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K Street Project
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K Street Project's Friends
George W. Bush
Bush and Republicans, Tom DeLay and Senator Rick Santorum, have been carrying out what they call the "K Street Project," an effort to place more Republicans


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Grover Norquist
Grover Norquistis the 'Field Marshal' of the Bush Plan.


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Tom DeLay
The K Street Project was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay.


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Jack Abramoff
Prosecutors are focusing on about 20 politicians and staff, including the biggest recipients of Mr. Abramoff's largesse in the successful K Street Project.


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Bob Ney
Ney entered comments in the Congressional Record for the sole apparent purpose of helping Jack Abramoff and Adam Kidan acquire and then maintain control of SunCruz Casinos, a transaction that is now ...


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Abramoff-Reed Indian Casino Scandal
The scandal is one piece of the K Street Project, Republican influence to leak into public view.


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Richard Pombo
Pombo chairs the House Resources Committee which handles Native American issues linked tightly to the K Street influence.


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Robert W. Ney
Key Power player, Bob Ney, head of the House Administration Committee known as "the mayor of Capitol Hill" for his extensive influence.


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David H. Safavian
Bush administration's top federal procurement official arrested and accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with the federal govern...


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Rick Santorum
DeLay of the House, Rick Santorum of the Senate, and Grover Norquist took this opportunity to expand the K Street Project by pressuring major lobbying firms to hire only Republicans in any new or ope...


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Roy Blunt
May 2005 Washington Post ran a long story by Thomas Edsall about the success that House Majority Whip Roy Blunt has had in making K Street lobbyists into a virtual subsidiary of the Republican party.


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Newt Gingrich
Abramoff soared to prominence because of ties with the hard-charging Republicans led by the former house speaker Newt Gingrich.


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Alexander Strategy Group
From K Street to Main Street, from the halls of power to the kitchen tables across America, Alexander Strategy Group understands your needs may include more than the “old style” lobbying services tha...


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opensecrets.org
Tracking and reporting who is behind the "Public Servants" with names and $$$.


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Republican Main Street Partnership
Strategy to support a GOP government economy.


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John A. Boehner
Billed as as a clean break from GOP corruption scandals, but Boehner passed out checks from a tobacco industry group on the House floor moments before a key tobacco vote.


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Grover Norquist
Part of the GOPorkfest.


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PhRMA, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
The 80 Billion dollar sellout to PhRMA member under the new Medicare drug plan rewarded Rep. Bill Tauzin, R-La.credited with guiding the new Medicare law's passage. He now works for PhRMA, as one of...


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Medicare
An $80 billion price-tag is estimated from two specific provisions where Republicans sold out seniors for their industry contributors.


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National Forests
Selling National Forests to pay for rural schools is an excuse. Bush and the Republicans want to sell public lands to the mining and logging industry when there is no need for it. If these lands are...


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DCI Group
The DCI Group, LLC is top Republican lobby and PR firm associated with telemarketing company Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI and the direct-mail firm FYI Messaging. The DCI group publishes the website ...


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Creative Response Concepts
CRC is part of the fast acting team of PR firms ready to spin the "news" for the Republican core driving the conservative agenda.


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Burson-Marsteller
In April 2005, Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter reported that Burson-Marsteller had joined with Quinn Gillespie & Associates to launch 360 Advantage, a public affairs shop filled with "key players in George...


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Triad Management, Inc.
Another brainchild of the radical right, Triad is a Tom eLay company set up to funnel monies between lobby groups, supporters and candidates. It helps to bypass the campaign finance restrictions.


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Exxon Mobil
Republicans own the government lock, stock, and barrel and it's a cash cow ExxonMobil has just posted $36.13 billion in profits and our gasoline and home heating bills are at an all-time high;


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Congress
Since Bush was elected the number of registered lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled to 34,785, last year 65 lobbyists for every member of Congress spent $200 million per month!! The total s...


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Lee Raymond
Thanks to almost free oil from public lands and tax breaks from the K Street Congress Lee made almost $200,000 per day and the retirement package was even better. $3.00 a gallon gas does make someon...


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Neil Volz
Abramoff's plea agreement details his practice of hiring former congressional staffers, including Volz. Abramoff used these persons' influence to lobby their former Congressional employers, in viola...


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Crimes and Lawbreakers
The Gingrich plan to create a revolving door between government and lobbyists so the Republican-Corporate coup could get us where we are, a bankrupt nation of corruption.


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Steve Buyer
In a letter to the Ca. congressional delegation, Gov. Schwarzenegger (R) estimated the Buyer provision for Lilly would raise the state's prescription drug costs by $50 million a year.


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Fortunate Son
The K Street Project was a corporate strategy set by the Wall Street-Oil and Banking families which Bush is heir to. They loaded up with insiders, the lobbying firms, appointees, judges and set the ...


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101 Constitution Avenue
K Street is the legacy address of the lobbyists but the offices that overlook the Capitol from "101 Con" have become filled with enough top influence peddlers to be called the Shadow Capitol.


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Americans for Tax Reform
Norquist is a key architect of both efforts to increase corporate control.


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Heritage Foundation
Partners in creating the message and getting it out.


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Hillary Clinton
Hillary's 2008 Presidential campaign is using all the sme players to repackage the corporate control and save the lobbying influence.


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Richard "Rick" Alcalde
Maloney, who was a legislative director to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) before becoming a lobbyist. Maloney's firm, Federalist Group, reported revenues of $6.2 million. That is down about $200,000 from ...


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Richard E. Lyng
From 1981 - 1985, he served as USDA’s Deputy Secretary. In 1985 Lyng, along with William Lesher, formed Lyng and Lesher Inc., an agricultural consulting firm in Washington DC. On February 22, 1986, h...


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Monsanto
Nature and Politics by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn The Poison Lobby: Monsanto & Its Political Musclemen


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Hogan & Hartson
Hogan & Hartson ranked number two in earnings for the DC lobbying lawyers in 2002, link and chart below.


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Lincoln Group
Lincoln is a prime in the K Street project, partnering lobbyists with Congress. "The firm says it has entered into more than 20 Defense Department contracts (the biggest of which could be worth as m...


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Fred Thompson
Thompson was one of many GOP lobbyists who swelled the ranks of corporate soldiers on K Street beginning in the Gengrich era of loading lobbying firms with GOP members.


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Dale Moore
Beef Lobbyist and the legislative director of the Committee on Agriculture at the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-96, where he worked on the formulation and passage of the 1996 Farm Bill. He ...


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Anne Veneman
Before rejoining USDA, from 1999 until her recent swearing-in Veneman was a partner in the law firm of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott in Sacramento, Calif., where she specialized in food, agricult...


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MZM Inc.
A house staffer, Eric Massa, said this is what is going on and explained further when asked if the phony front companies were true: "This has been going on since "K Street" Yep, the scam works jus...


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Brent R. Wilkes
Brent Wilkes and his string of front companies are involved in far more than the K Street-Cunningham mess. They're a flat out taxpayer fraud funnelling money to fronts by hiding funds in the bloated...


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Gale Norton
12-2006 - Norton joins Shell Oil and a growing list of former Bush administration officials that have traded in their administration roles for lucrative jobs in the industries they once oversaw.


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Asa Hutchinson
Former Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson joined a Washington, D.C.law firm as the head of homeland security lobbying


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