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June 01, 2013
For Obama’s ex-aides, it’s time to cash in on experience
For Obama’s ex-aides, it’s time to cash in on experience
The decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a political headache for President Obama. But to five of his former aides, it represents a business opportunity. Four of them — Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Jim Papa and Paul Tewes — work as consultants for opponents of the project, which would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. Another, former White House communications director Anita Dunn, counts the project’s sponsor, TransCanada, among the clients of her communications firm.
Keystone XL is just one of several upcoming administration decisions providing lucrative work for former Obama advisers on issues ranging from gun control to mining to legalized gambling. Just this week, three of Obama’s top former political advisers —Robert Gibbs, Jim Messina and David Plouffe — were given five-figure checks to deliver remarks at a forum in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a campaign to burnish its image in Washington.
Wild Thing's comment............
Such disgusting people.
Posted by Wild Thing at June 1, 2013 12:44 AM
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Sadly DC is a cesspool of these types of people from both sides of the aisle. Total self servers pretending to be contributing to the nation.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at June 1, 2013 02:24 PM
