Daschle Moving to K Street (Joins Law Firm)

Washington Post ^ | March 14, 2005 | Christopher Lee

[Coastal]

Former senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), following a bipartisan path blazed by many prominent ex-members of Congress, has moved from Capitol Hill to K Street, joining Alston & Bird as a special adviser in the law firm's legislative and public policy group.

Daschle, 57, the former Democratic leader in the Senate, starts work today providing the Atlanta-based firm's corporate clients strategic advice on such issues as energy, health care, financial services, tax policy, trade and agriculture. He was recruited by another former Senate leader, Republican Robert J. Dole, 81, who joined the firm as a special counsel in 2003.

Neither Daschle nor his new employer would discuss how much he will be paid. Other influential former members of Congress have drawn annual compensation packages of as much as $1 million and higher after making such moves. Dole has been reported to earn $800,000 to $1 million annually, a range the Republican called "more or less" accurate in an interview Friday.

[Mo1]

FYI

[BerniesFriend]

"Senator..former senator daschle is on the phone..he wants to talk to you about filibustering President Bush's judicial nominee..senator..senator..we have been cut off..stupid phone system.."

[spinestein]

I'm sure he will be spending a lot of his time getting paid to give speeches at liberal/Democratic functions preaching to the "Boy Do We Hate Republicans" choir, and regaling them with stories of how he presided over the Democrats going from owning the federal government in the early nineties to standing in the street looking in with their noses pressed against the glass today.

[Archon of the East]

He was recruited by another former Senate leader, Republican Robert J. Dole, 81, who joined the firm as a special counsel in 2003.

Does this bother anyone else? I mean really, If the discussions about how serious a battle we are facing to our Constitutional foundation at the hands of the liberal/socialist's/progressives/ is true, why the hell are things so cordial between our retired or private sector ex-leaders. Do they not feel the same way we do? Are they not fighting for the same principles we are? Something just doesn't seem right to me. Something stinks.

[Captainpaintball]

Forget K Street in Washington. I'd like to duct tape him naked to a lamp post on Avenue A in New York at 3 in the morning.

[Atchafalaya]

Blow buddies forever and ever! Pisses me off; I hope Dole never ever gets wood again!!!! At 81 my wish is probably reality and has been for some time.