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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new GOP whip let a lobbyist sit in on job interviews for his staff
http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/5/5972917/steve-scalise-lobbyist-job-interviews?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_name=share-button&utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=article-share-topThe new GOP whip let a lobbyist sit in on job interviews for his staff
Updated by Andrew Prokop on August 5, 2014, 7:20 p.m. ET
Steve Scalise, the new House Majority Whip (R-LA), let a lobbyist sit in during his office's job interviews for potential staffers, report Politico's Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman. The lobbyist John Feehery of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a former House GOP aide participated in the interviews as well. "Several ethics lawyers and current and former leadership aides said they have never heard of a similar arrangement," the authors write. The interviews were to fill the role of communications director. Head over to Politico for the whole story.
It may seem a rather tone-deaf start to the Scalise era, but he could be sending exactly the message he wants to send to lobbyists. When Scalise took over the House Republican Study Committee at the end of 2012, a staffer there had recently written a report advocating copyright reform a report the committee quickly retracted after pressure from industry. On taking over, Scalise let the staffer go, reportedly at the request of lobbyists.
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The new GOP whip let a lobbyist sit in on job interviews for his staff (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2014
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Lobbyist attending Congress should wear badges identifying themselves as lobbyists, Utah did it.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#1
Better yet they should wear uniforms showing which corporations sponsor them like NASCAR
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#2
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Lobbyist attending Congress should wear badges identifying themselves as lobbyists, Utah did it.
And the politicians should wear badges with their major corporate donors identified.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)2. Better yet they should wear uniforms showing which corporations sponsor them like NASCAR
racers.
bluedigger
(17,090 posts)3. Normal business for a LA pol.
It's not like we didn't know he was in their pocket.
Why hide it?
enough
(13,270 posts)4. k&r (nt)