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Despite the huge amount of fossil fuel funding upon which George W. Bush was elected president in 2001, insiders in the monopoly-dominated oil industry remained unsure that he would fight for them - and against climate scientists.

Bush had suggested during his candidacy that CO2 should be treated as a pollutant and, therefore, subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act - even if the international Kyoto Agreement was not economically favourable for America.

Bush’s fence-sitting was strategic: swing states such as Florida were environmentally conscious and speaking out would likely give Democrat presidential candidate Al Gore the advantage.

But, optimistic environmentalists remained hopeful while wary oil-men were worried that it demonstrated a willingness to agree to the broad principles of the treaty.

A Rumoured Speech

Shortly after his inauguration, a rumour circulated that Bush planned to include a line reinforcing his earlier pledge in a forthcoming speech.

Word of the speech reached the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a Koch- and Exxon-funded think tank that helped donate to Bush’s presidential campaign. CEI set to work. As their founder and president, Fred Smith latertold *Newsweek*: “We alerted anyone we thought could have influence and get the line, if it was in the speech, out.”

Despite the think tank’s best efforts, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman testified, on 27 February 2001 at a Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works subcommittee, that she was in favour of regulating CO2 emissions under the Clean Air Act.

A week later, she signed a joint statement at the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting which said: “We commit ourselves to strive to reach agreement on outstanding political issues and to ensure in a cost-effective manner the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol.”

The President’s Position

At this, the denial machine set in motion.Haley Barbour, a lobbyist for a utility firm that stood to lose if greenhouse gases were regulated, urged Vice President Dick Cheneyin a March 1 memo to persuade Bush not to align with the “eco-extremism” of those who saw carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

A group of far-right Republican senators wrote an open letter to their new president. In light of Whitman’s testimony, they asked that Bush clarify his position on climate change, “in particular the Kyoto Protocol, and the regulation of carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.”

Aware of the rising tide against her, Whitman went to the Oval Office to fight her case on the morning of March 13. But, Bush had already composed his response, shortly to be sent via Cheney to the senators, which he read to her.

“I do not believe,” read the letter, “that the government should impose on power plants mandatory emissions reductions for carbon dioxide, which is not a ‘pollutant’ under the Clean Air Act.”

Information from the Department of Energy had shown that consumers’ energy bills might be affected, and that this warranted a re-evaluation of his earlier pledge, “especially… given the incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes of and solution to global climate change.”

Polluter Pull-Out

Whitman left defeated, just as the puppeteer Cheney arrived to hand-deliver the President’s response to the senators.

By the end of the month, the world’s biggest polluter had pulled out of Kyoto.

Whitman, who later said the decision was “the equivalent to ‘flipping the bird’ frankly to the rest of the world,” was the one to deliver the news. “We have no interest in implementing that treaty,” the former New Jersey Governor told assembled journalists.

Though the terms of the treaty would be finalised in Bonn that July, they would be made all but useless, with the world’s largest polluter out of the game.

Years later, freedom of information disclosures revealed the industry’s input to this decision.

A briefing note prepared for Paula Dobrianksy, Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs, ahead of her meeting with Glenn Kelly of the Exxon-bankrolled Global Climate Coalition, states: “POTUS [President of the United States] rejected Kyoto, in part, based on input from you… Interested in hearing from you, what type of international alternatives to Kyoto would you support?”

This Author

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries(Oxford University Press).He tweets at @EcoMontague. This article first appeared at Desmog.uk.

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http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/22/wash-post-ed-rogers/

In his latest column repeating his clients’ attacks on climate change policies, lobbyist and Washington Post writer Ed Rogersfinally disclosed to readers that his lobbying firm “represents interests in the fossil fuel [industry].”

Rogers is the chairman of BGR Group, a top lobbying firm that has received more than $700,000 from the energy industry in 2015. Rogers has personally lobbied this year for Southern Company, one of the largest electric utility companies in the U.S.—and one of the biggest opponents of the most significant U.S. policy to combat climate change.

