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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
SOPA SUCKS
What a great con...
...make up shit that needs enforcement and government oversight (i.e., $$$) then take the same $$$ as legal afterwards: brilliant.
Wished I'd of thought of it except I LOVE MY COUNTRY AND IT'S PEOPLE ENOUGH NOT TO CHEAT IT OUT OF $$$. PARASITES = Halataei and Pasternack . FIRE THEM NOW AND FOR GOOD. YOU DO NOT DESERVE A DIME OF MINE.JOE Q. CITIZEN
SEE HERE:
Congressional staffers behind SOPA get shiny new jobs as entertainment industry lobbyists
By Cory Doctorow at 5:55 am Sunday, Dec 11
Allison Halataei (former deputy chief of staff for House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)) and Lauren Pastarnack (former senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee) have cool new jobs. Having written the Internet-destroying Stop Online Piracy Act for their bosses while drawing a salary at public expense, they've now accepted massive raises to go work for the entertainment companies who stand to benefit from the law they wrote. Their new job? Helping to run the campaign to push their law through.
Halataei recently joined the National Music Publishers’ Association, and Pastarnack is jumping to the Motion Pictures Association of America, two lobbying groups pressing Congress to pass the proposals...
“This is one of those mega-fights where there is a lot of money at stake and whenever it gets to that, it’s kind of ‘Katy bar the door’ as far as what they’ll pay for talent,” said McCormick Group headhunter Ivan Adler. “This fits into the perfect scenario of why senior-level people from well-placed committees get hired, and it’s because they really know the three p’s: people, policy and process. And that makes them very valuable in the Washington marketplace.”
The former aides will face one-year lobbying bans, which means they cannot lobby the respective committees where they previously worked. But those bans don’t render the former aides useless to their new employers.
“They can provide invaluable insight to people on the outside — even in the consultation mode,” one tech industry lobbyist said, noting that Halataei had been Smith’s secondhand person and knows how the Texas Republican thinks and what would be an effective lobbying strategy.
Additionally, the Senate and House panels work closely together, and both Halataei and Pastarnack have ties to staffers in the chambers they didn’t serve in and aren’t banned from lobbying.