K Street Crushed, Conservatives Elated over Boehner Departure

Rollcall ^ | Sept. 25, 2015 | Eliza Newlin Carney and Kate Ackley

[mrsmith]

...Many K Streeters, by contrast, said they were shocked, if not surprised, by Boehner’s news, and voiced anxiety over what comes next. Business leaders have lost key policy battles over immigration and the Ex-Im Bank; have rallied behind former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the presidential race only to see him trail in the polls; and now face the prospect of yet another government shutdown.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes we did, but I note it took this long to achieve. Why?

I am ashamed of the people we have sent there in good faith.

They have not delivered.

[Jane Long]

True...and, now they’ll have to pay him MORE, as a *cushy* lobbyist.

Sick system, I tell you!

[wita]

If you can’t pass a “budget” you will continually be faced with shutdowns as the ongoing CR’s run out. It’s a helluva way to run a railroad much less a Republic.

...and who gets the blame is never in doubt.

[usconservative]

I didn’t make it. I think either Laz did, or he knows who did. Anyway, I ripped it off of Laz.

[wita]

...and now that we have that taken care of, we face the identical situation different name.

A candidate for House Speaker who doesn’t have the votes in his own caucus to carry the day. He can only get over the hump with the aid of the democrats.

[HarleyLady27]

Now on to McConnell!!!

[Psalm 144]

I’ll wait to celebrate when a new “CONSERVATIVE” speaker is on the job.

K Street is probably laughing at us gullible fools right now.

They know who will be getting the job.

Then we’ll be stuck with them for a half decade or more.

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I agree with you that this is way this is scripted to play out. WE need to change OUR script to upset that applecart. When we have a quisling like Boehner or McConnel, primary them, and if that fails actually vote for their opposition (if morally possible) to take them out, and make sure that everyone knows they were deliberately taken out by their own base. A couple of humiliations like that and they will tighten up their game. I’ve been saying this for years. Quislings’ careers need to be put against a metaphorical wall and shot.

[Psalm 144]

Yes!

[48th SPS Crusader]

If these people were riding Boehner and expected to ride Jeb Bush they are really morons and deserve to be screwed..........

[maggief]

“To some degree, it’s a setback, and you’ve already seen the John Boehner haters out there,” said Marc Lampkin, a partner at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and a former Boehner aide. In a world where Donald Trump is a top contender for the GOP nomination and where “more and more people worship at the altar of Rush [Limbaugh], this only gives them greater impetus to be defiant and to run against, in many respects, common sense.”

http://www.bhfs.com/people/attorneys/l-o/mlampkin

Marc Lampkin serves as the managing partner of Brownstein’s Washington, DC office and is co-chair of the firm’s Government Relations Department. He is a highly respected advisor and veteran Republican House and Senate lobbyist, bringing years of political, legislative and campaign experience to bear for his clients.

On the Hill, Marc is well-respected for his role as a member of House Speaker John A. Boehner’s (R-OH) ‘Team Boehner’, a team of high-level strategic advisers that work closely with Speaker Boehner and other Republican members. His relationship with Speaker Boehner goes back to 1995 when Marc served as General Counsel for the House Republican Conference under then-Chairman Boehner for three years. In addition to his time on the Hill, Marc served in a variety of roles from 1999 to 2001 with the Bush for President Campaign. His years on the Hill, campaign experience, and extensive relationships with administration officials and staffers, at policy think tanks, trade associations and the media have made him a trusted unofficial advisor for numerous members of Congress, cabinet officials, and other leading Washington policymakers.

Since entering the private sector in 2001, Marc has successfully put his political acumen to work navigating matters and proceedings before federal court and agencies, including mergers and acquisitions, and financial services, transportation, infrastructure and trade issues. In addition, he has been involved in several high profile and successful public advocacy campaigns. Most recently, he led the Strong American Schools (SAS) issue advocacy campaign (2006-2009), a joint project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundations, which oversaw the organization’s “Education in ‘08” effort, pushing the issue of education reform to the forefront of the 2008 presidential campaign.

In his own time, Marc’s passion for education reform and opportunity has included raising millions of dollars for nonprofits that support education options for parents and disadvantaged children. He serves on the Board of Directors of Horton Kid’s Inc. and Chairs the Dinner Committee of the Boehner-Lieberman Dinner to benefit the Consortium of Catholic Academies in Washington, DC.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/marc-lampkin/4/b47/aab

Marc Lampkin
Shareholder, Government Relations Department Co-Chair and Washington, DC Office Managing Partner at Brownstein

Advisor
Team Boehner
1995 – Present (20 years)

[mrsmith]

I wasn’t too disappointed until the Cromnibus went through. But I’m probably more kind than most.
The main cause was the GOPe scheme for everyone to be ‘moderate’ to get a Republican president elected. I can see that seemed ‘smart’ in 2011 and 2012. After it obviously failed things should have gone our way and I can’t understand it except for the sheer cussedness of the RINO majority in the caucus.

