Brad Blog's Winter Patriot kicking ass on lobbyist working for Diebold

[MelissaB]

Blogged by Winter Patriot on 8/14/2005 @ 12:13pm PT...

Lobbyist Working For Diebold Also Works For Against Mayor's Office!!
Tetris Group Helped Get Diebold Machines Into UT; SLC Mayor's Office 'Frustrated'
and it's all 'legal' -- mayor says it depends on the definition of lobbying

Or maybe it depends on whay you mean by "is" ... Guest blogged by Winter Patriot Here's a chilling story from Salt Lake City, which one of our friends noticed...

Or maybe it depends on whay you mean by "is" ...

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

Here's a chilling story from Salt Lake City, which one of our friends noticed at The Salt Lake Tribune. It's the kind of tale that Brad eats for breakfast, but for me it's the sort of thing I gag on.

I don't mean "gag" in the way you might think, that the overwhelming nature of the sleaze takes away my appetite. Instead, I mean: Brad would be able to understand all this -- and explain it to you -- a lot better than I can. But he's away -- the slacker! -- and so it falls to this lowly and nearly frozen blogger...

I've read the article, Lobbyist challenged on voting machines: Legal. But ethical? S.L. County's lobbying firm also works for the devices' manufacturer, several times, and the words of Derek P. Jensen are finally starting to seep into my very thick skull. I'm even starting to get a handle on the cast of characters! Listen:

More: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001697.htm

From the Salt Lake Tribune

Lobbyist challenged on voting machines
Legal. But ethical? S.L. County's lobbying firm also works for the devices' manufacturer

By Derek P. Jensen

The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake County leaders continue to unleash a litany of complaints about the $10 million load of fancy electronic voting machines they must use by next year.

Problem is, the county's own powerful lobbying firm, The Tetris Group, helped do the deal.

Turns out, Tetris doubles as a lobbyist for Diebold Election Systems, whose touch-screen voting machines the firm helped prod the state to buy.

Tetris' role is not a legal violation. But the relationship is raising questions of a possible conflict, particularly given the cost.

More of this interesting tale: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2941848

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1. more Rethuglican family values n/t

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2. Winter Patriot Rocks (is he here?)

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