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Cleveland.com
Democratic Donors Bypass Obama to Map Strategy for Recovery
November 19, 2010
"In another sign of Democratic unrest, a dozen prominent Democrats -- including longtime Bill Clinton adviser Harold Ickes, labor leader Andy Stern and representatives of influential interest groups -- will meet Monday to discuss whether to form a new operation to combat the many outside groups launched this year by Karl Rove and other Republican strategists, according to multiple participants."
Georgetown University
Rather, Kucinich Reflect on Midterm Elections
November 8, 2010
"Panelists also included Henry Olsen, director of the American Enterprise Institute’s National Research Initiative; Harold Ickes, former deputy chief of staff to President Clinton; Adam Boulton, Sky News political editor; James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute; and Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau chief."
Caribbean Business
"'Ickes, with partner Janice Ann Enright, has also remained immersed in legal and lobbying work through The Ickes & Enright Group, Inc., which was formed in 2007, and related firms. They have offered expert consulting services in the area since the 1980s with the exception of their years in the White House from 1993 through 1996."
Caribbean Business
"'It's coming together from a purely political point of view. The increasing importance of the Hispanic vote will put pressure stateside on Democrats to do something about Puerto Rico,' said Ickes, who has been involved in helping engineer presidential campaigns for some 40 years."
Politico
Democrats have most to lose in redrawing of House districts by
governors
April 13, 2010
"'Former Bill Clinton adviser Harold Ickes, who has close ties to the party’s big donors, has been tapped to head a new organization called Project Surge — as in stop Republican gerrymandering."
Salon.com
Census means votes later -- and cash now
April 6, 2010
"'Ex-Hillary Clinton confidant Harold Ickes is doing similar work for the Democrats.' 'People who have a history of giving to the DGA ... they get it,' Ickes told Salon. Most of his work for the group is focusing on big donors. 'But the people who don't have a history, they're sort of, 'Why are you talking to me about governors? I deal with senators and presidents and members of the House.'"
Washington Post
Democrats counter Republicans' pre-redistricting push
March 22, 2010
"Hoping to counter a series of Republican efforts aimed at winning governorships and state legislatures in advance of the decennial congressional redistricting process, the Democratic Governors Association is launching its own venture, led by veteran party strategist Harold Ickes."
"Ickes, who served as one of the top operatives in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, characterized his role as fundraiser in chief ('I don't do strategy,' he says wryly) for the effort, which is being called Project SuRGe (Stop Republican Gerrymandering). While acknowledging that redistricting is a tougher sell to donors than a presidential race or Senate contest -- 'It's in the weeds,' Ickes says -- he sees his job as 'explaining to people the implications of redistricting at the federal level.'"
Chicago Breaking News Center
How does health reform vote affect Obama's future efforts?
March 22, 2010
"This has been 100 years in the making,'' said Harold Ickes, who was part of the unsuccessful effort to pass a health care overhaul under former President Bill Clinton. "History is replete with false starts on this. It's an enormous achievement to get it done."
National Journal
Taking Instruction From Failure: Three veterans of the Clintons' health care fiasco see ways to avoid repeating the mistakes of 1993-94
August 1, 2009
"As congressional Democrats and President Obama continued scrambling to reach major milestones in the current drive for health care reform, National Journal asked three veterans of President Clinton's failed attempt to overhaul the nation's health system how today's strategists can avoid ending up in a ditch. The July 27 roundtable featured the Clinton White House's deputy chief of staff, Harold Ickes; legislative director, Pat Griffin; and pollster, Stan Greenberg.
'They're going to get something through, and they're going to call it 'health care reform.' " -- Harold Ickes
The New York Times
Democratic Groups Turn to Foot Soldiers
September 21, 2008
"This year, Democrats, including the Obama campaign, are relying on similar information provided by Catalist, a company founded by the Democratic operative Harold M. Ickes that has information on 230 million Americans."
Bloomberg
Democrats Take Republican Database Model to Target Swing Voters
September 18, 2008
"Ickes, a Democratic media consultant and former Clinton adviser, has spent four years and $15 million building Catalist, a database that scores 200 million Americans according to their likelihood to vote for party candidates."
The Huffington Post
Obama's Debt to Harold Ickes
June 3, 2008
"Barack Obama stands on the brink of capturing the presidential nomination in large part because of Democratic Party reforms initiated by the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s -- movements in which Hillary Clinton's top strategist, Harold Ickes, was a key player."
