Democratic leader’s affiliation with Chamber raises eyebrows

[davidinalameda]

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2005061132?pt=0


Nick Casey, chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party, is a registered legislative and administrative lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform.

Some critics are questioning Casey’s association with a national group that routinely supports Republican candidates.

Last year, the state Chamber of Commerce and West Virginia Medical Association worked together to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on television advertisements attacking incumbent Democratic Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw, who lost the election to Brent Benjamin.

[merh]

1. Damned right they better question this relationship.

The chamber has been an arm of the repukes for years. They buy they political ads that endorse the fundie candidates and promote their agendas and they don't have to report the contributions.

This guy is a psuedo dem! :argh:

[PassingFair]

2. Damn Right times 2!

Hey, if I can forgo the Chamber functions that I'm SUPPOSED to attend as a sales rep, I think our elected Dems should be able to shrug off the implied payoffs that the chambers dangle.

I told my boss that I disagreed with their politics, and he hadn't a CLUE what I was talking about. He did agree that I didn't NEED to attend, but I got a black eye (figuratively) and passed up the leads that others garner.

:puke:

[acmejack]

3. This is worse than consorting with the enemy

it is a case of being the enemy!

[remfan]

4. Manchin

Casey said he registered as a lobbyist because Gov. Joe Manchin asked him to talk to Thomas J. Donohue and other U.S. Chamber officials during the legislative session.

“They got a hold of the governor’s office and said, ‘We are going to be aggressive. You aren’t doing enough. We will eat you up.’

Much as I'd like to be pissed at Casey, the fact that Manchin, our new Dem governor, asked him to cozy up to the US Chamber of Commerce for the express purpose of pushing HIS tort reform through the legislature is what REALLY pisses me off.