Posted on 01/05/2008 6:37:21 AM PST by jdm
Former senators John Breaux (D-La.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.) are opening a new, all-in-the-family lobbying firm, saying the capital and its corporate suitors are "yearning" for bipartisan solutions to gridlock.
Revealing what had been one of the worst-kept secrets in town, the senators said in an interview that they would officially launch the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group next week, with both their sons and Lott's former top aide joining them.
Breaux and Lott, who together have more than 70 years of experience in the House and Senate, first talked about such a partnership decades ago when they lived across the street from one another in Annandale. The families remain very close, with Chet Lott and John Breaux Jr. serving as groomsmen in each other's weddings.
The professional marriage had been assumed a foregone conclusion among K Street insiders since Lott announced Nov. 26 that he was retiring from the Senate less than a year after starting a six-year term. Days later, Breaux announced he was leaving the large lobbying firm Patton Boggs to form his own small shop.
Lott, by Senate rules, was not allowed to officially negotiate his contract until after he retired on Dec. 18. The Hill newspaper recently reported that in mid-October, Chet Lott bought the Web site domain name "breauxlott.com," but the former senators said they were not involved in serious talks until after Lott retired.
Leaving before the end of the year allowed Lott to escape a new, more restrictive revolving-door statute that prohibits former senators and their top aides from lobbying the Senate for two years. That law took effect Dec. 31. Lott and his former chief of staff, Bret K. Boyles, will instead be able to directly lobby the Senate after a one-year cooling-off period.
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This explains why Lott did nothing to help Woody Jenkins gain the Senate seat from LA in 1996. Instead, Breaux’s candidate, Mary Landrieu, was seated under questionable circumstances where the dead leaped from New Orleans graves to cast ballots.
I guess in that 1 percent were Jesse Helms and Tom Coburn, but he has been strangely quiet for months now.
This Baker seat is ripe for Democrat turnover, as liberals have been flooding into East Baton Rouge Parish, which elected a Democrat sheriff for the first time in 24 years in 2007.
Sounds like there is a new whore house in town.
And that is why Congress numbers are in the toilet. (and with some, Craig, it is literally) LOL
Translation: "We don't care who we whore ourselves out to, as long as you're paying us enough..."
Sort of like Jody Foster's character in "Inside Man."
Mark
I’m thinking a better name for the Lott-Breaux lobbying firm would be “Brott-Leaux”.
I understand what you are saying but what keeps me from voting democratic are their positions on life and foreign policy - they are a complete anathema to me. Oh, you said: sleep with the same women - you forgot to add men too, just a sidebar on today’s society./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Chuck Hagel, Lincoln Chafee...Trent may have been a spineless wimp most of the time, but he was a conservative, for the most part.
I thought that was implied with the foot tapping/bathroom stall comment.
I cant vote dem either but until the conservatives field their own candidate and do not get drunk on the power of DC.( Politicians are aphrodisiacs in DC) we will have politicians corrupted over and over again.
The problem is anyone willing to run should be immediately put under suspicion just because they are seeking office.
Mark Twain"
VERY good!
I can compete with that!
My tagline...
"There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers"
LOL!
Ummmmm...yep.
At least he had about a 93% lifetime rating on ACU.
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