Look at Amy Boardman Hunt's bio from the DBA piece.
-Amy Boardman Hunt is a legal media consultant for Androvett Legal Media and Marketing and co-chair of the DBA Media Relations Committee. Previously, she was a reporter for Texas Lawyer newspaper and its Washington, D.C., affiliate, Legal Times.-
She certainly has the means to be in contact with Dems...even in D.C.
Looks more and more like Townsel is a lib who may have gotten some marching orders from the Dems.
When the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to the corporate tax bill last week, it effectively undermined the Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rules. The amendment ensures that workers who were already qualified to receive overtime pay will not be denied. “This is a classic example of the exception swallowing the rule,” says JOHN T. PALTER, an attorney with Dallas’ Davis Munck, P.C. “Labor’s proposals could have brought much-needed certainty to the antiquated overtime standards of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The uncertainty increasingly makes employers a target for plaintiff’s lawyers. The amendment, while clearly paved with good intentions, promises to lead employers still farther down a winding, chaotic path.” To interview Mr. Palter about overtime rules, contact Melody Townsel at 800-559-4534 or melody@legalpr.com.
Do we have a thread for all these stories? ;-)