BTW it’s most enjoyable that “outsiders” success in this presidential primary can be credited at least in part to the RINOs ‘be moderate to elect a president’ scheme!

[volunbeer]

Look who is upset. They paid all that money for nothing

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Nothing? I would say it’s money well spent for the banksters. By my calculations they received at least a few trillion that our children and grandchildren will have to pay. All their crooked politicians came through for them big.

Brutal truth!

[nickcarraway]

This is being said too quick on the draw. They could install a worse speaker in that role.

[hoosiermama]

Out of work? Or does he also serve on others team?

[Sequoyah101]

John Bonehead, the best speaker money can buy.

Bye. Leave sooner.

Take your buddy McConnell with you.

If there is a future whoever hires this putz will be wasting their money.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m harsh myself, because we fight tooth and nail to give the Republicans the majority.

Right now we have the largest majority we’ve had in 80 years.

80 YEARS!

What have we done with it? Essentially nothing.

Obama has used his veto pen four times.

I’m actually furious with our party’s conduct in Washington, D. C.

It’s verges on fraud.

[maggief]

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/16/364479331/new-congress-new-laws-new-life-for-lobbyists

Politicians from both parties have promised to be productive in the upcoming term. Republican lobbyist Marc Lampkin tells NPR’s Rachel Martin that more legislation is good news for K St.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION From NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. President Obama has vowed to move forward on immigration through executive action if Congress doesn't pass a bill. And just a few days ago, The New York Times reported the president could act as soon as this week. That could disrupt the postelection narrative in Washington that the Republicans, who won control of both houses of Congress, can end the legislative gridlock.

Lobbyists are hoping that's the case. Marc Lampkin is a Republican lobbyist with the bipartisan group Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. And he told me that if Congress can pass more bills, that means more work for people like him.

MARC LAMPKIN: I think there's some consensus on we need to look at energy policy. You see in the last, you know, two, three years, this emergence of fracking. I think tax reform, you know, it's big and it's comprehensive, and it's complicated. But I think you're going to people that, in a bipartisan way, are going to say let's roll up our sleeves in all of these issues. The commonality of the issues we just - I just mentioned is that they're not partisan at their core.

MARTIN: So this may be an obvious question, but can you explain why the potential of more legislation getting passed is a good thing for you, Marc Lampkin, lobbyist?

LAMPKIN: Well, it goes to the way things work. So the last year and a half, if you think about it, a lot of companies - and really, not just companies - trade associations, interest groups that represent kind of grass roots - have turned their attention away, in some degree, from the day-to-day operations of the Congress because there's not a lot going on. So if you think about it, if people see nothing’s going on, they retrench.

MARTIN: So the last few years have been slow for you.

LAMPKIN: Slower because companies are saying why am I spending money and there's no return on that because there's no issues to litigate. Now, if you think about it, you've got Boehner and McConnell saying we want to roll up our sleeves so that means that lots more of the - this is a bad word - pedestrian issues will start to move. Then businesses, we're going to come back to Washington and say, hey, I've got a perspective on that. I've got an opinion. And that actually is what the bread and butter of what lobbyists due. So if Congress is doing more, there's more interest that become implicated in the impacts of their policy, which means that my phone rings more, and I'm busier.

MARTIN: But you know that a lot of people's concern about Washington and the ire that a lot of people have is the idea that there's so much money in Washington, and that people who get paid, like yourself, have an outsized level of influence in those halls on Capitol Hill.

LAMPKIN: There's always that danger. But I'll tell you, you know, the one thing the people don't realize, 20 years ago, lobbying was very static. There was guys like me, you know, who had on their fancy suits going up to the Hill, talking to members of Congress and the staff. And we had a great advantage.

Now I have to. And I tell my clients all the time, lobbying is a lot more dynamic. It is the rare member of Congress that not only doesn't have a Facebook page, but doesn't look at it or monitor it every day. Almost like the Dow Jones because they want to see what their constituents have to say about what the issue of the day is. You know, there's been a broader democratization of advocacy because of the Internet. So I think some of the criticisms and observations are certainly fair. But I think if people looked at it with the kind of a broader lens, I think they would understand that there's a lot more variables that go into the legislative advocacy progress then there used to be, you know, even just a mere, you know, 25 years ago.

MARTIN: Marc Lampkin is a Republican lobbyist with the firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck here in Washington, D.C. He's getting ready to go to work. Mr. Lampkin, thank you so much for taking the time.

[Jane Long]

Ha! Rich....coming from (yet) another DC puppet....

....DC cabal wouldn’t know what “Common Sense” was even if Paine’s actual book came up and whopped it on it’s ugly, corruption infested head.

[fortheDeclaration]

Agreed!

[Calpublican]

Doubt they are crushed.

They have bought and paid for many others besides Boehner.