- Republican Party
- GOP Lobbying
- Ralph Reed Century Strategies President- GOP Lobbying & Consulting 1997-Present, Atlanta, Fmr.Christian Coalition Exec. Dir., Co-Founded with Koch‘s Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips (& Rep. Goodlatte’s COS-VA); 1997 General Consultant for Fulton County Commission Chairman Mitch Skandalakis for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia campaign, used tribal Native American leaders wearing ceremonial costumes to attack opponent GA State Sen. Clint Day & ran ads that the Days had “desecrated Indian graves” “vandal” “grave robber” and Skandalakis lost in a tight race.
- Jack Abramoff–2005 Indian casino lobbying fraud with Ralph E. Reed Jr., Grover Norquist, Michael Scanlon, implicating Tom DeLay and Bob Ney (R-OH). 2001 George W. Bush White House Transition Team: White House Contact was Abramoff’s former aide Susan Ralston, Executive Asst. to Karl Rove, Greenberg Traurig
- Ohio
- Congress
- Tom DeLay (R-TX-22) 1985-2006. 1995 Tom DeLay House Majority Whip, started the K Street Project with Grover Norquist, that infiltrated DC lobbying firms with GOP politicians and led to insider-legislation such as Dick Cheney’s energy task force and blacklisting special interests groups and lobbying firms that hired Democrats. 2002 Dossier of political donations was leaked to the Washington Post. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, Sec 102, bans members of Congress and staffers from using their political power to influence the employment decision of any private entity “on the basis of partisan political affiliation”. 1997 Tom DeLay founded First Principles, LLC
- Newt Gingrich- 1994 Republican Revolution-Tom DeLay orchestrated midterm election for GOP control of Congress & Senate