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this is a tag for ppl and organizations no longer in the fight, often voted out of office, see also flanked, which means Primaried, almost always from right, eg Tea Party; see also revolving door tag.<div>
</div><div>organizations here have often been outted as bogus, so will reconstitute/rename like Voldemort.
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</div><div>=</div><div><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432137493279_77691" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px 0px; color: rgb(33, 43, 74); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=151ab1da6b&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">CRP’s revolving door data</a>, which we will continue to update, shows that 42 of the 75 who left Capitol Hill at the end of the last Congress or sometime during that two-year term are currently employed — 18 of them by lobbying firms or law firms that also lobby.</p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432137493279_77688" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px 0px; color: rgb(33, 43, 74); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They include, among others, former Sen.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=2cb716fbe0&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Mark Begich</a>&nbsp;(D-Alaska), who lost his bid for re-election and is now a “strategic advisor” at&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=2f795c226e&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck</a>; Rep.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=33ac351abc&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Lee Terry</a>&nbsp;(R-Neb.), one of only two incumbent GOP House members to lose his seat in the 2014 Republican wave and now a senior adviser at&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=4e18aa4a8f&e=44dfb36771" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432137493279_77690" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Kelley, Drye & Warren</a>; and Reps.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=9cc3fe94e2&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Jim Matheson</a>&nbsp;(D-Utah) and&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=19437ec804&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Jack Kingston</a>&nbsp;(R-Ga.), who were both poached by powerhouse firm&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=4443f65012&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Squire Patton Boggs</a>. Matheson retired, while Kingston lost his bid for a Senate seat to&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=11e8a86f12&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 123, 184); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">David Perdue</a>&nbsp;(R).
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