jraeyre wrote:
Who said the lobbyist was a Republican???

My experience is that party affiliation has little to do with lobbyists work unless they are working for their own party.

Jra

Well, this lobbyist worked for republicans;

Galena, situated in the state's all-but-unpopulated west central region, secured millions of dollars in federal and state funds to save the city from financial ruin and imminent state government stewardship. Kent Dawson, a lobbyist in Alaska, and John Roots, a lobbyist based in Washington, D.C., who previously worked for the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), were integral in securing this money.


By the way, they are going to need roads built for those big trucks to get to the northern part of Alaska if and when most of the ice doesn't ice over as usual in the winter.  It is like Texas water, now we either don't have it when our summers are earlier and earlier and major grass fires (150000 acres this year) or have to much when flash flooding starts and the water doesn't necessarily come from rain in Texas.  

Republicans, the party of
DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO