Trump's sherpas
Experts guide the president-elect's nominees through the Senate confirmation process.🙄 Here's a partial list of the so-called sherpas, compiled from interviews with members of Trump's transition team and Republicans close to them. politico.com/story/2016/12/… #Koch
Experts guide the president-elect's nominees through the Senate confirmation process.🙄 Here's a partial list of the so-called sherpas, compiled from interviews with members of Trump's transition team and Republicans close to them. politico.com/story/2016/12/… #Koch
The DCI Group, LLC is the top Republican lobby and public relations firm. ties to ALEC/ Koch #KochNetwork etc. etc. etc. sourcewatch.org/index.php/DCI_… 
DCI Group also has connections to the Tea Party, having done lobbying for both Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. DCI Group has also done significant lobbying for the tobacco industry including Altria (previously Phillip Morris) desmogblog.com/dci-group
Megan Barnett Bloomgren serves as the senior vice president of Communications at the American Petroleum Institute (API) api.org/about/megan-bl…
“With a Koch crony in charge of records requests, the department will work in darkness. Public records that might shame Zinke or big polluters will be covered up, and our public lands and wildlife will suffer.” thehill.com/policy/energy-…
Alex Flint, former staff director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a former executive at the Nuclear Energy Institute, is also working with Zinke. sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nucl…
Blain Rethmeier, a former Bush White House spokesman, is working with retired Gen. John Kelly, whom Trump has tapped for Homeland Security.
Chad Kolton, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Bush administration, is a sherpa for the federal intelligence agencies. sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chad…
Tara Bradshaw, former Treasury Department spokesperson, Barney Keller, former communications director👉Club for Growth, & Mary Waters, assistant secretary 4 congressional relations in Bush's Agriculture Department,rworking w/Steven Mnuchin, Trump's choice for treasury secretary.
politico.com/amp/story/2018… Barney Keller, a Jamestown partner who formerly worked as a Club for Growth spokesman, called the charges untrue.👉 In a memo, Club president David McIntosh accused the firm of telling candidates it could influence the Club's endorsement process.
Club for Growth is a right-wing political group established in 1999 by Stephen Moore that endorses and raises money for candidates. Koch/ #KochNetwork sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club…
Mnuchin, Thread
Christian Whiton, a former State Department official, is working with Rex Tillerson, Trump's nominee for secretary of state. sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chri…
John Czwartacki, a former director of public affairs at FEMA, is working on the nominees for the Small Business Administration, Office of Management and Budget and the United States Trade Representative, once the pick for the latter post is announced.
Can you guess who the highest-paid West Wing staffer is?
The $239,595 salary is roughly $56,000 more than the top echelon of White House staff. John Czwartacki politico.com/amp/story/2019…
The $239,595 salary is roughly $56,000 more than the top echelon of White House staff. John Czwartacki politico.com/amp/story/2019…
Diane Cullo, a former spokeswoman for a trade group representing produce companies, will work with the pending agriculture secretary nominee.
Marc Palazzo, a former lobbyist for a Koch Industries subsidiary, and Brian Waidmann, a former top aide to Bush interior secretaries Dirk Kempthorne and Gale Norton, are working with Rick Perry, Trump's pick for energy secretary.
Palazzo
Dirk Kempthorne👉 Bush, "selecting a pro-development Western Republican to push for more oil and gas drilling,” urged the Senate to move quickly on his nomination." sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dirk…
Dirk Kempthorne, ties to American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Koch #KochNetwork 2001 received from ALEC the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award, its highest honor.
Gale Norton👉 the first woman to head the U.S. Department of the Interior, was sworn in January 2001. Especially click on link highlights as shown in screenshot for ties to Koch/Coors/Scaife, Walton,Bradley etc.etc.etc. sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gale…
Rick Perry/ Koch etc. thread
Sery Kim, a former Bush Health and Human Services official, is a sherpa for Seema Verma, whom Trump tapped to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; politico.com/amp/story/2019…
Seema Verma
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, whom he picked to be ambassador to China; and the yet-to-be named head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Ties to ALEC/ Koch #KochNetwork sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terr…
Earl Comstock, a KochNetwork funded Federalist Society member and longtime former Senate Commerce Committee staffer, is working with Commerce choice Wilbur Ross. etc. fedsoc.org/contributors/e…
Cynthia Berry — a former staffer to former Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Washington counsel for the American Medical Association — is working with Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s choice to lead HHS.
Jon Kyl / bit of a thread
Jon Kyl/ thread
Jon Kyl/ thread
Tom Price/ thread
Townsend McNitt, a former Bush Education Department official, is advising Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for education secretary.
Drew Maloney, vice president of global government affairs and public policy at the oil company Hess, is the sherpa for Andrew Puzder, Trump's pick for labor secretary. politico.com/amp/story/2018…
Andy Puzder is a board member of Job Creator Network etc.👉 The Billionaire Trump Donors Behind the “Job Creators Network” news.littlesis.org/2019/02/21/the…
Keith Appell, a longtime public relations executive, is working with Sen. Jeff Sessions, the pick for attorney general. Keith Appell — Senior Vice President CRC Public Relations (Creative Response Concepts) desmogblog.com/crc-public-rel…
DJ Nordquist, a well-known chief-of-staff and communications director in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution, is helping Ben Carson through the confirmation process for HUD secretary.
Ms. DJ Nordquist is the World Bank Group Executive Director worldbank.org/en/about/peopl…
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Ben Carson #KochNetwork
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American Future Fund sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amer…
Top GOP fundraiser tied to the land where Iowa murder suspect lived,
nicole schlinger chicagotribune.com/nation-world/c…
nicole schlinger chicagotribune.com/nation-world/c…
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