Long Island Business News
Two Minutes with Harold Ickes
May 16, 2008
"Harold Ickes is the assistant to the campaign manager of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and a partner and co-chair of the labor law and government representation departments of Garden City-based Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein. We talked to Ickes about Clinton’s run for the White House."
Time
Clinton's Superdelegate Hunter
May 1, 2008
"Though he has played many roles since his first campaign
in 1968, [Harold] Ickes is known best as a closer, the master of the bitter end who can wring important victories from defeat"
Los Angeles Times
A Not-So-Secret Weapon
March 31, 2008
"Ickes comes by his temperament and his passion for politics naturally. He is the son and namesake of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famously irascible Interior secretary. And he has played the role of party maverick for decades."
Charlie Rose
A Conversation with Harold Ickes
March 3, 2008
A conversation with Harold Ickes, a political strategist working on Hillary Clinton's campaign in the 2008 presidential election.
The New York Times
Longtime Clinton Aide Returns to the Fray
February 28, 2008
"Harold
M. Ickes may be Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s last hope
for
winning the Democratic presidential nomination."
The Politico
April 18, 2007
“...Ickes, 67, is a legendary figure in Democratic politics, a pedigreed political street fighter known for both his loyalty and his abiding grudges.”
The New York Times
Democrats Form New Group for Fund-Raising and Ads
September 12, 2006
“Mr. Ickes was among the chief organizers of several groups that raised more than $200 million from wealth liberals and labor unions in 2004 to try to defeat President Bush.”
The Washington Post
Democrats’ Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle; With Private Effort on Voter Information, Ickes and Soros Challenge Dean and DNC
March 8, 2006
“A group of well-connected Democrats led by former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans to compile huge amounts of data on Americans to identify Democratic voters and blunt what has been a clear Republican lead in using technology for political advantage.
The effort by Harold Ickes, a deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White House and an adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), is prompting intense behind-the-scenes debate in Democratic circles.”
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The Politico
Big Business Faces Big Trouble in '09
July 15, 2008
"There’s no time like the present for business to start preparing for that and thinking about where their own vulnerabilities might be and what their priorities will be,” said Jeffrey Peck, a lobbyist with Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart.
“If people put their heads in the sand and pretend change is not in the air, they will probably be very unhappy with the result,” he said. “If they don’t, and realize it is manageable and doesn’t have to be as bad as they think, they can be in good shape next year."
The Politico
Lombard Joins Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart
May 15, 2008
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Tanya Lombard former director of government affairs for Altria Corporate Services, has been hired by the lobbying firm Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart to bolster its relationships with Democrats.
Knowledge @ Wharton
Will Changes in Taxation Affect the Competitiveness of U.S. Private Equity?
May 6, 2008
"Jeff Peck, chairman of Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart, a Washington lobbying firm, pointed out that, for now, the debate over carried interest is probably moot. After threatening higher taxes last year, Congress chose not to act, giving the industry a reprieve. Legislators probably won't move forward with a carried-interest measure this year because of the election, he said. The earliest that they would revisit the issue would be 2009. By then, "you're going to see a new president and probably larger Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress," he predicted."
The Hill
Best in the business: Hired Guns
April 24, 2008
"The Hill’s annual list of top lobbyists reflects the greater importance Democratic lobbyists play, while not forgetting the Republicans in town who maintain a major role in crafting legislation, particularly in the Senate, where voting margins are so close. Today’s list names the best “hired guns” and corporate lobbyists.
Jeffrey Peck, Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart. Peck helped to shield the private equity industry from a tax hike pushed by the Democratic-controlled Congress last year."
National Journal
Speed Bumps on the Exit Ramp
March 21, 2008
"Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart hired the two Klobuchar aides [Sean Richardson and Sheila Murphy] after they were recruited by firm member Jonathon Jones, former chief of staff to Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del."
Deseret Morning News
Credit-Card Fight: Measure Would Allow Businesses to Negotiate Fees, but Consumers May Not See the Savings
March 12, 2008
"Peter Madigan, the coalition's executive director, said claims that the bill would benefit consumers are "hogwash," because nothing in the legislation says the merchants would have to pass along their savings on lower fees to consumers. The bill's aim is to control prices for businesses, he said."
Roll Call
A Tale of Two Kennedys
March 3, 2008
"The younger Kennedy, says his former chief of staff, Sean Richardson, believes in connecting “policy with people” by holding numerous field hearings on mental health coverage issues."
