Former NJ Governor/EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and aides start consulting firm

Former governor and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Whitman and four of her former aides launched a consulting firm yesterday that will be based in New Jersey and have international reach, Whitman said.

The Somerset County-based firm, Whitman Strategy Group, will specialize in environmental issues, but is prepared to advise corporations and countries on everything from energy to international negotiations to homeland security.

"We're interested in trying to use our knowledge, experience and contacts to help businesses and governments do the right thing," Whitman said in a phone interview.

Her partners are Jane Kenny, Jessica Furey, Eileen McGinnis and Susan Spencer Mulvaney, all former top aides of Whitman when she was both governor and EPA administrator.

The firm will have offices in Peapack-Gladstone and Washington, D.C. So far it has no clients, but Whitman said "some businesses and couple of countries have asked us to talk to them."

She said two of the countries, which she declined to name, had water problems, one of which involved saltwater intrusion into a drinking-water supply. Without naming any potential corporate clients, she said the company could help businesses be better corporate citizens, or even assist them with technical problems such as emissions or chemical production.

I heard Whitless on the John Gambling show this morning where she was her old sanctimonious self saying that it wasn't the pro-life voters who pushed the President into victory and that it was the moderate "pro-choice" republicans (like herself) who decided the election. She further went on to say that President Bush didn't win by a big margin that it was smaller than the Truman- Dewey election which is why the party should move towards the middle.

The Star Ledger link is good for 2 weeks.

"We're interested in trying to use our knowledge, experience and contacts to ~~help businesses and governments do the right thing~~ make us a ton of money," Whitman said in a phone interview.

2 posted on 12/14/2004 9:46:22 PM PST by Enterprise (The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)

It costs a lot to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her husband's $4 million per yr. salary probably isn't enough.

3 posted on 12/14/2004 10:13:50 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)

"she said the company could help businesses be better corporate citizens, "

Sheesh, with talk like that, she could play Good Cop/Bad Cop with the Greenpeace Marxists and split the consulting fee.

Her talk of pro-death Republicans re: Bush '04 is positioning herself to be a good Moderate and get trendy/PC/Lefty consulting gigs.

4 posted on 12/14/2004 10:28:38 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (FREE people needn't apply to a Government of/by/for the People for a gun (PERSONAL PROPERTY) permit!)

she's just another liberal in my book, I wish she would switch parties

5 posted on 01/02/2005 7:15:04 PM PST by Coleus (Let us pray for the 125,000 + victims of the tsunami and the 126,000 aborted Children killed daily)

A better name for her firm would be "Rinos R Us ".

Her comment about the effect of pro death Republicans in the President's reelection is a bald faced lie.

6 posted on 01/02/2005 7:18:01 PM PST by exit82 (Iran and Syria......the bombing should have started five minutes ago.)

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