K Street Project Still In Business
by digby
They may have scaled back, but they’re still working it. You can’t make this stuff up:
A small Wall Street securities firm has teamed up with a lobbyist for the financial services industry to host an all-day event on June 15 — right in the middle of the conference committee negotiations over the financial reform bill — that will feature “the KEY House and Senate Conferees and majority and minority Committee staff, as well as leading financial lobbyists covering interchange, banks and major non-banks affected by so-called Wall Street Reform bill,” according to an invitation obtained by TPM. The firm, JNK Securities Corp., declined to comment about the event. The other firm helping to organize the event, according to the email invitation, is Federal Advisory LLC. The registered agent for Federal Advisory LLC is Tim Rupli, according to Virginia corporation records. Rupli is a former aide to Tom DeLay and now a high-powered Republican lobbyist for the payday lending industry and the community banks trade association, among other clients.
The last I heard about Mr Rupli was this item about the right wing salons in McLean from a while back:
A notice in The Hill for last September’s installment of GOP lobbyist Tim Rupli’s annual Pig Pickin’ party expected around 500 guests, including several senior Capitol Hill staffers, who could enjoy a honky-tonk band and the roasting of three hogs. Alcohol was provided gratis by the DC-based wine and beer wholesalers’ associations.
When the reporter, Brian Beutler called him last week, he said the event may not happen and then hung up. Beutler did some digging and found that this is likely just for Republican lawmakers, which makes it a KStreet project style operation. They haven’t given up their dream of an exclusive GOP/Corporate alliance. They’re just biding their time.
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