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Mannix's Moonlighting - [OR] GOP chairman is on Big Business' payroll-literally
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 27, 2005 07:55pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, April 21, 2005 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The news last week that Oregon Republican Party chairman Kevin Mannix gets paid to lobby for laws designed to make it harder to sue corporations got treated almost like an afterthought.
But Mannix's lobbying makes an intriguing political play heading into next election year. While building up chits with business could help his all-but-announced second run for governor, doing lobbyist duty now could hurt Mannix's credibility-and that of the state GOP.
"That's kind of unusual to sort of be a combination chair and lobbyist," says Bob Stern, a California-based political-ethics expert with the nonpartisan nonprofit Center for Governmental Studies. "The bottom-line question is, who's he representing? And can legislators and the public distinguish them?" |
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