Mary Landrieu takes job at Washington lobbying firm

NOLA.com (Times Picayune) ^ | 05/26/2015 | Bruce Alpert

[BerniesFriend]

WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is joining the Washington lobbying firm Van Ness Feldman, the firm will announce later Tuesday (May 26).

Landrieu said she will join Van Ness Feldman as a senior policy advisor, working closely with another recent hire, former Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., the former top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.

Former senators are barred from lobbying their former colleagues for two years after the end of their congressional careers. For Landrieu, that means she can't lobby colleagues until January, 2017. But she can lobby members of the executive branch, and is free to provide Van Ness Feldman clients with strategic advice.

Landrieu said the job will provide her with the "flexibility" to continue her work for the Walton Family Foundation, advocating on education issues, such as support for charter schools in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and nationally.

Landrieu lost her bid for a 4th Senate term to then Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, in a Senate runoff election.

Landrieu said she'll be working on coastal restoration issues, as well as energy policy matters, for Van Ness Feldman, a firm that includes both Democratic and Republican lobbyists.

The move likely signals that Landrieu won't be returning to the electoral arena. That's no surprise. Louisiana has become increasingly Republican.

With her defeat, the state has no state-wide elected Democrat. After her Dec. 6 loss to Cassidy, Landrieu said "Oh Lord, no" when asked if she would run again for office. Later, Landrieu said, she would not rule anything out, but added it is "very, very unlikely" she would run for public office again.

[Jane Long]

The Keg Stand Lobby?

[zzwhale]

now she works with dicks

[MasterGunner01]

How absolutely precious, boys and girls. Former Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu (D-LA) found a job with a DC lobbying firm. We need a law that kills this revolving door cronyism. You cannot work in a policy or funding arm of the government and then work for a lobbying outfit for a minimum of 20 years after leaving government employment.

[poobear]

Washington is a Criminal Enterprise!
Next!

[Impy]

I haven’t been so shocked since Clay Aiken came out of the closet.

[Fledermaus]

Now they’ll have to widen the doorways.

[Fledermaus]

FESTIVAL!!

[ETL]

Either that or the LA Lakers won (or lost) the NBA Championship.