White House Endorsement Watch

K Street Endorsements

This was a running tabulation of lobbyists who made their endorsements public in the 2008 White House contest. Only those candidates who received lobbyist endorsements are listed.

Democrats

Hillary Rodham Clinton | Barack Obama

Republicans

John McCain

Hillary Rodham Clinton (67): Endorsements Prior to June 6
Cory Alexander (Fannie Mae) Michael Anderson (AndersonTuell) Matthew Anthes (Van Scoyoc Associates) Don Auerbach (Investment Company Institute) Lyndon Boozer (AT&T) Susan Brophy (Glover Park Group) Bill Broydrick (Broydrick & Associates) Gerry Cassidy (Cassidy & Associates) Jeff Connaughton (Quinn Gillespie & Associates) Steve Elmendorf (Elmendorf Strategies) Janice Enright (Ickes & Enright Group) Vic Fazio (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld) Holly Fechner (Covington & Burling) Jeff Forbes (Cauthen Forbes & Williams) Ronna Freiberg (Legislative Strategies) Adam Gluck (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) Richard Goodstein (Goodstein and Associates) J. Eric Gould (Tew Cardenas) Fred Graefe (Law offices of Frederick H. Graefe) Charles Hansen (Hansen Government Relations) Tom Hebert (Ogilvy Government Relations) Vicki Hicks (Foley & Lardner) Regina Hopper (USTelecom) Harold Ickes (Ickes & Enright Group) Peter Jacoby (AT&T) Joel Johnson (Glover Park Group) John Jonas (Patton Boggs) David Jones (Capitol Counsel) Tim Keating (Honeywell International) Alison Kutler (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) Tom Lehner (Business Roundtable) Reta Jo Lewis (Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge) Neil MacBride (Business Software Alliance) Joel Malina (Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates) David Marchick (Carlyle Group) Tama Mattocks (Strategic Health Care) Chris McCannell (Quinn Gillespie & Associates) Tom McDonald (Baker Hostetler) Mike McNamara (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) Gwen Mellor (Hogan & Hartson) John Merrigan (DLA Piper) Mike Merola (Winning Strategies) Linda Morgan (Covington & Burling) Evan Morris (Roche Pharmaceuticals) Kyle Mulroy (Washington Strategic Consulting) Ben Noble (Troutman Sanders Public Affairs Group) Sean O'Shea (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld) Steve Palmer (Van Scoyoc Associates) Peter Pappas (Pappas Telecasting Cos.) Scott Pastrick (BKSH) Geoffrey Peterson (U.S. Strategies Corp.) Heather Podesta (Heather Podesta & Partners) Steve Ricchetti (Ricchetti Inc.) Alan Roth (Lent Scrivner & Roth) Marty Russo** (Cassidy & Associates) Jimmy Ryan (Citigroup) Mark Siegel (Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell) Hannah Simone (Nuclear Energy Institute) Sandi Stuart (Clark & Weinstock) Richard Sullivan (Capitol Counsel) Dan Tate Jr. (Capitol Solutions) David Thomas (Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti) Paul Thornell (Citigroup) Loretta Tuell (AndersonTuell) Blair Watters (The Madison Group) Anne Wexler (Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates) Marcia Wiss (Hogan & Hartson)
Barack Obama (20): Endorsements Prior to June 6
Donald Alexander (Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld) Theodore Bornstein (Foley & Lardner) John Buscher (Holland & Knight) Kevin Chavous (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) Tom Daschle (Alston & Bird) Stan Fendley (Corning) Elizabeth Fox (Jolly/Rissler) Francis Grab (Washington Council Ernst & Young) Tim Hannegan (Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates) Tom Jensen (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) Broderick Johnson (Bryan Cave Strategies) Mark Keam (Verizon) Bob Maloney (Maloney Government Relations) Marcus Mason (The Madison Group) Ronald Platt (Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney) Andy Rosenberg (Ogilvy Government Relations) Bobby Sepucha (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) Jarvis Stewart (Stewart Partners) Tom Walls (McGuireWoods) Michael Williams (Credit Suisse)

John McCain (31): Endorsements Prior to March 4
Wayne Berman (Ogilvy Government Relations) Cindi Berry (Powell Goldstein) Charlie Black (BKSH) Richard Bond (Bond & Co.) Jim Burnley (Venable) Rob Chamberlin (McBee Strategic Consulting) Christopher Coursen (The Status Group) Bryan Cunningham (BGR Holding) Rod DeArment (Covington & Burling) Ben Dupuy (The Cypress Group) Missy Edwards (The Washington Group) Elise Finley Pickering (Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti) Robert Fisher (Verizon) Adolfo Franco (Direct Selling Association) Rob Freeman (Sher & Blackwell) David Girard-diCarlo (Blank Rome) John Green (Ogilvy Government Relations) Steve Hart (Williams & Jensen) Mark Holman (Blank Rome) Tim Locke* (Smith-Free Group) Tom Loeffler (The Loeffler Group) Peter Madigan (Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart) Robert Marsh (OB-C Group) Daniel Mattoon (Mattoon & Associates) Walter McCormick Jr. (USTelecom) Ken Nahigian (Nahigian Strategies) Jim Pitts (Navigators) Grant Seiffert (Telecom Industry Association) Laurence Socci (The C.L.A. Group) Rick Valentine* (K&L Gates) Todd Weiss (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal)

* Previously endorsed Fred Thompson
** Previously endorsed Sen. Joseph Biden

Schumer Advocates for Many on Panel

Nov. 16, 12 a.m.

As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, “It’s as useless as tits on a bull.” But as that panel’s chairman during the 110th Congress, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized the opportunity to elevate the traditionally low-profile post to the forefront of shaping policy. Read Full Article