[Peace-discuss] Fw: EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Public Option

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Sirota" <ds at davidsirota.com>
To: <unionyes at ameritech.net>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:51 PM
Subject: EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She 
Begins Backing Off Public Option


> http://www.openleft.com/diary/15066/unitedhealth-lobbyist-announces-big-fundraiser-for-pelosi-as-she-backs-off-public-option
>
> BREAKING NEWS: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As
> She Begins Backing Off Public Option
>
> By David Sirota
>
> OpenLeft, 9/11/09
>
> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time yesterday suggested she
> may be backing off her support of the public option - the
> government-run health plan that the private insurance industry is
> desperately trying to kill. According to CNN, Pelosi and Senate
> Majority Leader Harry Reid "said they would support any provision
> that increases competition and accessibility for health insurance -
> whether or not it is the public option favored by most Democrats."
>
> This announcement came just hours before Steve Elmendorf, a
> registered UnitedHealth lobbyist and the head of UnitedHealth's
> lobbying firm Elmendorf Strategies, blasted this email invitation
> throughout Washington, D.C. I just happened to get my hands on a copy
> of the invitation from a source - check it out:
>
> From: Steve Elmendorf [mailto:steve at elmendorfstrategies.com]
>
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:31 AM
>
> Subject: event with Speaker Pelosi at my home
>
> You are cordially invited to a reception with
>
> Speaker of the House
>
> Nancy Pelosi
>
> Thursday, September 24, 2009
>
> 6:30pm ~ 8:00pm
>
> At the home of
>
> Steve Elmendorf
>
> 2301 Connecticut Avenue, NW
>
> Apt. 7B
>
> Washington, D.C.
>
> $5,000 PAC
>
> $2,400 Individual
>
> To RSVP or for additional information please contact
>
> Carmela Clendening at (202) 485-3508 or clendening at dccc.org
>
> Steve Elmendorf
>
> ELMENDORF STRATEGIES
>
> GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS SOLUTIONS
>
> 900 7th Street NW Suite 750 Washington DC 20001
>
> (202) 737-1655
>
> Again, Elmendorf is a registered lobbyist for UnitedHealth, and his
> firm's website brags about its work for UnitedHealth on its website.
>
> The sequencing here is important: Pelosi makes her announcement and
> then just hours later, the fundraising invitation goes out.
> Coincidental? I'm guessing no - these things rarely ever are.
>
> I wrote a book a few years ago called Hostile Takeover whose premise
> was that corruption and legalized bribery has become so widespread
> that nobody in Washington even tries to hide it. This is about as
> good an example of that truism as I've ever seen.
>
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