Rogers’ disclosure, which was placed in a parenthetical in the middle of his Dec. 17 column, could help Post readers recognize that they should take his opinions on the United Nations’ historic Paris climate agreement with a grain of salt (he says it’s a “sham”). And it marks a stark contrast from Rogers’ past columns, in which the Post allowed him to dismiss the scientific consensus on climate change and echo his client’s attacks on climate policies without disclosing his firm’s fossil fuel ties.

The Post’s past failure to require Rogers to disclose his lobbying firm’s clients—both fossil fuel and otherwise—drew criticism from media ethicists. Among them was Ed Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, who said it’s clear that “someone else is paying” Rogers to write his columns and urged the Post to provide “specific disclosure” of Rogers’ clients rather than a “blanket description of him as a lobbyist,” in order to make plain that he “has a horse to back” in his columns.

From Rogers’ Dec. 17 column for The Washington Post’s Post Partisan blog (emphasis added):

“The [Conference of Parties] 21 conference in Paris was the most predictable event of 2015. Of course an agreement was going to be reached and of course that agreement is a sham, but it all fits perfectly with what the climate issue has become. The topic of climate change has become manna for exhausted liberals who have nothing much to say and policy failures on almost every front. (Disclosure: My firm represents interests in the fossil fuel and nuclear power industries.) And let’s face it, global warming is an issue that perfectly suits Obama as he warms up for retirement. He doesn’t really have to do anything, there is never any day of reckoning and it lends itself to sanctimonious moralizing and generally lecturing everybody about how they should live.”

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Client List

New clients since 2004, according to Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed March 16, 2011:

As listed on the company website January 2004, except where referenced:

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Hayly B gets big retainer to not work for the other side (goal: max pay for min work)

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2012 pres cand $:  Over the last few months, a small group of Washington insiders and lobbyists have been laboring quietly to lay the groundwork for a potential Barbour campaign. They include: lobbyist Scott Reed, who ran Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign and was executive director of the RNC under Barbour; former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie; Don Fierce and Kirk Blalock of the GOP lobbying shop Fierce Isakowitz and Blalock; Ed Rogers, his former lobbying partner at Barbour Griffith & Rogers (now known as BGR Group); and pollster Ed Goeas.

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Haley Barbour may run for pres 2012

Republican Governor's Association Chair Haley Barbour

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However, according to media reports at the time, energy industry executives participated in the Task Force. In particular, those identified as having been involved included then-Enron President and Chairman Kenneth Lay and lobbyists Haley Barbour and Marc Racicot.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE),a front group group financed by the biggest coal mining and coal-based utility companies in America, spent more than $92 million during the first two years of the Obama administration, much of it on lobbying and advertising against bills like Waxman Markey. The group gained infamy when one of its consulting firms was caught forging over a dozen letters from local NAACP groups and senior citizens to key lawmakers, asking them to oppose the bill.

One of the recipients of the ACCCE’s largesse was none other than one of Blue Line’s two partners, Michael Meehan. While Meehan led Blue Line’s pro-cap and trade effort, he also served as vice president to an online marketing firm called Virilion. Disclosures show that Virilion, which also rented office space to Blue Line, helped ACCCE manage its anti–cap and trade marketing budget in exchange for $19 million during the two years in which the legislation was debated.

The conflict was complicated by the fact that Meehan, and his partner, David DiMartino, had been employed by an infamous polluter lobbying firm only months prior to taking up the cap-and-trade job.The pair had worked for the BGR Group, a lobbying firm founded by former Republican National Committee chair Haley Barbour, up until the month they were hired by the coalition of environmental groups. While Blue Line worked closely with the Obama administration and its liberal allies, Blue Line maintained a “strategic partnership” with BGR, which at the time counted coal-fired utility giant Southern Company as a major client.

Of course, this conflict of interest was not the only reason Waxman Markey failed. Senator Harry Reid could have written reconciliation rules into the January 2009 budget in order to pass it with fifty-one votes. President Obama could have been more forceful. The lazy traditional media that failed to report on climate crisis, pervasive corruption in Congress, Citizens United providing polluters a greater bludgeon to defeat reform politicians, the USCAP coalition that saddled legislation with industry giveaways and poison pills, the unprecedented lobbying by polluters, the collapse of moderates within the GOP—there are many, many reasons why a climate bill did not pass. But let’s be clear: reformers had issues from the inside as well.

