My title addition should read:
(biggest lobbying firm getting bigger)
“.....but you have made it a den of thieves”
What happened to Blow?
...this is a great example of how Washington is in-bred...Patton-Boggs is headed up by Hale Boggs Jr, son of the late Congressman Hale Boggs and his wife Lindy Boggs, who herself served in Congress....he’s also the brother of Cokie Roberts who used to spout the Lefty line on PBS...I guess the point I’m trying to make here is people that go to Washington stay on and on, as do their children and grandchildren ect....it’s a whole ruling class all to itself...and with them there is really only one party....the party of incumbancy.
As much as most around here love to diss him, Ross Perot was right about those lobbyist in “thousand dollar suits and Gucci shoes”. He’s the only one who ever effectively shone the light on the cockroaches and the revolving door.
But maybe these are some of the more ‘ethical’ lobbyists. There is a pretty impressive list of sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and even spouses of sitting members of Congress who are also in the lobbying business.
“former Louisiana Senator John Breaux and former Senate Majority Trent Lott and their sons,”
This is what is wrong with our country in a nutshell. Just replace the names and the relationships with any others and it would still be as bad.
An I’ll be back bump...