Posted on 07/09/2011 9:27:01 AM PDT by Al B.
Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann may represent competing visions of the direction of the Republican Party, but both their presidential campaigns are relying on legal advice from partners at Patton Boggs, the Washington power law firm that pioneered innovative fundraising strategies for 2008 GOP White House hopefuls that left advocates for reducing the role of money in politics crying foul.
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And law firm signings are as closely watched as those of top campaign operatives or pollsters.
Take Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman initially written off by some handicappers as a fringe anti-establishment candidate whose appeal was limited to tea party activists.
It turned some heads when she retained as her presidential campaign lawyer Patton Boggs partner Bill McGinley, a well-regarded and cautious establishment Republican who had served as general counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and deputy counsel to the Republican National Committee.
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Campaign finance insiders had expected Bachmann might end up with Cleta Mitchell, a partner at the mega firm Foley & Lardner, who in 2010 developed a niche representing tea party Republicans including Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and unsuccessful Senate candidates Sharron Angle of Nevada, Joe Miller of Alaska and Christine O’Donnell of Delaware.
But Mitchell, who represents a host of conservative advocacy groups, has so far waded into the presidential race only to advise former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum on the early stages of his campaign.
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Ping.
Imagine that.
I would ask, what's the problem here?
I am sure this is just a coincidence. I mean, michele bachmann is such a free true conservative spirit and all, being queen of the TEA Party an’ ‘at. Yunz are just taking it wrong. /s
No problem unless you are claiming to be one thing but acting like another.
Free Republic turning into the MSM, or as Palin would say, LSM. Imagine that.
I’m no Romney fan. But it looks like the media is starting their policy of personal destruction on both Romney and Bachmann.
It’s really going to get ugly when Sara throws her hat in the ring. The media is livid about either of the three being able to unseat Xero.
Oh yes, let’s swallow hook line and sinker everything politico reports. They’re so fair and balanced.
Please, she’s merely engaged a firm with a lot of quality resources. Just because a law firm has represented liberals does not disqualify it from representing conservatives.
There is no problem here. Candidates need a good law firm, I guess unless they use Boggs and Hawgs, they are an elitist. LOL
Personally, I think Bachmann should get the best lawyer that she can afford, in light of a strict budget that she should stick by and which should be mirror past presidential campaigns.
A good campaign does NOT want to screw up their finance issues, and since they are so complicated, they better have good counsel. (The system should of course be simplified, but that is not on the table right now).
Ed Rollins at work managing her campaign.
God this place is worse than DU sometimes...
You mention that a lot. Project much?
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