UPDATE: Someone close to the Waxman Markey reform efforts e-mailed to note that in addition to the coalition money spent on field, individual advocacy groups, including the Sierra Club and several other green groups, spent an undisclosed amount on their own grassroots organizing that would bring the total above the $900,000 referenced above. Still, disclosures show the coalition Clean Energy Works spent a disproportionate amount on advertising and media consultants.

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Haley Barbour (R-Miss.)

Governor of Mississippi

Barbour has a history of obstructing climate action (little known fact: he was the lobbyist behind George W. Bush's fateful early decision not to regulate CO2), but these days he's trying to sound more moderate.

On climate science: Barbour "challenged climate science during his past tenure as anoil industry lobbyist and chairman of the Republican National Committee," Politico reports.

More recently, Barbour has talked about reducing greenhouse gases but still sounded not entirely convinced by the science. In 2009, while testifying before the Senate about cap-and-trade, he said, "the reason I am here is that we do need to look at how best, in the best interests of the United States, and most effectively, to deal with the threat that scientists are saying CO2 has for the future of the climate." And in 2010, in praising his state's cleantech businesses, he said, "Whether you think climate change is manmade, whether you think it's inevitable, whatever your view of it is, there's things like we're doing in our state that aregood economics, that are useful and they will reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

On climate policy: In 2001, Barbour sent a memo to the Bush administration arguing that it should drop plans to regulate carbon dioxide; shortly thereafter, it did.

In 2009, Barbour argued in The Washington Times that Obama's cap-and-trade plan "will be the biggest tax increase in history and will clobber low- and middle-income families. ... There are much better ways to address climate change and prudently reduce emissions here and around the world."(He hasn't elaborated on those better ways.)

Over the past year, Barbour has also been rallying governors to fight the EPA's efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.

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Haley Barbouris the Republican Governor of Mississippi. He was formerly a tobacco industry lobbyist based in Washington, D.C. His lobbying firm made $17,150/month plus expenses from R.J. Reynolds in 2000.[1] ^[2]

Barbour won the Mississippi gubernatorial election on November 4, 2003, in part on a pledge to keep Mississippi's state flag design intact, which contains a miniature representation of the Confederate battle flag.[3]

While campaigning, he also appeared at a fund-raiser sponsored by the Conservative Citizen's Council. The CCC is a modern-day version of the White Citizen's Councils that fought racial integration throughout the South in the 1950s and 60s.[4]

Since his election Barbour has championed tort reform, which he describes on his website as a "fight against lawsuit abuse", through the passage of the Tort Reform Act of 2004.

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Barbour's background

Barbour was the Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs for two years during the term of President Ronald Reagan.[5]

Between 1993 and January 1997 Barbour was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee and has strong ties to both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.

In 1991 he founded and, until 1999, was the Chair and CEO of Barbour Griffith & Rogers. According to Barbour, the firm was sold to the Interpublic Group of Companies in 1999. Part of the sale deal was that the name remain the same even though Barbour no longer had a financial stake in the company.[6]

"In 2000 Haley chaired the Bush for President Campaign Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C. He was one of ten members of Governor Bush’s National Presidential Exploratory Committee in 1999," a biographical note states.[7]

Barbour on climate change

In August 2001 Judy Pasternak reported in the Los Angeles Times that while working as a lobbyist for electricity generators on March 1, 2001 Barbour wrote to Dick Cheney urging the Bush administration to reverse its promise to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

"A moment of truth is arriving," Barbour wrote. "Clinton-Gore policies meant less energy and more expensive energy. Most Americans thought Bush-Cheney would mean more energy, and more affordable energy," he wrote.[8]

"The question is whether environmental policy still prevails over energy policy with Bush-Cheney, as it did with Clinton-Gore," Barbour wrote in the two-page memo.[9]

