Politically Connected: Ties Link Embattled Government Bank, Well-Heeled Consultants

[TheNutcracker]

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Source: The Daily Signal - Economy

Clients of a high-powered Washington consulting firm appear to have benefited from the outfit’s ties to the Export-Import Bank and the Obama administration, which wants to save the embattled federal agency.

Critics long have faulted the Export-Import Bank for helping politically connected companies secure taxpayer-backed financing. And the consultants at Albright Stonebridge Group, which is headed by a former U.S. secretary of state and bills itself as the “premier strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm,” pride themselves on making worldwide connections. The firm’s chairman and one of its namesakes is Madeleine Albright, who served as secretary of state during the Clinton administration.

Among other roles, Albright Stonebridge Group helps clients with government relations and crafts messaging plans for businesses. It is not, however, a registered lobbying firm, according to records at the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit that tracks how money and lobbying affect politics.

Carol Browner works as a senior counselor at ASG and previously served as a senior principal there. A member of the Obama-Biden transition’s advisory board, Browner was appointed to Ex-Im’s advisory committee for fiscal 2013. She was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton administration and, under President Obama, directed the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy from 2009 to 2011.

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[pnwmom]

1. The tea baggers are the critics who want the Export-Import bank to be closed. Just to put this

in context. The bank helps make US companies like Boeing competitive with the European manufacturers, which subsidize their airplanes. The bank doesn't subsidize, it provides loans -- which are paid back with interest.

Why are you posting some drivel from the right-wing Heritage Foundation?

[Andy823]

5. Good question.

Seems like more and more low count posters are showing up, posting BS like this, and then never coming back to the thread to answer questions, or even debate about what they post.

I also see some of our "long time" anti Obama crowd getting more recs when they post their daily rant about the president, or the part in general. Seems like we have been invaded by more and more right wing, or libertarian trolls who simply want to keep stirring up things and trying to pain the democratic party as the same as the republicans, and that Obama is no different than past republican presidents.

[pnwmom]

2. The Daily Signal is also a right-wing source, which is easy to see by looking at the other articles

among their headlines.

Please delete.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Ugh regarding the source.

One can even see the "Heritage Foundation" reference in the link before one even clicks it. Jim DeMint would be proud!

[OKNancy]

4. Heritage Foundation b.s.

daily signal is the propaganda arm of the right-wing Heritage foundation