The Politico
50 Top Politicos to Watch
February 13, 2008
Alix Burns
POSITION: President, Bay Bridge Strategies
REASON TO WATCH: Burns
Sean R. Richardson
POSITION: Lobbyist, Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart
Richardson previously worked as chief of staff to both Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). He also ran Kennedy’s 2006 reelection campaign. At Johnson, Richardson focuses on major legislative issues, including appropriations, health care, labor and technology.
CQ Today
Bioenergy Investors Flexing Political Clout
November 19, 2007
"[Alix] Burns spent six years with TechNet and was a finance director of the 2000 presidential campaign of former Vice President Al Gore. Last fall, she started a lobbying firm with one main client, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in new ethanol companies, fuel cells, solar and wind power."
The Politico
Toy Manufacturers Embrace the Opposition – for Now
September 20, 2007
“’There is the confluence of a public policy issue that people really do care about. Parents and grandparents are reading about this with a great deal of interest,’ said David Johnson a veteran Democratic lobbyist whose firm has recently been hired by Mattel.
Handling the account with him is Janet Mullins Grissom, a former White House aide to President George H.W. Bush. Grissom was a senior lobbyist at Ford Motor Co. during the Explorer SUV rollover controversy.”
Roll Call
Playing the Field
July 18, 2007
“Lobbyist Jeff Peck couldn’t choose between presidential hopeful Sens. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), his one-time boss, and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), a longtime contact. ...So he’s given [to] each Senator’s campaign...”
Roll Call
‘Mod Squad’ Aids Centrist Democrats
July 18, 2007
“A well-connected group of ex-Senate staffers is pulling together a self described ‘Mod Squad’ to put some financial firepower behind the election and re-election of moderate Senate Democrats.”
Among those involved in the effort: [is] Jonathon Jones, former chief of staff to Carper and now with Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart. Jones also was involved in the founding of Third Way.”
The Providence Journal
At 40, Still Climbing the Hill
July 15, 2007
“’It is not an easy thing growing up in that family, although I know most people don’t believe that,’ says Sean Richardson [of Congressman Patrick Kennedy], a former Patrick Kennedy aide and a friend. ‘The expectations are high and they don’t come from other family members, they come from being a Kennedy.’”
Letter from ‘The Hill’ Publisher and Vice President
2007 Top Lobbyists
July 9, 2007
Jeffrey Peck recognized as one of The Hill’s 2007 Top Lobbyists.
Washingtonian
June 2007
David Johnson named one of Washington’s 50 top lobbyists.
“One of the savviest Democratic lobbyists in Washington, Johnson is a former adviser to Maine Democrats Edmund Muskie and George Mitchell. With the Democrats in the wilderness the past decade, Johnson had the wiles to join forces with the Republican lobby shop Boland & Madigan.
Michael Boland, a former aide to then-majority leader Trent Lott, and Peter Madigan, a trade official in the first Bush administration, carried the company during the GOP years; now Johnson promises to do the heavy lifting while the Democrats rule. He has beefed up ties to Senate Democrats by hiring Jeff Peck, a former top aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
The Hill
The new sheriffs in town: Top Hired Guns
April 25, 2007
“Wall Street turns to Peck for representation in the Democratic-controlled Congress.”
National Journal
Leading Democratic Lobbyists
March 31, 2007
The National Journal acknowledged Jeffrey Peck as a leading Democratic lobbyist.
Globalist Perspective: Global Politics
Back to the Future: Is the 2008 Election a 1968 Redux
March 30, 2007
Written by: William Danvers
“With the war in Iraq a dominant political issue in the United States, there are inevitable parallels to be found with the country’s political climate during the Vietnam War. As Williams Danvers explains, the presidential race in 2008 will resemble the 1968 election between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey – when both parties jockeyed to proved a new course for an unpopular war.”
The Politico
K Street Gets a Hill Democrat With a Business Bent
March 28, 2007
“For years, J. Jonathon Jones operated behind the scenes in the Senate as the business community’s go-to Democrat. Now, he’s arguing the case for business in a Senate controlled by Democrats, including his old boss, Tom Carper (Del.). The key to Jones’s success on the outside is his close relationship with Carper and his knowledge of which Democrats are inclined to support business interests.”
Washington Monthly
Let’s Do Lunch: Twenty-one new power players you wish you’d been nicer to.
March 2007
“The Go-Between, Jonathon Jones, Hill-staffer-turned-lobbyist... In recent years [Jonathon] has emerged as a crucial bridge builder between lobbyists and Senate Democrats.”
