Posted on 01/13/2010 4:01:57 AM PST by maggief
Or just a really good lookalike?
A tipster tells me that the man who was pushing me outside of a Capitol Hill fundraiser Tuesday night for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley is Michael Meehan.
Meehan heads up a firm called Blue Line Strategic Communications along with his partner David DiMartino, who was outside the fundraiser with Coakley tonight and introduced himself to me there. The AP reported on Monday that Meehan is also working for Coakley: "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2427012/posts?page=55
Coakley staffer knocks Weekly Standard reporter to ground
Yeah. The message is, "Get the eff away from my candidate, conservative scum reporter."
Needs more traction PING!
Coakley in trouble? Pharma and HMO lobbyists to the rescue
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
01/09/10 1:55 PM EST
With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama’s health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is here.
Of the 22 names on the host committee—meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley—17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there’s also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.
All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.
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Here are some of Coakley fundraiser hosts with some of their current health care clients:
* Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb
* Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA
* Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer
* Steven Champlin, Duberstein Group: AHIP, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis
* Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen
* Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care
* David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA.
* Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health
* Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis.
* Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth
* Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis.
* Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE.
Oh my. I noticed that Jamie “The Wall” Gorelick is helping co-host this event!!!
Guess she is in charge of security coordination?
The b!tch and her henchmen are BUSTED!
LLS
Big Phamra must have been promised they get to make fewer drugs (costs are down) but will still get higher profits under ObamaCare.
Follow the money and you see who gets payoffs and who is doing the paying.
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Kerry camp denies hiding war records
Washington Times, The (DC) - Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Author: Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. John Kerry ‘s campaign said yesterday that the Democratic presidential nominee is not hiding any of his war records and has, in fact, released them all to the public.
“Senator Kerry ‘s entire military service record is posted on JohnKerry.com. His entire record,” said Michael Meehan , adviser for communications to the campaign, at a press conference called to defend Mr. Kerry against recent charges that the former Navy lieutenant didn’t deserve some of his war decorations - three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
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The one that got my attention. Candy and Charlie Ergen. Who knew? Those in the Denver area, and those in the Satellite TV business will know.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102670.html
OMG, DHS! ASICs and OTMs!
Washington Post, The (DC) - Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Author: Al Kamen
The illegal immigration issue seems to have quieted some on the presidential campaign trail. But Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) tried valiantly to highlight the problem at a House Homeland Security Committee markup of a bill designed to protect the country from chemical attack.
“This is a national security problem,” Broun told the lawmakers. “I’m told by people who are involved in helping just monitor the border that roughly 40 percent of the people that are intercepted crossing our border are not Mexicans.”
(Actually, the official stats for FY 2007 show slightly less than 7 percent are OTMs, or “Other than Mexicans.” The ASICs, or “Aliens from Special Interest Countries” — most anywhere in the Middle East and a chunk of South Asia — totaled 297. That’s three-hundredths of 1 percent. Still, it’s not zero, so let’s continue.)
“Some of these people that are coming across the border are from other Central and South American countries,” Broun said. “But there is quite a large number of people that are coming across the border that are of Middle Eastern origin as well as Asian origin. A lot of these are single; they have no families. I don’t think they’re coming here to cut our grass or work in our chicken plants. So I think it is an extremely important issue that we must solve.”
Veteran Republicans obviously don’t anticipate taking the House or Senate any time soon — even if the Democrats complete their effort to give the White House to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). So the 16-year-old lobbying firm that used to be called Barbour Griffith and Rogers — that’s Barbour as in Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) — has hired its first Democrat, Michael Meehan , the former communications adviser for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
Meehan , most recently chief of staff for Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), will be president of the firm’s new public relations division, BGR Public Relations, and vice president of the overall firm BGR Holding LLC.
Meehan will literally sit in the office once occupied by Barbour, who co-founded the firm. “It’s the sign of the second coming,” the firm’s chairman, Ed Rogers, told our colleague Jeff Birnbaum, referring to the second coming of the once-all-Republican firm.
There will be more hiring of Democrats at the firm, something it has been contemplating since Black Tuesday — a.k.a. Election Day 2006, when Democrats won control of Congress — and Meehan will be in charge of the hiring, Rogers said. Meehan “will build out both the public relations firm and the Democratic component of BGR.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011203836.html?hpid=topnews
The DSCC bought $500,000 in advertising time for the contest, and national Democrats sent a pair of experienced strategists — Michael Meehan and Hari Sevugan — to Massachusetts to help lead the attack on Brown and oversee the final days of Coakley’s campaign. Democrats also have sent fundraising e-mails from Obama and Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).
Jamie Gorelick should have been ARRESTED by the FBI that night.
Looks like he has on his purple SEIU shirt on his cheap suit - How nice...
great photo..and shows that the ole’ bat knew it happened...and kept on walking
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