Associated Press reported that Barbour wrote that "he was 'demurring' on the idea of whether regulating CO2 emissions was 'eco-extremism.'" "We must ask, do environmental initiatives, which would greatly exacerbate the energy problems, trump good energy policy, which the country has lacked for eight years?" he wrote.[9]

Comments on Hurricane Katrina

Contact details

Official website: http://www.governorbarbour.com/

Campaign website: http://www.haleybarbour.com/

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References

  1. ↑ John Mott Coffey Cigarette prices rise on Friday Coumbus, Missisippi Commercial Dispatch, May 14, 2009
  2. ↑ Lanny Griffith, Barbour Griffith and Rogers, Tommy Payne, R.J. Reynolds We are delighted the R .J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) has chosen to reengage Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc . (BG&R) Letter/contract. May 31, 2000. 2 pp. Bates No. 522493981/3982
  3. ↑ Intelligence Report: "'Southern Strategy'. In Mississippi, race and flag color gubernatorial campaign," Southern Poverty Law Center, Winter 2003.
  4. ↑ Council of Conservative Citizens website.
  5. ↑ Governor, GovernorBarbour.com.
  6. ↑ This Sun Herald link is no longer active.
  7. ↑ Biography, HaleyBarbour.com.
  8. ↑ Judy Pasternak, "Going Backwards: Bush's Energy Plan Bares Industry Clout Cheney-led task force consulted extensively with corporate executives. Its findings boosted their interests. Environmental groups had little voice," Los Angeles Times (Common Dreams), August 26, 2001.
  9. ↑ ^9.0^ ^9.1^ Christopher Newton, "Going Backwards: White House Shifted Carbon Dioxide Emissions Policy After Lobbyist's Letter," Associated Press (Common Dreams), April 26, 2002.  http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0426-04.htm

Going Backwards

White House Shifted Carbon Dioxide Emissions Policy After Lobbyist's Letter
by Christopher Newton

WASHINGTON When President Bush reversed his campaign stance on regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, he said the nation's energy problems – not pressure from energy industry lobbyists – changed his mind.

Documents released by the Bush administration Thursday in response to a court order shed light on the intense pressure the new president was under.

Two weeks before Bush's decision, lobbyist Haley Barbour virtually papered the White House, from Vice President Dick Cheney on down, with a memo suggesting the president must provide a sound energy policy by not taking action against carbon dioxide.

At the time, Barbour represented the interests of several energy companies that gave substantially to Bush's campaign.

"A moment of truth is arriving," Barbour wrote Cheney on March 1, 2001, in a two-page document on his lobbying firm letterhead that was copied into top White House officials and three Cabinet secretaries.

"The question is whether environmental policy still prevails over energy policy with Bush-Cheney, as it did with Clinton-Gore," Barbour stated.

TheCommerce Department released a copy of the memo Thursday in a court case brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch, which is suing the Bush administration for records about White House energy policy. The memo was one of thousands of pages of documents released by the departments of Commerce, Energy and Transportation.

Late Thursday, White House spokesman Jimmy Orr said Bush was not unduly influenced by the energy industry.

"The president based his decision on what he believes is right for all Americans and has pursued the most aggressive initiative in American history to cut power-plant emissions as well as embarking on a new strategy for addressing global climate change," Orr said. "The president makes his decisions based on merit."

In the memo, Barbour said he was "demurring" on the idea of whether regulating CO2 emissions was "eco-extremism."

But "we must ask, do environmental initiatives, which would greatly exacerbate the energy problems, trump good energy policy, which the country has lacked for eight years?" said the former RNC chairman.

Among Barbour's 50 lobbying clients at the time was an industry coalition, the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council. The lobbying group – which paid Barbour's firm a half-million dollars last year – was set up by power-generation companies including FirstEnergy, Duke Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

FirstEnergy was a top contributor to the Bush campaign.

As part of his presidential campaign, Bush proposed a "four-pollutant strategy" for curbing mercury, smog-causing nitrogen oxide, sulfur and carbon dioxide. The new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Christie Whitman, embraced the strategy, but references to it were removed at the last minute from Bush's first address to a joint session of Congress.

