Posts Tagged ‘Dick Gephardt’

AT 5:30, Sept. 13, Republican candidate for Congress, Ed Martin, will hold his fundraiser at Trattoria Marcella.  But, here’s the item:  hosts include George Kerry, who was an aide to former Dem Cong. Dick Gephardt; Jamie and Steve Komarek, Dem Mayor Francis Slay‘s cousins and Tim Kilo, who is related to Dem Martie Aboussie.

Former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt has cinched a contract for more than $436,000 in annual fees to his Gephardt Group Government Affairs to undertake the great American specialty – lobbying.  The firm’s team includes Gephardt’s former chief of staff and the firm’s managing partner, Tom O’Donnell, and senior veep Janice O’Donnell, a onetime staffer with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to disclosure documents filed with the Department of Justice.  The country of Georgia is situated at the juncture of eastern Europe and western Asia. U.S. relations with Georgia have been under the microscope since a 2008  war between that country and Russia over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. Georgia has also stressed its desire to join NATO.

CLIPPED: The cover-story of the Jan. 21 issue of Rolling Stone, headlined, “You Idiots: Meet the Planet’s Worst Enemies,” profiles “the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing the efforts to curb global warming.” Among them, dubbed “the arm-twister,” is Dick Gephardt, who is blasted for his work” as a lobbyist for Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private-sector coal company” and specifically for pushing the notion of “clean coal.” (Al Gore‘s rebuttal: “Clean coal is like healthy cigarettes. It does not exist.”) The publication’s Tim Dickenson says Peabody and the Peabody-promoted FutureGen Industrial Alliance have “invested $1.7 million in the Gephardt Group’s services since 2007.”

The article also cites Gephardt’s lobbying for Ameren, “the nation’s fourth-dirtiest utility.”

Former congressman-turned-l$bbyist Dick Gephardt got a drubbing in The Nation publication. Written by uber scribe Sebastian Jones, the article calls attention to the unprecedented $85 billion to mega insurance firm, AIG. Goldman Sachs got $12.9 billion “despite having claimed in September to be insulated from AIG.” As part of an investigation by Congressman Elijah Cummings and his staff, a draft was drawn up and was circulated to House members calling for a meeting with Goldman execs. They trotted in former congressman Dick Gephardt. In the early 2000′s, the article continued that Gephardt “harshly condemned corporate crime, which he said ‘ruined people’s lives for selfishness and greed’. So why, six years later, was he on Capitol Hill representing one of the biggest players in the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression?. . .And further, why was he recently working for Visa to kill credit card reform, helping Peabody Energy stymie climate change legislation and consulting for United Health Group alongside Tom Daschle to block meaningful healthcare reform?” Furthermore, author Jones recalled mentioning the Gephardt Group’s having a new contract with the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations, to which “one prominent labor lawyer paused before saying, ‘Oh, God. That’s kind of creepy.’”