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Lobbyists struggle with Trump reality
The Hill ^ | May 6, 2016 | Megan R. Wilson

Posted on 05/06/2016 8:21:46 AM PDT by C19fan

Republican lobbyists in Washington are struggling to come to grips with the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency.

“A lot of people woke up [on Wednesday] and went, 'Oh gosh. This is not a dream,’ ” said Jeff MacKinnon, a principal at Farragut Partners. “I don't think downtown was really prepared for it happening so quickly. It did catch people off guard.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gope; kstreet; lobbyists; trump
Trump sure makes the right enemies.
1 posted on 05/06/2016 8:21:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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Y'mean they're having a hard time finding a job ?

Welcome to the America they made

Can't help but chuckle at that thought

2 posted on 05/06/2016 8:22:59 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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They need to get the eff out of town and stop bribing politicians. Go find some honest work.


3 posted on 05/06/2016 8:23:11 AM PDT by Gaffer
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4 posted on 05/06/2016 8:23:55 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Viral v)
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I hope the struggle so hard that they end up giving head to a shot gun.


5 posted on 05/06/2016 8:25:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Yeah, really. The irony is rich.


6 posted on 05/06/2016 8:28:03 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: C19fan
THIS is Trump reality for lobbyists.
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7 posted on 05/06/2016 8:29:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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You mean they are afraid they will have to live like the rest of Americans do? Oh the horrors of it all; they could go to Mexico and work there, before the last brick is placed so they are on the Mexico side of the wall!!!


8 posted on 05/06/2016 8:57:58 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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Love it! All the scum sucking America dry are finally scurrying like rats!


9 posted on 05/06/2016 9:05:33 AM PDT by varyouga
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From the article.

Korologos, who served as the ambassador to Belgium during the George W. Bush Administration, said he had lunch with other lobbyists on Wednesday, and the mood was grim.

“They were all depressed,” he said.


10 posted on 05/06/2016 9:09:00 AM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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These folks have been in Dreamland for a long time. Their dreams are soon to become nightmares........


11 posted on 05/06/2016 9:16:37 AM PDT by RayofHope (I want to be sick of winning!)
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This article reads like something from The Onion.


12 posted on 05/06/2016 9:23:57 AM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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“I don’t think downtown was really prepared for it happening so quickly. It did catch people off guard.”


People need to get used to that. Hard-headed business people like Trump don’t make money by standing around with their thumbs stuck half way up their nether-regions, they make it by DOING things, and doing them NOW. He won’t be able to change a lifetime of habits and, more importantly, SHOULDN’T change - because it is government that needs to do so.


13 posted on 05/06/2016 10:15:20 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Oh my gosh - they can't control someone who isn't beholden to them....

Go Trump!

14 posted on 05/06/2016 10:19:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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K St. loses their power over our elected officials and elections if Trump wins. He shined a light on the corruption. They’d rather have Hillary...an ENEMY...so they can con us all out of $$$ to run their criminal enterprise.

See Who runs the GOP and owns Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio? Let’s name names!

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/05/who-runs-gop-and-owns-paul-ryan-marco.html

Paul Ryan is OWNED by a powerful DC lobbyist/immigration lawyer. Ryan was hand picked and mentored to push his agenda.

His name is Cesar Conda. He brought Ryan to DC. He also groomed and picked one Marco Rubio acting as his chief of staff and more recently running Rubio’s Florida PAC, and IMO, his campaign.

Cesar Conda and his biggest ally, Grover Norquist have an agenda. It is to control the Republican party and the candidates who run in these elections who will implement the policies they want in place to profit their various NON profit scams. They are not conservative or moderate or any other label you can hang on them. They are NOTHING but amoral profiteers having found a gullible constituency in a nation of people easily fooled.
(this photo found on google search for ‘Cesar Conda’.....)

The agenda? Every lopsided, cheap labor ‘trade’ agreement that comes down the pike…Nafta, Gatt, Most favored nation status for China, TPP and on and on. They are actually treaties, but this little group has a congress willing to abdicate it’s power to call them ‘free trade agreements’.

AND

Uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration from South of the border and terrorist Muslim nations. Grover Norquist, married to a Pakistani Muslim who was active in the Bush Administration is the man who LED the push for the Mosque at Ground Zero. Donald Trump is the man who fought it! As Karl Rove, another part of this little K St. GOP power cabal, is proud to say, Norquist ‘brought home the Muslim vote for Bush’. They stocked the various agencies with their people!

They’ve become used to power, and they’re NOT going to give it up easily to the ONE MAN, DONALD TRUMP, who seeks to expose and end this corruption.

These people don’t ‘lobby’ our leaders…they OWN them. They write the legislation! Grover Norquist WROTE George Bush’s amnesty! Conda/Norquist WROTE the gang of 8 amnesty that THEIR little whore Marco Rubio pushed!
An interesting story about this photo when the Senate just passed the Gang of eight amnesty. The head between Rubio and McCain is Grover Norquist who was photoshopped out of the News item when it ran...yes, they have some control of this media!

They also RUN all your favorite ‘conservative’ institutions who are in your mailbox EVERY day conning you out of money to fund our destruction. And we smile, hope and write the check to:
Americans for Tax Reform, CPAC, The American Conservative Union, Freedomworks, Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots, Heritage, CLUB FOR GROWTH, the NRSC, NRCC and SO many more! [snip]


15 posted on 05/06/2016 10:22:17 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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