The Bipartisan Nature of the Revolving Door [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
"Scores of Washington [Democrats]" are "ensconced in firms working to advance corporate agendas that don't look that different from policy we see emanating from the Bush administration [3]," writes Russ Baker, summarizing a report released by his Real News Project [4]. Many of the politicians Baker mentions are at PR firms, such as Mike McCurry [5], who at Public Strategies, Inc. [6] heads the telecom-funded astroturf group Hands Off the Internet [7]. Several former Clinton [8] officials now work at Glover Park Group [9], such as Joe Lockhart [10], Carter Eskew [11] and Michael Feldman [12]. As detailed in SourceWatch [13], Glover Park clients include the Asbestos Study Group [14] and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America [15]. But wait - there's more! Jack Quinn [16] is at Quinn Gillespie [17], Mark Penn [18] at Burson-Marsteller [19], Mike Berman [20] at the Duberstein Group [21], and Leslie Dach was recently hired away from Edelman [22] by Wal-Mart Stores [23].