Solynra also paid Dutko Worldwide to handle it’s loan application last year (which is apparently very detailed and over two hundred pages long).
Dutko Worldwide had been around K-street for 30 yrs but from 2008 (Dems took over) contracts dwindled almost, as if, it was deliberate else how would they have survived 30 yrs. They eventually had to sell. A British Global Company called Huntsworth (top guns) bought them out in 2009, built the program they used in Britain, ME, and Asia (are we being standardized?).
The Chairman of Dupko Worldwide is an ex-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International .
Andy Wright is the President. He went directly to Dutko Worldwide from the office of Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), where he served as Chief of Staff. Sherman is a senior member of the House Financial Services, Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees.
Bill Andresen is a senior vice president in charge of federal lobbying at Dutko. He’s a part of Harry Reid’s K Street Cabinet, he was chief of staff to Sen. Joe Lieberman, and has worked with advocacy groups for centrist dems, such as, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and the Third Way, which is PUSHING FOR CLOSER TIES TO BUSINESS.
From their site:
Each year, 1-3 graduating Tufts seniors are chosen for a 10-month paid fellowship. The placement site is “to be determined” based on the applications received and the Fellow selected.
The following organizations are examples of past placement sites:
The Democratic Leadership Council/Progressive Policy Institute:
American Enterprise Institute
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
***The Republican Governors Association*** (one of the students got a placement in a Seattle office)
New America Foundation
The National Partnership for Women and Families
International Senior Lawyers’ Project
Global Fairness Initiative
Americans for the Arts
Slate Magazine
Center for American Progress
Tom Daschle and Terry McAliffe are Board Members.
http://www.huntsworth.com/overview/our-history.aspx
http://www.dutkoworldwide.com/fellows/
Was anyone asked to vote for these changes in our way of governing? It appears we’re being forced via silent coercion into this “Third Way”.
McBee’s Strategies Consulting, lobbyists, (with management consisting of Democrat ex-Aides from Dicks and Murray’s offices - the CEO a son of a long-time and well-known in DC lobbyist), got money from Solyndra to lobby on their behalf.
Dubko Worldwide, communications, (with management consisting of Democrat ex-Aides - President was Sherman’s Chief of Staff), got money from Solyndra to write their application. Then what happened? I wish I knew how the system worked. Going forward, it looks like a member of American Progress, Steve Spinner, approved an application (completed by Dubko), for half billion dollars. And it’s obvious that McBee’s lobbied successfully but not with whom? Did they lobby the “old way” (however that’s done) or did they get a referral from a government staff member?
These specific companies are manned with ex-Aides from Patty Murray, Dicks, Lieberman, Sherman’s (senior member of the House Financial Services, Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees) offices and Harry Reids K-street Cabinet. That alone should quality the government as a Company – a Business Conglomerate. Anyone here know how this lobbying system worked as compared to this process? One does see how they needed National Socialized Healthcare.
PS: I think this is something else that was heralded in by the Clintons. When one investigates any internet site of power - they’re on the board.
Excellent research. For us, this is eye popping, but I have a strong feeling that this is business as usual. People just play musical chairs from Capitol Hill to K Street and back. Sometimes they take a detour to Wall Street.
I just makes me so angry how they play so cavalierly with our hard earned money. Like it’s some big game of monopoly. America, please wake up!