Daschle's wife quitting lobby firm

Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:19 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Andrea Mitchell and Michelle Perry
NBC NEWS has confirmed with Linda Daschle, Tom Daschle’s wife, that she is leaving her lobbying firm where she has specialized in aviation and defense issues at the end of the year. She is starting her own public policy firm on transportation and communication issues.

In her new firm, she will not lobby.

In the past, she had been a registered lobbyist for American Airlines, Boeing, Cleveland International Airport, Lockheed Martin and other corporations.

She is also a former acting administrator of the FAA.

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Thanks, Linda, for supporting your husband in his role as Sec of HHC in the Obama Administration by ending your lobbying job (at least for the duration). What a classy precedent to set!

Indie Woman in Denver (Sent Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:30 PM)

She and her husband won't lobby, until the day after Tommy leaves the administration. Then they both can return to the groups they used to lobby for. You know, to get their big bonus payouts for throwing money back to their old lobbying firms.

This would all be so funny if it weren't so tragic.

Wolf Guarding the Chicken Coop (Sent Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:33 PM)

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