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Clinton Campaign Uses Top Lobbyist for Post-Debate Spin
Mark Schmitt over at TAPPED has a great grab. After yesterday's Democratic debate in Nevada, the three campaigns each sent a top surrogate to MSNBC to try and spin Chris Matthews and his audience. Edwards sent Joe Trippi, his top strategist, and Obama send David Alexrod, his top strategist. But Clinton didn't send Mark Penn; she sent former Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater. Things were moving along in standard fashion until
Matthews out of nowhere said, "Mr. Slater, I just noticed that you're a lawyer at Patton, Boggs. That's Tommy Boggs's lobbying firm. Are you a lobbyist?" "We're a full-service law firm, Chris." And then a little more, and Matthews says, "I just want to be clear about this: Do you do any lobbying?" "I have done a little lobbying, but I'm an attorney. We're a full-service law firm. We offer our clients the full package."
For the record, Washingtonian puts Slater at #39 in its list of 50 top lobbyists.
Nice.
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Send in the clowns (lobbyists)
That is exactly what I am looking for in a candidate - one that is not only status quo but up front about it.
Well, there's another important detail about Mr. Slater you didn't mention...he became the latest brother on the Clintons' list of tools...They are using as many black faces as they can find to improve their image after last week's flap, and because, if Obama ventures too deeply into "black" territory, he'll be seen as polarizing and divisive, so it's a great political ploy...won't be long before they renew the talk about whether or not Obama is "black enough," especially if he finishes ahead of her in S.C.
Posted by: nic on 01/16/08 at 9:05 AM Respond
thank you
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