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Pharmaceutical industry lobbyist.
If you remember Mal Colston, Sinema's career in the US senate was very similar.Not being familiar with the dear lady's CV but like all former pollies she should not be seen and not heard of, or from, ever again.
I do remember Colston. He was too large to forget. Another of the pollies who should have gone quietly into the night.If you remember Mal Colston, Sinema's career in the US senate was very similar.Not being familiar with the dear lady's CV but like all former pollies she should not be seen and not heard of, or from, ever again.
Who was Mal Colston?If you remember Mal Colston, Sinema's career in the US senate was very similar.Not being familiar with the dear lady's CV but like all former pollies she should not be seen and not heard of, or from, ever again.
Australian senator. Was a bit controversial and considered more self serving than even your typical politician, but was tolerated because of the slim majority in the senate at the time.Who was Mal Colston?If you remember Mal Colston, Sinema's career in the US senate was very similar.Not being familiar with the dear lady's CV but like all former pollies she should not be seen and not heard of, or from, ever again.
Too old for that.Feminine hygiene products influencer
Only if she’s dead.Too old for that.Feminine hygiene products influencer
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SCHRADER REGISTERS TO LOBBY: Former Rep. Kurt Schrader has registered to lobby for the first time since leaving office earlier this year. The Oregon Democrat lost his bid for reelection last year after his role in slowing up his party-led drug pricing plan and decoupling Democrats’ reconciliation bill from the bipartisan infrastructure bill provoked a successful primary from the left. He’s now a principal at Williams and Jensen, which represents a number of pharmaceutical clients.
— Schrader and four others at the firm are working on behalf of biotech executive Emil Kakkis, a new filing shows.
The law firm Foley & Lardner LLP announced Friday that the Democrat has joined the firm as a public affairs director and will be splitting his time between the firm’s Boston and Washington offices.
Capuano will join Foley’s team of former members of Congress, which includes public affairs directors Dennis Cardoza and Scott Klug, both previously members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Scott Klug, co-chair of Foley’s Federal Public Affairs Practice, said in a statement Capuano will be a “valued and trusted advisor for our government solutions clients spanning all regions and industries.”
Seems like he's a lobbyist.Former Missouri Congressman William Lacy Clay Jr. advises and advocates on behalf of clients whose interests intersect with the federal government.
In guiding clients, Congressman Clay draws upon his 20 years as a member of the House of Representatives ...
Whatever can be said about his writings, at least he didn't become a lobbyist.Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Pope Leo XIII Fellow on Social Thought, University of Dallas
President, Lipinski Solutions, LLC
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Dan is working on a book about his work in Congress and what needs to be done to mend the dangerous divide in America. He has recently published articles in First Things, America, The Atlantic, and Public Discourse, as well as op-eds in the The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and the Chicago Tribune. Dan sits on the boards of Belmont House on Capitol Hill, Empower Illinois, Lewis University, National Committee on Religious Freedom, Sunwater Institute (Congressional Reform), and Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
As many of you know, I was appointed in March to be the new Chief Executive Officer of Little City, following the resignation of former CEO Marie Newman. The work Marie did here helped Little City grow stronger, and I am excited to carry the leadership forward for our organization.
Marie Newman | Substack - "Author (A Life Made From Scratch, April '25), Fmr Congresswoman, CEO, Serial Entrepreneur & Radio Cohost: mixing social justice, economic equity, politics, healthcare, women & leadership, and social movements in a pot to see what happens?"Sharing ideas, observations, analysis and occasionally explainers around politics, women & leadership, entrepreneurship, economic issues, social movements. More projects coming soon.
At the University of California at Irvine's site: Katherine Porter - "Professor of Law (On Leave)"The Harvard Law alumna had been teaching at UCI Law prior to her 2018 election, and she will return to its faculty in the spring of 2025, the school announced on Wednesday.
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In an interview earlier this year, Porter said she’d like to pick up some of her old classes, as well as new ones that could draw on her experiences in Washington, D.C. When she returns in the spring, Porter will teach courses on bankruptcy, consumer law, secured credit and legislation, she said Thursday.
“I’m thrilled to return to the classroom next year, where I’ll be doing the same work I did in Congress: holding corporations accountable, reducing the influence of special interests and fighting for justice for all by empowering our next generation of consumer advocates,” Porter said.
“Californians know our future depends on bright, young leaders who can cut through partisanship and deliver real solutions to our state’s most pressing problems — like the cost of housing and existential threat of climate change. I’m looking forward to helping equip these new leaders at UC Irvine with the tools and skills they need to succeed,” she added.
Expertise:
Bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer law, mortgage foreclosure, debt collection, credit and debit cards, empirical studies of legal systems
Background:
Professor Porter’s research focuses on empirical studies of consumer bankruptcy and has been published in journals including the Texas Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and the Cornell Law Review. She is the author of the textbook, Modern Consumer Law (Wolters Kluwer 2016), a co-author of The Law of Debtors and Creditors (Wolters Kluwer 2014). She edited Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class (Stanford Press 2012), which showcases interdisciplinary empirical research.
Lucius Quinctius CincinnatusThe Society of the Cincinnati is a fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the American Revolutionary War that saw the creation of the United States. Membership is largely restricted to descendants of military officers who served in the Continental Army.
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The Society is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who left his farm to accept a term as Roman Consul and served as Magister Populi (with temporary powers similar to that of a modern-era dictator). He assumed lawful dictatorial control of Rome to meet a war emergency. When the battle was won, he returned power to the Senate and went back to plowing his fields.
An elitist dick.Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (c. 519 – c. 430 BC) was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a legendary figure of Roman virtue—particularly civic virtue—by the time of the late Republic.