Then in mid-March of last year, Bush changed course.

"For the eight years of the Clinton administration environmental policy prevailed over energy policy," Barbour said in his signed memo to Cheney, with copies to Karl Rove, Bush's top political strategist; chief of staff Andrew Card; Commerce Secretary Don Evans; Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham; and Interior Secretary Gale Norton.

The documents released Thursday also revealed constant contact between Evans and corporate energy executives regarding the Bush administration's energy policy. Evans, the former head of an oil and natural gas company, helped Bush raise a record amount of money during the 2000 presidential campaign.

In the documents, Evans personally responded to letters from top officials at Great Northern Properties, Hunt Energy Services, Fusion Power Associates and Barrett Resources Corp.

Great Northern Properties sent the Commerce Department a full analysis of what should be done to bolster the coal industry.

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BGR Holdings LLC

BGR Holdings LLC, previously called Barbour Griffith & Rogers, is a Washington D.C.-based public relations and lobbying company that boasts its operating philosophy is "performance based: a proactive, creative approach to solving problems and aggressively seeking results". ^[1]^

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Controversies

Fundraiser for Wisconsin anti-worker rights politicians

On March 16, 2011, BGR hosted a lavish, Washington, D.C. fundraiser for Wisconsin Republican politicians. Guests were expected to donate a minimum of $1,000 at the door. They could become "sponsors" by donating $2,500 or "hosts" by donating $5,000. Guests included Wisconsin's Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and the state's Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald. The event was held just days after Republicans in Wisconsin's legislature voted 18-1 to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees. The vote was held with no Democrats in attendance. All five Republican members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation were invited to attend the D.C. fundraiser, along with Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson.[2][3]

The fundraiser sparked protest from pro-worker groups and workers' rights supporters who gathered in front of BGR Group offices to draw attention to Wisconsin Republicans' union-busting bill, and their subsequent efforts to raise money from out-of-state corporations in support of their actions.[4]

History

The company was founded in 1991. On its website it states "the firm represents a diverse, blue-chip clientele which includes Fortune 500 companies, international governments, trade associations, non-profits, academic institutions, hospitals, coalitions, and state and local governments. "[5]

In a profile on the company and its strong connections with the Republican Party, Thomas B. Edsall wrote in the Washington Post that "in less than a decade, the Barbour Griffith & Rogers lobbying shop has become one of the most profitable operations in Washington". ^[6]

According to Haley Barbour, who was sworn in as the Governor of Mississippi in January 2004, the firm was sold to the Interpublic Group of Companies in 1999. Part of the sale deal was that the name remain the same, even though Barbour no longer had a financial stake in the company. ^[7]^

However in June 2004 O'Dwyers PR Daily reported that BG&R was discussing buying a controlling interest in itself back from Interpublic. It reported that "the former Republican National Committee chairman has put his stake in BG&R into a blind trust. He has said that he isn't sure whether he will return to BG&R after he leaves office ^[8]^

In a September 2003 article on his blog site, Josh Marshall wrote thatNew Bridge Strategies -- a company established to help clients win Iraq reconstruction contracts -- "looks an awful lot like an outgrowth of Barbour Griffith and Rogers". [1]

In June 2004, O'Dwyers PR Daily reported BG&R recorded $1.6M in fees in 2003, according to Roll Call. ^[9]^

Clients

Domestic (U.S.)

