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Judge a campaign by its lawyer [Romney, Bachmann using Establishment "power law firm"]
Politico ^ | July 9, 2011 | Kenneth Vogel

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachmann; election2012; presidentromney; romney; romneywhore
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1 posted on 07/09/2011 9:27:06 AM PDT by Al B.
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To: onyx; Virginia Ridgerunner; Brices Crossroads; sarah fan UK; Lakeshark

Ping.


2 posted on 07/09/2011 9:28:27 AM PDT by Al B.
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To: Al B.
ROMNEYBACHMANN
3 posted on 07/09/2011 9:33:53 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: Al B.
Patton Boggs is the ultimate in DC power player within the lobbying arena. Nice, MB, Very nice.
4 posted on 07/09/2011 9:42:34 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Al B.

Imagine that.


5 posted on 07/09/2011 9:49:51 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Has anyone done a study on the connected East and West Coast elite law firms in D.C. or L.A. which assisted the Ronald Reagan for President campaigns of 1976 (primaries) and then the general elections, 1980, and Reelection for President, 1984?

I would ask, what's the problem here?

6 posted on 07/09/2011 9:50:45 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Herman Cain is high on my list, but Michelle Bachman is gaining poker chips by the day!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

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


7 posted on 07/09/2011 9:55:24 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: AmericanInTokyo

No problem unless you are claiming to be one thing but acting like another.


8 posted on 07/09/2011 9:57:51 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: MestaMachine

Free Republic turning into the MSM, or as Palin would say, LSM. Imagine that.


9 posted on 07/09/2011 10:01:19 AM PDT by ejdrapes (Can we keep our attacks focused on the real enemy: Obama)
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To: Al B.

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.


10 posted on 07/09/2011 10:01:27 AM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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To: Al B.
reid/pelosi/bummer/hilliary reading posts on this thread:
11 posted on 07/09/2011 10:02:30 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Al B.; All

Oh yes, let’s swallow hook line and sinker everything politico reports. They’re so fair and balanced.


12 posted on 07/09/2011 10:06:21 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Al B.

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.


13 posted on 07/09/2011 10:11:10 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (It's not difficult.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

There is no problem here. Candidates need a good law firm, I guess unless they use Boggs and Hawgs, they are an elitist. LOL


14 posted on 07/09/2011 10:12:50 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Al B.

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).


15 posted on 07/09/2011 10:13:35 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Al B.
Sad to say, it's almost certain that Milt and Michelle have made a backroom deal for her to get his VP slot.
16 posted on 07/09/2011 10:19:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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17 posted on 07/09/2011 10:53:06 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: Al B.

Ed Rollins at work managing her campaign.


18 posted on 07/09/2011 10:53:20 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Al B.

God this place is worse than DU sometimes...


19 posted on 07/09/2011 11:06:01 AM PDT by ejdrapes (Can we keep our attacks focused on the real enemy: Obama)
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To: ejdrapes

You mention that a lot. Project much?


20 posted on 07/09/2011 11:47:30 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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