RK ARCHIVE - Wednesday Night's Bush Fundraiser for Allen at Home of "The Embedded Lobbyist"

*Enron, which "paid Quinn Gillespie $700,000 in 2001 alone to lobby on the +óGé¼+ôCalifornia energy crisis+óGé¼-¥ and thwart efforts to re-regulate the Western electricity market through price controls."

*PricewaterhouseCoopers, which "paid Quinn Gillespie $1.35 million from 2000 to 2002 to lobby against increased oversight of the accounting industry." PricewaterhouseCoopers later "paid a $5 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2002 for repeated accounting irregularities."

*Daimler Chrysler, which "paid more than $1 million to Quinn Gillespie, which lobbied heavily against any increase in fuel-efficiency standards for gas-guzzling light trucks and SUVs."

*The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which "paid Quinn Gillespie $860,000 to lobby for the so-called Class Action Fairness Act, which would make it easier for companies to prevail in class action lawsuits accusing them of defrauding customers."

*Tyson Foods, which "paid Quinn Gillespie $440,000 in 2002, in part to downplay federal charges against Tyson for conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States to work at its poultry processing plants for lower wages than it paid legal workers."

In conclusion, Public Citizen asserted that "Ed Gillespie+óGé¼Gäós record of advocacy for the interests of Corporate America +óGé¼GÇ£ including some of the country+óGé¼Gäós most infamous corporate wrongdoers +óGé¼GÇ£ raises serious questions about President Bush+óGé¼Gäós decision to appoint Gillespie to lead the Republican Party."

That's the guy who will be hosting a fundraiser for George "Macaca" Allen Wednesday evening.

[UPDATE: The Mount Vernon District Democratic Committee will be assembling a "welcoming party" to let the Georges know how Mount Vernon feels about their "leadership." If you would like to come hold a sign and speak your mind, the Committee invites you to...

MEET AT GRISTMILL PARK
Wednesday, August 23 at 4:30 p.m.
4320 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Alexandria, VA 22309
(corner of Ferry Landing Rd. and Mt. Vernon Mem. Highway)]

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And so the Rally This Wednesday 4:30 (kevinceckowski - 8/22/2006 11:50:21 AM)

near Ed Gillespie's home, here is the invite:

Mount Vernon Democratic Bulletin
ALERT

Mad About Iraq?
Think "Maccaca" was a nice hello?
Need to Buy Some Access to Tom Davis?

Speak now or forever hold your peace.

THE DECIDER HIMSELF
George Bush will be in Mount Vernon on Wednesday, August 23
Raising Red Money for George Allen

It's Time to Send a Message
Mount Vernon already has Washington & Mason,
These Two Georges Need to Go Home!

On August 23, The Decider himself, President Bush will be attending a George Allen fundraiser at the home of RNC Chair Ed Gillespie in the Westgate Precinct (near Mount Vernon). Read about it in the Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://www.timesdis patch.com/ servlet/Satellit e?pagename= RTD/MGArticle/ RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149189874079).

The Mount Vernon District Democratic Committee will be assembling a "welcoming party" to let the George's know how Mount Vernon feels about their "leadership. " If you would like to come hold a sign and speak your mind:

MEET AT GRISTMILL PARK
Wednesday, August 23 at 4:30 p.m.
4320 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Alexandria, VA 22309
(corner of Ferry Landing Rd. and Mt. Vernon Mem. Highway)

If you come:
Please STAY OFF/OUT OF THE ROAD;
Stay on the road right of way and off private property;
Please be respectful of the neighbors
We not going into the neighborhood, but staying out on the main road. We would like to have raw numbers to send George Bush, George Allen, and Tom Davis a message, not disrupt their political activity, but we are only looking to send a message. See you there!
For information, call MVDDC Chair, Scott Surovell at 703-587-7872 or email at ssurovell@smillaw. com.

Expect Republican Counter-demonstrators (bb10 - 8/23/2006 1:49:57 PM)

The "Hotline on Call" daily briefing (from "National Journal") of today (see here) says that the Republicans have sent out an e-mail calling for their minions to assemble and support the Two Georges. They're meeting at the intersection of Mt. Vernon Memorial Hwy. and Ferry Landing Road.

My best wishes to all the Webb supporters out protesting this afternoon!

conservatives (TurnVirginiaBlue - 8/22/2006 1:36:09 PM)

Now point this one out about Republicans representing the corporate cheap labor lobby (Tyson, corporate exploitation of illegal labor and encouraging erosion of workers rights/want to do nothing about illegal immigration and so on) and some conservatives might just vote Webb.

Seriously, they do know about this and this is the split in the Republican party.

I know everyone wants to classify conservatives as evil racists but some fiscal conservatives are actually raising alarm bells on the middle class and this is their big "ding, ding, ding".

I find it interesting that "punish employers" is given it's token response but Allen can be nailed to the wall via his "guest worker/cheap labor/undermine American workers/avoid employment law" Skil Bill which is another very hated item by fiscal conservatives.