In May 2002, BG&R indicated that on behalf of Virginia-based United Defense it would lobby in favor of theCrusader $11 billion artillery system. Despite attending a strategy session in mid-May 2002, BG&R subsequently decided to drop the account. "The White House contacted BG&R when it heard that the firm was going to represent the Crusader. That contact resulted in BG&R dropping the account," O'Dwyers reported. ^[10]^

In October 2002, Haley Barbour headed up a team "on corporate governance issues" for Citigroup, with assistance with Jennifer Larkin, Dan Murphy and Loren Monroe. "Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney brokerage house faces various probes concerning potential analysts' conflict of interest and how it allocated shares in initial public offerings. On October 14, Citicorp denied charges in a lawsuit filed by New York State Comptroller Carl McCall - who is also running for Governor - that its Travelers insurance unit made improper loans to Bernie Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom," O'Dwyers reported.[11]

International

In June 2002, 'O'Dwyers PR Daily reported that BG&R had gained a $30,000-a-month contract with the Embassy of Bolivia "to deal with tactical planning, trade and appropriations matters." The BG&R team was headed by Barbour and also included Keith Schuette, "a former president of the International Republican Institute, and Scott Barnhart. "Bolivia scored a coup on the trade front as Congress agreed to reduce tariffs on canned tuna, textiles and cut flowers to encourage it, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to fight the drug trade," reported O'Dwyer's. ^[12]^

In July 2004, the Kurdish Democratic Party retained BG&R, "to ensure that Iraqi Kurdistan maintains its autonomy from Baghdad in the new Iraq Government" and for the "return of oil-rich Kirkuk, which Saddam Hussein had "Arabized" as the capital of the region, to Kurdistan." [2]

In February 2005, O'Dwyers PR Daily reported that the government of Qatar had "hired Barbour Griffith & Rogers to a $300K pact to smooth relations with the Bush Administration."[13]

In August 2006, the Washington Post reported that BG&R was working for the "National Dialogue Party of Lebanon and its chairman, Fouad Makhzoumi. The Republican shop registered to lobby for the Lebanese party in mid-June, with an effective start date of April 15." After armed hostilities between the Israeli government and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia began in July 2006, BG&R started promoting "Makhzoumi's message of support for a cease-fire and a diplomatic solution to policymakers in Washington." The contract totaled $300,000 over six months.[14]

BG&R had also registered with the State Department "to 'provide guidance and counsel' on foreign policy to the embassy of Eritrea. That contract, which paid $65,000 a month for six months, or a total of $390,000, expired last month," the Washington Post reported in August 2006. [3]

BGR’s involvement and efforts in 2007 in ousting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to replace him with former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, were documented in hundreds of emails sent in Allawi’s name, Think Progress reported in 2007.[15]

Allawi was called “Saddam lite” by Slate in 2004[16] for his “mostly rhetorical” toughness and alleged courting of insurgents. Robert Blackwill, the lead BGR lobbyist on the account, oversaw the creation of the new Iraqi government, National Public Radio reported in 2007.[17]

BG&R landed a $60,000 a month contract to represent Serbia. The contract, which was signed by Serbia's Minister for International Economic Relations, Milan Parivodic, runs until January 2009. Serbia has been criticized for being half-hearted in its cooperation with investigations into war crimes committed during the 1990's. [4] (sub req'd)

BGR has also had extensive contact with the Embassy of Poland in 2008-2009.[18]

Client List

New clients since 2004, according to Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed March 16, 2011:

As listed on the company website January 2004, except where referenced:

Former Clients

Political contributions

Lanny Griffith, Chief Executive Officer of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, is a Bush Rangerhaving raised at least $200,000 for Bush in the 2004 presidential election. ^[21]^

Barbour, Griffith and Rogers gave $73,603 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 100% to Republicans. ^[22]^

