[governance] US Business hires of former government employees as lobbyists

[Roland Perry]

In message <506557A0.3030905 at gmail.com>, at 10:54:08 on Fri, 28 Sep 
2012, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> writes
>MSG as cover for corporate domination?
>
>Snip:
>
>For example, 51 percent
>of the US Chamber, 65 perecent of PhRMA, 79 percent of Merck and Microsoft,
>90 percent of Goldman Sachs and 94 percent of Vivendi lobbyists are former
>government employees.

Many clients seem to believe that, as a shortcut, the best way to hire a 
lobbyist to influence government is to find someone who used to work for 
government, especially in the department you want to lobby.

In the UK we have a saying: "gamekeeper turned poacher", although the 
reverse: "poacher turned gamekeeper" is more familiar.

The opposite view is that lobbyists should come from the industry they 
represent, because they are more likely to have experience of the whole 
eco-system, rather than skewed towards the government department they 
used to work for.
-- 
Roland Perry

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