Tony and Heather Podesta
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Posted on 08/24/2009 6:03:53 PM PDT by kcvl
Social Connections, Political Savvy and Boundless Energy Have Made Heather Podesta The It Girl of a New Generation Of Lobbyists
The chairman beams.
So many people just dying to see him, the business guys, the pols, the lobbyists -- lots and lots of lobbyists. They circle Charlie Rangel -- birthday boy, Democrat and, of course, House Ways and Means chairman -- circles like rings on a tree planted in the party room here at Tavern on the Green. Simple math: the more powerful the pol, the more rings on the tree. This is a very thick tree.
Not a problem, though, for Heather Podesta.
"It's like doing the tango!" she says, all smiles yet all business.
The lobbyist tango: She glides right in her red D&G heels and her periwinkle stockings, cutting through the outer rings with a smile here, a kiss-kiss there, a "Great to see you!" or two. Some guy yells out: "The most beautiful woman in the world!" She doesn't blush, and she doesn't linger. She wriggles left, gets blocked, reverses direction, gets blocked again, reverses direction again. She's in.
"Great party!" Podesta tells the chairman.
"Isn't it wonderful?" Rangel gushes back.
The chairman pecks the lobbyist's cheek, and they're done. Thirty seconds of face time. Mission accomplished.
"Doesn't get any better than that," Podesta says, amused by the surreal nature of the ritual she has mastered. "A kiss from the chairman."
(Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's energy summit) and she'll be turning around and flying west again in a couple of days (Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's donor shindig in Napa wine country).
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Tony and Heather Podesta
Have you seen picture of this woman? She looks like Ms. Dipesto(sp?)
from the old “moonlighting” tv show.
Our clients range from Fortune 500 corporations to small non-profit organizations. A representative sampling:
American Airlines
American Beverage Association
Casey Family Programs
CIGNA Corporation
ClimateMaster, Inc.
DISH Network
EdisonLearning
First Marblehead
HealthSouth
Marathon Oil
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
National Marine Manufacturers Association
Newspaper Association of America
Portland Cement Association
Prudential Financial
Quality Diabetes Care Coalition
Roll International Corporation
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
U.S. Steel
Most recently, Podesta provided legal and legislative counsel to health care, high tech, education, telecommunications, and financial services clients, as a partner at Blank Rome LLP and a principal at Blank Rome Government Relations LLC. Prior to that, she worked for several U.S. Members of Congress on the tax writing committees, including the late Representative Robert Matsui (D-CA), as tax and trade counsel; Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), as legislative counsel on tax, trade, and pension policy; and Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), as legislative aide on trade and transportation issues. Podesta has also served as Assistant General Counsel at the Air Transport Association and General Counsel at the Airlines Clearing House.
Podesta is an active Democratic organizer and political adviser to many elected officials in Washington, DC and in state capitals across the nation.
http://www.heatherpodesta.com/index.php
Tell me these two don't look like characters out of the Sopranos!
Podesta represents everything that is wrong in Washington.
She joins the long list of politicians relatives lobbying and using the name and the influence to enrich thmeselves and screw over the public. The many children and spouses ought to be banned from doing business while the relative holds office. Joe Bidens son, Harry Reid and Tom Daschles wife ( while he was senate leader) and others need to be run out of town. Biden got his kid out of town when he decided to run for POTUS.
Washington, D.C. doesn’t represent the American public. It represents Washington. Takes care of Washington, too.
no kidding! and she’s the washington post’s “it” girl.
apalling.
Um, am I missing something here? She’s about a ‘5’, isn’t she? And she’s hardly a “girl”.
Statist career politicians and Podestas help promote each others’ livelyhood. They make their living buying loyalty with other peoples’ money. Ours.
Washington has become a private club for the rich an powerful. We are not welcome there and even though we pay for it all, they think we are Neanderthal monkeys. Peasants to screw while they revel in money and power. Bring on the National Razor...
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