BP Hires Dick Cheney’s Press Secretary, Anne Womack-Kolton

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BP Hires Dick Cheney’s Press Secretary, Anne Womack-Kolton
By Brad Johnson at 10:45 am

Under threat of receivership and criminal investigation for its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, foreign oil giant BP has hired a former top aide for Vice President Dick Cheney to be their new spokeswoman. Anne Womack-Kolton has been hired to be “head of U.S. media relations.” A rising star in the Bush-Cheney White House since the 2000 campaign, Womack-Kolton served as Cheney’s press secretary during the 2004 election before running public affairs in the Bush Department of Energy:

“Back in 2001-02 Anne Womack-Kolton defended Cheney’s secret energy task force,” Daily Kos contributor RL Miller writes. Cheney’s energy group met with several BP representatives, including a private meeting between Cheney and BP CEO John Browne. In 2007 Browne retired from BP “after lying to a court about his relationship with another man.”

With its stock spiralling, BP hired her away from the Brunswick Group, the international communications and crisis management firm which BP has been paying to “craft its public response to the spill.” Womack-Kolton joined the Brunswick Group in 2007 to manage “high stakes communications surrounding public affairs issues and political risk management for domestic and global corporate clients.”

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/01/bp-cheney-spokeswoman/

[Mist]

1. 'Cause better PR will fix everything. I actually think these corpo-loons believe that. nt

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2. you just know snake cheney is lurking/working in the shadows

got to keep that money flowing into his pockets