White House Counselor hosts attends party for lobbying firm (UPDATED).
White House Counselor hosts attends party for lobbying firm (UPDATED).
On Wednesday night, the lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie & Associates hosted “its popular annual holiday party,” offering their guests finger food and champagne. The firm’s profile at the party got a boost from the White House as former founding partner Ed Gillespie, who is currently serving as counselor to President Bush, greeted guests:
Lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie & Associations returned to hosting its popular annual holiday party Wednesday evening, after taking a year off in 2007. On hand to greet their many guests were the firm’s two founding partners, Democrat Jack Quinn and Republican Ed Gillespie, though Gillespie left the outfit last year to join the White House.
National Journal’s Bara Vaida notes that Gillespie “severed his financial ties to the lobbying firm when he joined the White House,” but “could return to K Street” after Bush leaves office.
This sentence is ridiculously misleading. "On hand to greet their many guests were the firm's two founding partners, Democrat Jack Quinn and Republican Ed Gillespie, though Gillespie left the outfit last year to join the White House." These people were NOT guests of Ed Gillespie, Jack and Ed did NOT jointly “greet their many guests” and you need to correct your story as wrong.
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Holiday party? Holiday party?
OOOO, BillO’s going to be mad!
And just for my own edification, who is paying for said party? Because if it’s my tax dollars, cancel it now!
PEACE
December 5th, 2008 at 11:58 amWhite House Counselor hosts party for lobbying firm.»
December 5th, 2008 at 12:00 pm– - Slow news morning, eh TP?
I’m not sure why, but Ed Gillespie always reminds me of Zippy the Pinhead
December 5th, 2008 at 12:03 pmI know, let’s lobby to remove lobbying.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:12 pmHey that’s a splendid idea they had.
Now we can just all go and citizen-arrest them at once…
December 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm