Death Bed Conversions or Trying to Buy Fire Insurance?

A handful of Democrat lobbyists have at least made token attempts to hire a Republican or two as a front for their partisan shops. Unlike Miss Anna (see previous posting), they figure that even a token Republican is better than none. Of course, as you will see in the example below, such "affirmative action" hiring act does not even slow them down in funneling money to Democrats trying to beat the very Republican legislators they do business with.

Attack of the BINOs (Bi-Partisans in Name only)

Naturally, they would prefer to forego hiring any Republicans at all, but most Democrat lobbyists are only going through the motions. For example, a short while back, Johnson & Poss hired an intern for Lamar Alexander straight out of college and listed her as a name lobbyist with several of their clients (now that ought to satisfy those pesky critics among the Republican leadership). We're sure their clients are feeling very prophylactic (and perhaps under-represented) these days.

But one of the most obvious attempts to purchase some GOP good will by hiring a Republican comes from one of the most partisan Democrat lobbyists of them all: Randy Button.

"Are You Randy, Baby?"


Case Study: Randy Button – Capitol Strategy Group

Despite having an unfortunate name that sounds like the title of a B-grade porn movie, Randy Button has and continues to screw the GOP (metaphor intended).

The former two-term Democrat state party chairman, Button has put together a profitable business and shared his success almost exclusively with his Democrat friends. On the federal contributions level, Button has dedicated 100% to Democrats, contributing over $40,000 including nearly $13,000 to the Tenn. Democrat Party in the ever-popular scam of using Democrat federal accounts to hide money from Republican state legislators.

Seeing the writing on the wall, about a year or so ago Button tried to buy himself a Republican passport by hiring a former Republican legislator, Steve Buttry. But that didn't change Button's bias. Up to the time that he hired Buttry, Button gave 100% of his contributions to Democrats. Since hiring Buttry, has Randy changed his stripes? Nah. 100% of Randy’s contributions since hiring Buttry have continued to go to Democrats. Now that’s bipartisanship in action, isn’t it?

All told, over the last several years Button has given over $65,000 exclusively to Democrats, including over $20,000 since he hired his lone Republican.

For his part, Buttry has given just a few hundred bucks to the GOP since signing on with Button.

Cleary, Randy is not paying Steve enough.

Facebook Faceoff -- Day14.


How long before the Cock Crows for Nathan Poss?

As reported by LDL, Republican wannabe Nathan Poss is acting all GOP and stuff, yet his hard-core Democrat roots are showing up in unexpected places. On Poss’s personal homepage on Facebook under "Likes and Interests" he highlights mostly Democrats, including linking to his friend Mike McWherter’s campaign site.

But does Poss even mention the most recent target of his amorous (read: sucking up) advances – Bill Haslam? Does he link to him? Has he, like several thousand other Tennesseans, even added Haslam to his "Friends" list?

Nope.

Still waiting, Nathan. Gee, Judas Iscariot 'fessed up faster than this…..


Coming Up:

Miller & Martin, Mandy & Moola

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Even more Johnson, Poss: “Money Laundering” vs. “Money Drycleaning”

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Take a Number: You lobbyist will be with you shortly.