John Podesta, co-chairman of Obama's transition team
Posted on 10/12/2011 5:52:20 AM PDT by opentalk
'Green' firm with White House ties lined up to get massive guarantee
The sister-in-law of John Podesta, President Obama's influential White House transition director, served as the lobbyist for a wind power firm that was just awarded a $135.8 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.
The company is Brookfield Asset Management. It boasts a board of nine directors, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's long-term girlfriend. The Energy Department's promise to Brookfield marks the latest in controversial massive alternative energy loans to companies with strong ties to the Obama White House and to top Democrat lawmakers.
...Since 2009, Brookfield has been represented by the lobby firm Heather Podesta and Partners, LLC.
Podesta, a top financial bundler for Democrat politicians, is wife of lobbyist and art collector, Tony Podesta, who is the brother of John Podesta.
John Podesta is director of the Center for American Progress, which is reportedly highly influential in helping to craft White House policy.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the lobbying game is a sure path to wealth. It’s built in to our system to do just that, and it works perfectly. Coupled with the ravenous need for campaign funds, and you get what we have: Government for Sale.
John Podesta, co-chairman of Obama's transition team
I really really really despise these people.
Isn’t there a list compiled of all these ‘thank you notes’ with names attached? I want them on scroll in a public service ad. Better yet, roll them out on posters for the OWC crowd. How about at least printing leaflets?
And didn’t Al Gore get a few hundred million for Tesla motors (an Italian company..) for development?
If you’re inclined to get a good view of the machine that is the “Royal Left”, research John Podesta.
Another Perry corporate welfare boondoggle.
It’s understandable that a man might go into government poor but there is just no excuse in the world for him to leave that way.
from the article, these guys really know how to work and rig the system.
Heather Podesta and her husband this past July topped the FEC's lobbyist bundler database, raising more money in the six months prior than any other lobbyist by far. Their fund raising was largely for Democrats.Tony Podesta worked as a lobbyist to Egypt and Mubarak lobbying for continuous stream of US foreign aid.According to White House visitor logs, Heather Podesta visited the White House eight times in Obama's first six months alone.
Key White House ally lobbies on behalf of Egyptian regime
His lobbyist trio was paid $1.7 million a year by Egypt,.. Egypt’s heavy-hitters include Tony Podesta, who has visited the White House at least 12 times during the Obama presidency
Half of Congress sleeps with a lobbyist every night - either a spouse or a date.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302381_3.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/huma-abedin-pictures_n_872537.html#s288677
The people who attack Herman Cain's position that anyone can make it in America need to examine the lefts magnificent orgy and passion to be Royals, Czars and always above the unwashed masses to whom they throw their benevolent crumbs scratched off the bread stolen from the middle class. The Demcratic Party is all that the accuse Republicans of ...and much much more. They are masters of deceiving their base.
Masters, indeed.
More tha foibles of fascists, tactics of totalitarians, schemes of socialists.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Heather Podesta, a Storm in the Summer of the Lobbyist
With front-burner legislation making this a busy summer for lobbyists, Heather Podesta pauses in her office by a picture of her husband
..."This is a very good time to be a Democratic lobbyist . . . it's incredibly exciting to be able to engage with Democrats and really see things happen," Podesta says one afternoon at her office in one of those cool, restored red-brick buildings on E Street. "It's always a good time to be Heather Podesta."
...There's so much work, in fact, that certain painful sacrifices are required. The couple used to escape to the beloved retreat they own in Venice 10 or 12 times a year, but "now we only maybe get there six times a year," Heather Podesta says. Leaving Washington doesn't always really mean leaving Washington.
In Venice they've hosted, among others, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, though she was a mere governor back then, and hung with, by Podesta's count, something like 20 members of Congress (Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley, New York Rep. Eliot Engel, even Teddy Kennedy).
Asbsolutely. But each side (including us) will piss and moan when the other side does it, and shut our pieholes when our side does it. It’s a tidy system.
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