Lott Contradicts Story About Leaving Senate To Lobby With Breaux: ‘Seemed Like It Was Time’
Lott Contradicts Story About Leaving Senate To Lobby With Breaux: ‘Seemed Like It Was Time’
When former Mississippi senator Trent Lott announced last November that he was retiring from the Senate, he was asked if he had registered with the Senate Ethics Committee because of “a rule” requiring registration “if you’re negotiating with a future employer.” Lott said that he had “not” because he said he had not made any formal plans:
LOTT: Well, I have not yet, but I’m not really involved in negotiation. I’ve tried to stay away from that. There are some opportunities out there that I want to be able to consider, but I have nothing that we’ve agreed to or lined up.
Earlier this month, Lott announced that he and former Lousiana Sen. John Breaux (D) were forming “a powerful lobbying partnership called The Breaux Lott Leadership Group.”
Appearing with Breaux on MSNBC’s Hardball today, Lott contradicted his previous statements by admitting that he chose to “leave the Senate” in order to form the “bipartisan firm” with Breaux, saying “it just seemed like it was time”:
LOTT: Plus, John and I’d talk about the idea of getting together and forming a bipartisan firm, for years we kind of joked about it, and then it just seemed like it was time for us to see if we could do this. I think there’s going to be a big demand frankly, for someone who can talk to both sides of the aisle.
Watch it:
Since the day Lott announced his resignation, he and Breaux have been denying that they had any “formal” plans to work together, claiming that they had only “joked about the prospect of working together.”
But their story has always been hard to believe. Six weeks before Lott announced his retirement, his son, Chet, “secured the rights to the domain name” breauxlott.com. Days after the announcement, Breaux resigned from lobbying powerhouse Patton Boggs.
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I think there’s going to be a big demand frankly, for someone who can talk to both sides of the aisle.
You gotta be kidding! LOL
January 16th, 2008 at 8:36 pmYOU? You??? No decent person would work with you at all!
There has to be electronic evidence of Lotts schemings, proof he set up shop in violation of Senate (cough-cough) ethics…
January 16th, 2008 at 8:37 pmWhether it will ever see the light of a court room is anyone’s guess.
LOTT: Plus, John and I’d talk about the idea of getting together and forming a bipartisan firm, for years we kind of joked about it, and then it just seemed like it was time for us to see if we could do this. I think there’s going to be a big demand frankly, for someone who can talk to both sides of the aisle.
Republican definition of bipartisanship = Democrats the roll over on queue.
The joke is on the American people.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:39 pmI think there’s going to be a big demand frankly, for someone who can talk to both sides of the aisle.
Close but no cigar, Little Trentie. You can’t talk to both sides of the aisle. However, you can talk out of both sides of your mouth.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:40 pmIMPEACHMENT ACTIVISTS DISRUPT JAY LENO’S TONIGHT SHOW TO PROTEST NBC AND TO SUPPORT PRES. CANDIDATE DENNIS KUCINICH
Four political activists were escorted out of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show studio in Burbank, CA on Tuesday, January 15, 2007, after disrupting NBC’s “live-on-tape” recording of the show. The activists were L.A. National Impeachment Center members, fed up with media censorship of popular support for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, and Kucinich supporters outraged that NBC went to the Nevada Supreme Court to prevent Presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich from appearing on Tuesday’s MSNBC Democratic debate in Las Vegas.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/30172
** Note, Keith Olbermann has made no mention tonight on the exclusion of Dennis Kucinich from yesterday’s debate. He’s quick to criticize Bill O’Reilly for kissing Rupert Murdoch’s ass. Yet tonight Keith is silent on the egregious actions of his own company, GE, for a much larger and more important issue: Political Censorship. Tonight Keith, you bring shame. I don’t say any of this easily. I’m a five day a week Countdown watcher.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:41 pm“…..Republican definition of bipartisanship
The joke is on the American people.”
Comment by Wayne
Bipartisanship used to be a term applied to the Congress, and the Executive, when they actually accomplished their duties as an elected body, a cooperation and governance by the people, for the people.
Now it is an accusatory term blaming the other side for not capitulating.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:45 pmThere has to be electronic evidence of Lotts schemings, proof he set up shop in violation of Senate (cough-cough) ethics…
Whether it will ever see the light of a court room is anyone’s guess.
Comment by Nevar — January 16, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
With the current Justice Dept?
January 16th, 2008 at 8:48 pmfat chance =/
I think there’s going to be a big demand frankly, for someone who can talk to both sides of the
January 16th, 2008 at 8:52 pmaislemouth.“…the current Justice Dept?”
All rise.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:53 pmThe Second Cousin and Employee of the Defendant will now preside…
“a powerful lobbying partnership called The Breaux Lott Leadership Group.â€
Where does their “power” come from ? Do they have “dirt” everybody?
January 16th, 2008 at 8:54 pmDo they have “dirt†on everybody?
oops
January 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pmWhere does their “power†come from ? Do they have “dirt†everybody?
Comment by lurker — January 16, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
Wholesale warrantless wiretaps do have their advantages.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm/snark
Sounds like they had… aLOTT BREAUxing
January 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pmI reckon they’ve got ‘dirt’ on those who have ‘dirt’ to be got. they wouldn’t command those stratospheric fees if they didn’t, now, would they?
January 16th, 2008 at 9:04 pmbreauxlottleadershipgroup.com
is available…Ooops not anymore.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pmDoesn’t it just make you feel confident in being truly represented by the people that you elect when they continually retire from service and become part of the corporations or lobbying firms or problems that they were elected to keep watch on while they served us? I can’t see how my confidence in politicians can get any lower but I am sure some Republican will surprise me.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pmwaterboard him.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:26 pmWhat?…no helping the homeless in your state???? ..I’m just shocked I tell ‘ya.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:47 pmperhaps they can bring in Delay as a partner, too.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:58 pmwaterboard him.
Yes.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:26 pmThis story appears to insinuate that Lott wasn’t being entirely truthful with his earlier statements about his “plans”.
But that can’t be, can it? After all, he was a US Senator for gosh sakes.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:29 pmTrent can most definitely ” talk to both sides of the aisle.”
The right side and the far-right side.
I call it Trentmouth.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pmWhat did you expect a politician to say, especially a Republican one, the truth?
January 16th, 2008 at 11:55 pmSure Trent sure…we all get it, ha ha, wink, wink.
January 17th, 2008 at 6:39 amAnother Republic666an liar… say it’s not so!
January 17th, 2008 at 8:04 amSo he’s crook, in a sea of crooks.
.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:26 amI’m just glad the slimeball is leaving office. The more open Republican seats in 2008, the merrier.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:48 amhttp://breauxlott.com/
Is alive and well:
Lott and Breaux Launch Bipartisan Consulting Firm
Former Senators Bring Experience and Talents to the Private Sector
WASHINGTON – January 3, 2008 — Former United States Senators Trent Lott and John Breaux announced today the formation of The Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, a partnership offering strategic advice, consulting and lobbying to a wide range of clients.
The firm unites two former Senate leaders from opposite parties, with a combined total of nearly 70 years experience in Congress. Lott and Breaux, who are teaming up with their sons, Chet Lott and John Breaux Jr., will offer their services on a full-time basis from their new offices in Washington, D.C. …..
Gotta be a joke….
ApWuStEwArD
January 17th, 2008 at 8:51 am” I think there is going to be “big demand” for someone who can talk to both sides of the isle.”
It just seems so natural for Trent, jumping from politics to business with this statement. Washington is soo American these days.
When will there be a real American who will stand up to dirty American corporate politics?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:57 amOh, there is but they have been marginalized by the supreme godlike power of money.