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Smith, the NFLPA head, last week voiced his objections to Limbaugh’s bid with NFL commissioner, and urged players to speak out against Limbaugh’s bid.
Sharpton and Jackson also attacked Limbaugh’s involvement, asserting that Limbaugh’s track record on race should exclude him. Limbaugh said the real reason he’s out is the NFLPA’s attempt to influence negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. He said Smith warned he would bring the White House into negotiations if necessary.
“It’s designed to intimidate the owners, frighten the owners, and say ‘We’re running this league now, gang, not you,”’ Limbaugh said. “This little warning shot fired across the bow to the owners, to say ‘Get ready, here we come for the next collective bargaining agreement,’ so we’ll see how it all unfolds.”
This link for the above is also a good article summarizing what Rush said.
News 14 Carolina
DeMaurice Smith was elected by the Board of Player Representatives in March 2009 as the new Executive Director of the NFL Players Association.
Previously, he was a trial lawyer and litigation partner at D.C. law firm Patton Boggs, where he concentrated on white-collar criminal defense and tort liability trials. He was also Chair of the firm’s Government Investigations and White-Collar Practice Group. He has argued numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
In addition, he has defended individuals in high profile criminal cases and Congressional investigations while also representing Fortune 500 companies in criminal and complex civil cases, compliance matters, and internal investigations. He also represented Halliburton, Shell Motor Company and Ford Motor Company during his career.
Smith previously served as Counsel to then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder in the U.S. Department of Justice before entering private practice. His duties revolved around national security issues, congressional relations, and DOJ budget and finance allocation.
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Looks to me like it could have been a conspiracy. Check this out from Freeper Smoking Frog. I posted to ask for a source; didn't get a reply yet. It may have come from a Laroche document, but the link I tried is dead.
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George Soros may have found his disciple, Saakashvili, at the offices of Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler LLC in Tbilisi, where the young lawyer started his career after coming home in 1992 from study at Columbia University. A professor there, R. Scott Horton, combines the careers of human rights defender, and privatization consultant in the former U.S.S.R. In the 1980s, he was the lawyer for aging Academician Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner. Today, Horton represents the Ukrainian intelligence Major Mykola Melnychenko, whose peddling of audiotapes of President Leonid Kuchma’s private conversation launched a political crisis in Ukraine in 2001.
At a 1998 Columbia University conference on Caspian oil reserves (co-sponsored by Exxon), this friend of dissidents presented a report astronomically remote from human rights—on the juridical implications of the division of the Caspian Sea. By that time, Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler had been in Kazakstan for ten years, and in Moscow for five. In Russia, the firm is a partner of Alpha Group’s Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK), recently merged with British Petroleum, and the largest Russian telecommunications company, Svyazinvest, co-privatized by George Soros, Boris Jordan, and Vladimir Potanin in 1997.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363558/posts?page=31#31