Muckety is a website that maps out the relationships that exist among people in national politics. Its a great way to get used to the connections that allow poeple to get where they get.
Click here for the map surrounding Chuck Hagel and John Brennan.
While were; at it here's Jacob Lew and John Kerry.
My advice to you if you want to rise the ladder in whatever you do? Get connected. It aint what you know, its who you know. But you knew that.
Showing posts with label influence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influence. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Payroll Tax Cut and the Stock Act
Staying in touch with Congress:
- 8 Things You Didn’t Know about Payroll Tax-Cut Deal.
- Louise Slaughter, Tim Walz Press for STOCK Act Conference Committee.
A hang up with the STOCK Act is whether it will require "political intelligence consultants" to register in the same way lobbyists do. House Republicans want to remove these provisions, the bill's authors do not.
If you, like me, have no real idea what the political intelligence business industry is, here's background.
It turns out that the political intelligence industry is something that sprang up as a way to convey inside information to hedge funds and mutual funds. Although it’s illegal to trade on the basis of inside information about public companies, it’s perfectly legal, in most instances, to trade on the basis of inside information about stuff the government does. So these hedge funds and mutual funds (and, to a lesser extent, other Wall Street investors) hire “expert network” companies like Gerson Lehrman, Coleman Research Group, Inc., and Public Insight LP to tell them the latest on what Washington will or won’t do, and when. The expert network firms operate worldwide collecting all kinds of information for investors, but lately they’ve been ramping up their activities in Washington.
- 8 Things You Didn’t Know about Payroll Tax-Cut Deal.
- Louise Slaughter, Tim Walz Press for STOCK Act Conference Committee.
A hang up with the STOCK Act is whether it will require "political intelligence consultants" to register in the same way lobbyists do. House Republicans want to remove these provisions, the bill's authors do not.
If you, like me, have no real idea what the political intelligence business industry is, here's background.
It turns out that the political intelligence industry is something that sprang up as a way to convey inside information to hedge funds and mutual funds. Although it’s illegal to trade on the basis of inside information about public companies, it’s perfectly legal, in most instances, to trade on the basis of inside information about stuff the government does. So these hedge funds and mutual funds (and, to a lesser extent, other Wall Street investors) hire “expert network” companies like Gerson Lehrman, Coleman Research Group, Inc., and Public Insight LP to tell them the latest on what Washington will or won’t do, and when. The expert network firms operate worldwide collecting all kinds of information for investors, but lately they’ve been ramping up their activities in Washington.
Monday, June 8, 2009
On Elected Judges
From the NYT:
In a closely watched case involving the confluence of justice, politics and money, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution can require an elected judge to step aside in a particular case based on campaign spending in state judicial races.
Read Capperton v. Massey.
In a closely watched case involving the confluence of justice, politics and money, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution can require an elected judge to step aside in a particular case based on campaign spending in state judicial races.
Read Capperton v. Massey.
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