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antigop

(12,778 posts)
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 11:35 PM Mar 2015

Washington revolving door speeds up as Obama officials head for lobbying jobs

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/07/washington-revolving-door-lobbying-jobs-obama

As the 2016 election looms, the former White House press secretary Jay Carney has joined the corporate exodus, despite the president’s stated policy

Washington has long been notorious for its revolving doors. A city where politicians, regulators and other officials spin out of one capital building only to return at another as highly paid lobbyists and spin doctors for the people they used to watch over.

As the 2016 election approaches those doors are likely to spin faster. A rash of senior White House staff jumping ship for well-paid lobbying jobs at some of America’s biggest and most controversial companies could pose a threat to open government, governance and transparency campaigners have warned.

Leading the pack of former White House staff accepting the corporate shilling is Jay Carney, President Obama’s former White House press secretary, who this week joined Amazon as its head of global corporate affairs reporting directly to its multibillionaire founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos.

Carney follows David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign manager and senior White House adviser, who quit the White House in 2013 and joined Uber as senior vice-president of policy and strategy in 2014. Others to have left the Obama administration for the serious cash of the corporate world include Alyssa Mastromonaco, the White House’s former deputy chief of staff for operations, who joined Vice Media as chief operating officer earlier this year.

Samuel Maruca, who was director of transfer pricing (multinational company taxation) at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), joined law firm Covington Burling as partner where he leads on helping multinationals create “tax-efficient structuring”. Shara Aranoff, chair of the US International Trade Commission, also joined Covington & Burling.
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Washington revolving door speeds up as Obama officials head for lobbying jobs (Original Post) antigop Mar 2015 OP
Just sickening. nt Mnemosyne Mar 2015 #1
Yep. One of of the reasons the middle class keeps getting shafted. nt antigop Mar 2015 #2
22 more months of this ... quadrature Mar 2015 #3
Just getting started. daleanime Mar 2015 #4
But he's different! really! Doctor_J Mar 2015 #5
Oh for shame ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2015 #6
 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
6. Oh for shame ...
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:48 AM
Mar 2015

Carney didn't consult with you on what would be appropriate employment!

I'm finding more and more ... In order to read more and more DU posts; one must, first, suspend reality ... then, the posts make perfect sense!

I wonder how many of the posters above, sickened by Carney's employment choice, could with a straight face claim, they wouldn't have made the same, or similar, choice, given the opportunity?

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