Personnel

Current staff: ^[23]^

Former staff

Contact information

Barbour Griffith & Rogers

Tenth Floor 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20004

Tel: (202)333 4936

Fax: (202)833 9392

Email: information AT bgrdc.com

Web: http://www.bgrdc.com

References

  1. ↑ Barbour, Griffith and Rogers Profile Approach Accessed October 3, 2007 - the statement quoted is no longer on its current website, noted as of March 16, 2011)
  2. ↑ David Green BGR Group Hosting $1,000 Fundraiser For Wisconsin Republicans, Gather.com, March 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Evan McMorris-Santoro Report: Major DC Lobby Firm Throwing Fundraiser For Wisconsin GOP Leaders, Talking Points Memo, TPMDC, March 11, 2011
  4. ↑ People for the American Way PFAW Rallies to Support Wisconsin’s Workers, press release, March 16, 2011
  5. ↑ BGRDC BGR About, organizational web site, accessed March 16, 2011
  6. ↑ Thomas B. Edsall Another Lobbyist Emerges From the GOP Trenches, Washington Post, Page A15. January 13, 2004
  7. ↑ Aziz Haniffa Blackwill factor in US lobbying firm deal, Rediff News, September 17, 2005
  8. ↑ O'Dwyers BG&R Nears Buyback, June 1, 2004
  9. ↑ O'Dwyers BG&R Nears Buyback, June 1, 2004
  10. ↑ O'Dwyers [http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/archived_stories_2002/may/0521crusader.htm BG&R SHOOTS DOWN CRUSADER AFTER TWO DAYS], May 21, 2002
  11. ↑ O'Dwyers CITIGROUP HIRES BG&R, October 17, 2002
  12. ↑ O'Dwyers BOLIVIA INKS DEAL WITH BG&R, June 6, 2002
  13. ↑ O'Dwers QATAR HIRES BG&R, February 1, 2005
  14. ↑ Judy Sarasohn Clients Don't Come Much Hotter, Washington Post, August 3, 2006
  15. ↑ Think Progress Right-Wing Operatives Plot To Overthrow Maliki, Replace Him With Reliable Collaborator Allawi, Think Progress, August 23, 2007
  16. ↑ Slate Magazine Iyad Allawi: Is Iraq's new strongman strong enough?, Slate Magazine, August 3, 2004
  17. ↑ National Public Radio Lobby Firm Tied to Bush Aids Allawi in Ouster Bid, National Public Radio, August 24, 2007
  18. ↑ Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker Barbour, Griffith & Rogers contacts for Embassy of Poland, accessed March 16, 2011
  19. ↑ Lobbying Disclosure Act Database BGR, accessed March 16, 2011
  20. ↑ ^20.00^ ^20.01^ ^20.02^ ^20.03^ ^20.04^ ^20.05^ ^20.06^ ^20.07^ ^20.08^ ^20.09^ ^20.10^ ^20.11^ ^20.12^ ^20.13^ ^20.14^ ^20.15^ ^20.16^ ^20.17^ ^20.18^ ^20.19^ ^20.20^ ^20.21^ ^20.22^ ^20.23^ ^20.24^ ^20.25^ ^20.26^ ^20.27^ ^20.28^ ^20.29^ ^20.30^ ^20.31^ ^20.32^ ^20.33^ ^20.34^ ^20.35^ ^20.36^ ^20.37^ ^20.38^ ^20.39^ ^20.40^ ^20.41^ ^20.42^ ^20.43^ ^20.44^ ^20.45^ ^20.46^ ^20.47^ ^20.48^ ^20.49^ ^20.50^ ^20.51^ ^20.52^ ^20.53^ ^20.54^ ^20.55^ ^20.56^ ^20.57^ ^20.58^ ^20.59^ ^20.60^ ^20.61^ ^20.62^ ^20.63^ ^20.64^ ^20.65^ ^20.66^ ^20.67^ ^20.68^ ^20.69^ ^20.70^ ^20.71^ ^20.72^ ^20.73^ ^20.74^ ^20.75^ ^20.76^ ^20.77^ ^20.78^ ^20.79^ ^20.80^ ^20.81^ ^20.82^ ^20.83^ ^20.84^ ^20.85^ ^20.86^ ^20.87^ ^20.88^ ^20.89^ ^20.90^ ^20.91^ ^20.92^ ^20.93^ ^20.94^ ^20.95^ Barbour, Griffith & Rogers client list. Opensecrets.org. Retrieved on 25 October 2007.
  21. ↑ Lanny Griffith, Texans for Public Justice, accessed August 2007.
  22. ↑ 2006 PAC Summary Data, Open Secrets, accessed August 2007.
  23. ↑ Bios, Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, accessed August 2007.
  24. ↑ Lucy Madison Haley Barbour Won't Denounce Proposal Honoring Confederate General, Early KKK Leader, CNS News, February 16, 2011

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