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...auction site, MercExchange, and says nothing less than an injunction will satisfy him. "We want the injunction so eBay's power sellers come to our site," he maintains. You can imagine eBay's view of that position. The case is so important that eBay has hired big-name lobbyists in Washington, such as the Ashcroft Group, a lobbying shop run by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Juleanna Glover Weiss, an ex--press secretary for Vice President Dick Cheney, is registered as an eBay lobbyist on "patent reform...
PLEADED GUILTY. TONY RUDY, 39, former deputy chief of staff to Representative Tom DeLay; to conspiring with Jack Abramoff in a lobbying-fraud scheme while Rudy worked for DeLay and after he left to become a lobbyist; as part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with a federal investigation...
...book called Thank You for Smoking, a satire about a Washington tobacco lobbyist and his somehow weirdly valiant efforts to convince the world that smoking isn't conclusively unhealthy. Mel Gibson, or more accurately, "Mel's people" (as we movie folks say), optioned the rights to it in 1994, even before it was published. Mel's people couldn't have been nicer. They announced with conviction, "This will be Mel's next movie." That was extremely pleasing to hear. And, indeed, I would hear it many, many times over the ensuing decade...
...least I was able to show up. For many in Washington--Congressmen and Senators especially--being married to someone in the de facto auxiliary club of this company town means the spouse doesn't live in the city at all. A lobbyist friend (people do have them, even now) recently rattled off six current and former legislators who had come to Washington married to a "high school sweetheart type" back home and then found themselves married a second time to someone a little more "in the game"--a staff member or lobbyist, usually. My friend added, for emphasis, "Newt Gingrich...
...this administration, had placed a call to the White House on Tuesday and "sent a direct message" to Chief of Staff Andrew Card urging him to hire former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee as a top adviser to help inject some new blood. Last July, Bush named Thompson - a lobbyist and former Law & Order actor - to counsel his first Supreme Court nominee, who turned out to be John Roberts, through the confirmation process. CBS quoted Baker, who has previously complained that the current West Wing doesn't listen to him, as saying, "I did not recommend firing anyone, just adding...