Haley Barbour
Sarah Palin
Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford, possibly can win - Palin, Barbour - can’t win.
Especially Barbour...
You mean this Haley Barbour?
Now the lobbyists and the high-tech executives are so close they have gone into business together. This week, the Caucus Room, a steakhouse, opens in downtown Washington at Ninth and D Streets N.W. under 65 partners whose rosters of political connections, high-tech interests, and in some cases both, are longer than a Manhattan wine list.
Thomas H. Boggs Jr., a prominent lobbyist, and
Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and now in the lobbying business,
hold the largest shares, $150,000 each.
Ted Leonsis, a top executive at American Online, and
Jon Ledecky, another Internet entrepreneur, are also investors.
It is a bipartisan bunch:
Terry McAuliffe, President Clinton's top fund-raiser;
C. Boyden Gray, a former counsel to President Bush and now with the law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering;
Thomas Downey, a former Democratic congressman and now a lobbyist;
Richard Burt, the former ambassador to Germany; and
Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster.
Even the Senate sergeant-at-arms, James Ziglar, has a share in the $3.3 million restaurant with mahogany paneling and marble floors, not so subtle reminders of the hallowed halls of Congress.
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Barbour may be doing a good job for his state but anyone who shares very close business partnerships with some of the scum of the Dem party probably has the thinest veneer of integrity.