landrieu, for all her ickiness, is still better than the Republican alternative: but Louisiana voters can now appreciate the difference, if they didn't before)
All that said, no surprise about Landrieu's next career move.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Nothing but the best for our retiring pols. gotta make sure they can stay off the public dole....They get a private dole...