Minority Party's Stock Is Rising:K St. Anticipates Democratic Gains

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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.


"We've seen a noticeable shift," said Beth Solomon, director of the Washington office of Christian & Timbers, an executive search firm that helps to place senior lobbyists and trade association heads.

In June, one of Washington's largest lobbying law firms, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP, transferred the chairmanship of its government affairs practice from a Republican, Thomas F. O'Neil III, to a prominent Democrat, James J. Blanchard, a former governor and congressman from Michigan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601598.html

[Nevernose]

1. Lobbyists are the only time I approve of the Death Penalty

In fact, screw the death penalty. Drag 'em out into the street and shoot 'em. Fuck the corporate money that has turned our political system into a whorehouse.

If a group of individual citizens has something to talk about, like unions or environmental groups or even many conservative groups like the NRA, then fine. As long as they do their talking with words and not money. It's when rich elitist assholes get together to buy a politician that I have a serious problem.

[TomInTib]

2. This may be a bell-weather moment, and if the rats are deserting

a sinking ship, we must pay attention. Let the rats lobby us and give us their money, and then let us act in the best interest of the majority of people of this country - not the wealthiest .001 percent who currently control our lives while they count their billions.

Ms.Tomintib.