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Keywords For Marc Racicot:
Corporate Interests, Environment, Ethics
BACKGROUND:
Led
the charge to block the recount of LEGAL votes in Florida during Election
2000 and was rewarded with the RNC Chair.
AMMO
(Corporate Interests,
Anti-Environment)
FACT:
Marc Racicot, the new head of the Republican National Committee, was also
representing seven different lobbying organizations. Of course, the GOP
claimed that there would be absolutely no hint of a conflict of interest.
So it is interesting to note that the Bush administration is preparing
to announce regulatory changes which would favor big corporations and seriously
weaken the 1970 Clean Air Act. "If these changes are implemented as we
understand, industry would be allowed to increase their emissions significantly
more than what they would be allowed under existing law," said S. William
Becker, executive director of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program
Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials.
Not that this is much of a surprise for an administration as anti-environment
as this one. So what does this all have to do with Marc Racicot? Well,
one of the lobbying organizations he works for have been recently engaged
in intensive lobbying to weaken the Clean Air Act. It looks like having
the head of the RNC on your team can do wonders for your lobbying power.
Conflict of interest? Nonsense!
(Ethics, Corporate
Interests)
FACT:
When Jim Gilmore was fired as head of the RNC earlier this year his replacement
was chosen quickly. Marc Racicot - successful politician and close friend
of George W. Bush, was nominated to fill the empty chair. However, according
to the Washington Post, Racicot is also a "major player in Washington's
lobbying industry." And he has no intention to step down from that role,
even as he heads the party that holds both the White House and the House
of Representatives. Racicot is currently registered as a lobbyist with
seven organizations, (including Enron) but he is sticking with the National
Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, who is currently engaged in
intensive lobbying to weaken the Clean Air Act. Last week, Jennifer Palmieri,
a spokeswoman for the DNC, said, "There is a real potential there for abuse,
but the decision is ultimately up to the Republican Party."
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