The Post reports on several defense company earmarks with links to Rep. Peter Visclosky. In rapid succession, the three-employee technology firm, NanoSonix, filed its incorporation papers in Skokie, Ill., and hired a Washington lobbying firm, K&L Gates, which boasted to clients of its close relationship with Visclosky. A week later, Visclosky wrote a letter of support for […]
Day: October 26, 2009
Bundlers to foreign postings
Al Hunt’s “Letter from Washington” discusses the Podestas and John Roos. In Tokyo, John Roos, a Silicon Valley lawyer, is occupying the post once held by such distinguished statesmen as Edwin Reischauer, Mike Mansfield, Walter Mondale and Howard Baker. The new ambassador to Tokyo’s chief credential: He was a big fund-raiser for Mr. Obama’s presidential […]
Lobbyist bundled contributions in the news
The Hill reports on some of the latest lobbyist-bundled contribution reports. Ken Raske, president and CEO of the Greater New York Hospital Association, collected donations worth more than $152,000 for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in September alone, according to the latest FEC reports.