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...Dean, about to become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), will occupy a special perch last held by Haley Barbour, the current governor of Mississippi and Republican chairman following Bill Clinton’s first presidential victory. A wily lobbyist, Reagan adviser and honeysuckle political hit-man, Barbour rose to the challenge of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and became an indispensable part of setting the winning 1993 and 1994 GOP strategy of hardline anti-Clinton opposition...
...says he raised membership in San Jose from just 100 in 2000 to 2,500 in 2004. With an operating budget of $100,000, his local group weighs in on everything from racial profiling to employment discrimination. "For me, it's about giving back," says Callender, a water-company lobbyist, when explaining why he got involved. He is training the next generation of leaders through the chapter's Youth Leadership Academy. After all, the future of the civil rights movement will be in their hands...
...Nassirian is a lobbyist, not an analyst. The folks at NAICU are lobbyists, not analysts,” King wrote in an e-mail...
...close aides on charges of funneling illegal corporate money to Texas state elections. The House ethics panel was asked to look at DeLay's involvement in the scheme but decided to wait for the Texas prosecutor to finish his probe. And Senate and federal grand jury investigations of lobbyist and DeLay fund raiser Jack Abramoff--who allegedly has defrauded Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in inflated fees--are exploring his boasts of access to DeLay. People close to DeLay have been subpoenaed, say government sources. --By Viveca Novak
Jack Valenti, the firebrand longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), was never one to mince words. As the movie industry's chief lobbyist, he knew how to portray his business's challenges in dramatic terms. Back in the 1980s, faced with new technology that supposedly threatened the studios' bottom line, Valenti once famously compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler...