http://www.triplepundit.com/2006/05/terrapass-takes-on-ford-over-cei-ads/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2006/05/terrapass-takes-on-ford-over-cei-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-13910 john Laumer Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:59:03 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2006/05/terrapass-takes-on-ford-over-cei-ads/#comment-13910 Most likely somebody with Ford has a DC office and is full time dedicated to giving money to PACs and Think Tanks and such, as CEI is but one example. The rules of today's "K-Street" game are that you give money to Administration's favorite causes or you get no pull whatsoever on issues that matter to you when they come along. I don't know this for a fact but it is a reasonable hypothesis for explaining why closure was not reached. Most likely somebody with Ford has a DC office and is full time dedicated to giving money to PACs and Think Tanks and such, as CEI is but one example. The rules of today’s “K-Street” game are that you give money to Administration’s favorite causes or you get no pull whatsoever on issues that matter to you when they come along. I don’t know this for a fact but it is a reasonable hypothesis for explaining why closure was not reached.

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