Cincinnatus was an opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into poverty because of his son Caeso Quinctius's violent opposition to their desire for a written code of equally enforced laws. Despite his relatively old age, he worked his own small farm until an invasion prompted his fellow citizens to call for his leadership. He came from his plough to assume complete control over the state but, upon achieving a swift victory in only 16 days,[1] relinquished his power and its perquisites and returned to his farm. His success and immediate resignation of his near-absolute authority with the end of this crisis (traditionally dated to 458 BC) has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, humility, and modesty.
Under "Legacy",Modern historians question some particulars of the story recounted in Livy and elsewhere but usually accept Cincinnatus as a historical figure who served as suffect consul in 460 BC and as dictator in 458 BC and (possibly) again in 439 BC, when the patricians called on him to suppress the feared uprising of the plebeians under Spurius Maelius, after which he is said to have once again ceded power.
Like Katie Porter becoming a law professor again.The legend of Cincinnatus's military victory and subsequent relinquishment of power has continued to inspire admiration. It has also been invoked to honor other political leaders, notably George Washington. Washington's relinquishing of control of the Continental Army, refusal to consider establishing a monarchy or assuming monarchical powers, and voluntary retirement after two terms as president to return to his farm at Mount Vernon have made allusions to Cincinnatus common in historical and literary treatments of the era.
She seems very Trumplike.Responding to a question from Maitlis on whether her actions had “played a part in inflaming the political rhetoric in this country” in the wake of the Trump assassination attempt, Lake called Maitlis a “sad case of a human being.”
“You are part of the fake news agenda and you are lying,” said Lake. “You don’t know a damn thing about Arizona, you don’t know a damn thing about our election and you sit there with a smirk on your face in England, in the UK, in a country that has been destroyed.”
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But Lake doubled down yesterday, saying she still believes the election was “run fraudulently” while refusing to elaborate due to being “in the middle of a lawsuit.”
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Lake threw her weight behind Trump yesterday, telling Maitlis the media has been “tearing him apart” for the past eight years. “Imagine a smear campaign about you for eight years, pretty soon no one would like you,” she said to Maitlis.
“Can you answer the question?”
“Emily, you need your head examined.”
Key Trump ally Kari Lake, who is being sued for repeated false claims of election interference, doubles down.
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"Trump in Exile" should come out soon.Kari Lake secured the Republican nomination for US Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, her convincing primary win fueled by Donald Trump’s endorsement. But according to a new book, Trump has regularly mocked Lake over how fervently she advances his election fraud lie.
“Lake’s commitment to talking about fraud in the 2020 election would make even Trump laugh at times,” Meridith McGraw of Politico writes in Trump in Exile, an account of the former president turned presidential nominee’s years since leaving power.
“It doesn’t matter what you ask Kari Lake about,” McGraw quotes Trump as saying. “‘How’s your family?’ And she’s like, ‘The family’s fine but they’re never going to be great until we have free and fair elections.’”
Citing Trump “friends and donors”, McGraw writes: “One said, ‘He was like, ‘You could ask her, how’s the weather?, and she’ll turn it into the election. ‘Oh, the weather in Phoenix is OK, but you can never have great weather unless the election is fair.’”
But Kari Lake is not just a Republican candidate for US Senate. She also claims to be the “lawful” governor of Arizona—and she’s still contesting that loss in court, 20 months after she officially lost to now-Gov. Katie Hobbs. In an appeal filed last week to the Arizona Supreme Court, Lake asked the justices to either install her in the governor’s mansion or order a do-over election, alleging that Maricopa County improperly verified signatures on hundreds of thousands of ballots. In other words, Lake is trying simultaneously to become Arizona’s senator and its governor. All of which raises an admittedly strange question: What happens if Lake wins her lawsuit?
Let’s say a judge declared Lake the actual governor. Would she continue running for Senate, or would she drop out to serve out the rest of the term as governor?
I find that disgusting. Why not spend the money on the campaigns of politicians and ballot measures that she likes?In total, her campaign spent more than $650,000 between July 1 and Sept. 30, including $216,000 on travel and $152,000 on security-related expenses. While the campaign finance report does not detail exactly where she went or the purpose of her travel, her previous travel habits have sparked ethical complaints from critics.
What would early KS say about recent KS?The campaign spent $50,000 on airfare alone during that time. She spent almost $71,000 on hotels in California and Arizona, as well as hotels abroad, including the luxury Tokyo Edition Hotel in Japan, the five-star Nobu Hotel London Portman Square, and the Castel de Très Girard in France, according to KJZZ Phoenix.
Sinema also stayed at the Grand Hotel at the Grand Canyon, Rosewood Sand Hill in California’s Silicon Valley, the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah, and the St. Regis Aspen Resort in Colorado. In Bethesda, Maryland, her campaign spent more than $7,500 on a Marriott Hotel.
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She recently traveled to Paris for the Summer Olympics. In an interview with Arizona State University’s Cronkite News in France at the time, Sinema said she was “honored” to be there.
“I’m just so honored and privileged to be a part of an incredible event,” she said. “It’s really just a privilege to be here.”
She spent $1809.48 on an American Airlines flight in July and more than $10,000 on another American Airlines flight in August. The report shows she is also a frequent purchaser of in-flight Wi-Fi, for which one purchase costs nearly $60.
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In total, Sinema’s campaign spent $21,000 on meals and catering, including $1,300 at Nobu in Tokyo and $1,100 at Jardin d'Hiver in Paris.
Her campaign spent $4,500 in London on lodging, a car service, meetings, and food. In Europe, Sinema spent $800 on train tickets from a German-based company, but it is unclear if she traveled to Germany, too.
She also spent $431 on a Milwaukee Brewers vs. Washington Nationals game in Washington, D.C., this year.