United Press International
Outside View: Facing Iraq Realities-2
February 22, 2007
Written By: William Danvers
“William Danvers has working on international issues for nearly a quarter of a century, on Capitol Hill in the House and Senate, at the State Department, at the White House National Security Council, at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. For the past five years, he has served in the private sector as a consultant.”
United Press International
Outside View: Facing Iraq Realities-1
February 16, 2007
Written By: William Danvers
United Press International
Outside View: Looking Ahead in Iraq-2
January 17, 2007
Written By: William Danvers
United Press International
Outside View: Looking Ahead in Iraq-1
January 12, 2007
Written By: William Danvers
United Press International
Outside View: Congress Needs Nat Sec Teeth
December 26, 2006
Written By: William Danvers
National Journal
Hill People
December 16, 2006
“As co-founder of the Monday group, a regular meeting of Democratic staffers and lobbyists, [Jonathon Jones] has been a liaison to K Street for Democrats.”
The Hill
Building Coalitions at a Bipartisan Boutique
June 6, 2006
“’[Janet Mullins Grissom’s] extremely smart, able, and is always the adult in the room,’ Salter [chief of staff to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)] said. ‘Up on the Hill, there’s not always an easy supply of that.’”
United Press International
Outside View: Between Oz, Mess-o-potamia
June 24, 2005
Written By: William Danvers
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Before Traveling to Uganda: A Lesson or Two on Lobbying
October 10, 2004
“That realpolitik wisdom is from Peter Madigan, a highly-regarded lobbyist. He worked for James A. Baker 3d in the administrations of Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and on the transition team of this President Bush."
The Hill
The Tuesday Profile: ‘The guy who knows how to get you to 60’
March 30, 2004
“It may seem odd that Republican lobbyists working on issues widely supported by Republicans, in a Congress controlled by Republicans, with a Republican in the White House, would call on a Democrat for help.
But that is sometimes the case these days, and the Democrat they call is Jeff Peck.
Peck has build a reputation as a lobbyist who can round up centrist Democrats in the Senate to support issues that Democratic leadership threatens to filibuster, such as asbestos litigation and class-action reform.”
Influence
Democratic Senate aides reach out to allies on K Street to talk message, strategy
February 4, 2004
“Senate chiefs of staff Paul Bock and Jonathon Jones helped hatch an outreach effort between Democratic Hill staffers and like-minded lobbyists on K Street.”
Corporate Financing Week
Rainmaker Award Winners: Most Effective Beltway Lobby
June 16, 2003
“Jeffrey Peck ... has spent much of the past 12 months explaining, conveying, agitating and cajoling on behalf of the International Employees Stock Options Coalition regarding the pitfalls of requiring companies to report stock options as an expense on their balance sheets. It worked: Peck secured a key victory when lawmakers working on the Sarbanes Oxley Act eliminated an amendment offered by Carl Levin (D-Mich.) that would have required all companies to expense options.”
“Even congressional aides whose bosses support expensing grudgingly admit that Peck has proven to be a formidable foe.”
Treasury & Risk Management
100 Most Influential People in Finance
June 6, 2003
Jeffrey Peck identified by Treasury & Risk Management as one of nine “corporate mouthpieces – perfecting the art of persuasion from a corporate perspective.”
National Journal
Lobbying: Griffin, Johnson: Back to the Future
March 1, 2003
“...even as mergers and acquisitions became the rage on K Street in the 1990s, Griffin, Johnson, invariably chose independence over lucrative corporate buyouts.”
National Journal
(Front Cover) Damage Control: The inside story of how two manufacturers – one with a big Washington presence and the other without one – responded in very different ways to last year’s firestorm over.
(Inside Feature) Blowout: Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford were under fire last year over auto safety. One had a team in place. The other did not. It was a case study in how corporations handle a Washington crisis.
April 28, 2001
“The situation at Ford was much different. The automaker benefited from a large Washington government affairs staff, headed by Janet Mullins Grissom, a former State Department aide in the George H.W. Bush Administration. An experienced Washington player, Grissom saw what was coming.”
Legal Times
Senate Know-How Makes Griffin, Johnson Firm to Watch
May 8, 1989
“The fact that American Petroleum Institute (API) chose to supplement its extensive in-house and outside lobbying team with Griffin, Johnson & Associates is the latest sign that former Senate staffers Patrick Griffin, 39, and David Johnson, 41, have succeeded in building a blue-chip lobbying practice since launching the firm 2 ½ years ago.”
“’Those two young men are the heavy hitters of the next generation. They’re in the process of being recognized,’ says veteran lobbyist John Camp, name partner of D.C.’s Camp, Barsh, Bates & Tate.
