Egypt turns to K Street after U.S. aid cut
By Kevin Bogardus - 10/12/13 03:42 AM EDT
The Egyptian government has returned to K Street.
The Glover Park Group
has been hired by Egypt to “provide public
diplomacy, strategic communications counsel and government relations
services" for the country's government, according to documents obtained by
The Hill. The lobby and communications firm filed those records with the
Justice Department on Friday.
The move by Egypt
to sign up one of Washington’s
most prominent influence shops ends its K Street exile. Egypt last had
lobbyists in its employ more than a year ago when it parted ways with the PLM
Group — made up of Podesta Group, the Livingston Group and the Moffett Group —
in January 2012.
Since protesters first packed Cairo’s Tahrir
Square more than two years ago, Egypt has been
in political turmoil. The interim government’s recent violent crackdown on its
opponents led the United States
this week to suspend some of its foreign aid to Egypt — including proposed sales of
F-16 fighter jets, M1 Abrams tanks and Apache attack helicopters as well as
about $260 million in cash assistance.
“As a result of the review directed by
President Obama, we have decided to maintain our relationship with the Egyptian
government, while recalibrating our assistance to Egypt to best advance our
interests,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement
Wednesday.
Glover Park
plans to help Egypt back
into the United States’
good graces. The firm’s work “will include communications associated with the
Government’s implementation of its Road Map to build the institutions of an
inclusive democratic state through parliamentary and presidential elections,”
according to Justice records.
Further, Glover
Park will support the Egyptian
government’s communications “with U.S.
government officials, business community, non-governmental audiences and the
media” as well as help with “fostering and facilitating exchanges between the U.S. and Egypt.”
The records are dated this Friday and are
signed by Joel Johnson, Glover
Park’s managing director.
Johnson is a former senior aide to President Bill Clinton and ex-Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).
The terms of the firm’s contract with Egypt have not been determined yet but Glover Park
plans to file that agreement on a later date.
Glover Park’s
own research shows that Egypt’s
image could use some polishing in the United States. In July, the firm
issued an analysis of U.S.
polls on foreign policy — including one showing Egypt’s
favorability in America
had dropped 18 points since 2010.
Glover Park is one of K Street’s more experienced shops in
representing foreign governments and politicians. Justice records show that the
firm has advocated in the past for the governments of Colombia, Georgia
and South Korea
among others.
The firm also lobbies for some of America’s
biggest companies, such as Apple, Coca-Cola and
Lockheed Martin. Glover
Park has made roughly
$3.6 million in lobbying fees so far this year, according to the Center for
Responsive Politics.
Glover Park Group
Howard
Wolfson was a partner at the Glover Park Group,
and is married to Terri McCullough.
Note: Terri
McCullough is married to Howard Wolfson,
and Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff.
Nancy Pelosi’s
chief of staff is Terri McCullough,
the minority leader for the U.S. House of
Representatives, her deputy chief of staff was Cecile
Richards, and invited to George Soros 2013
wedding reception.
Pelosi Statement on Latest
Developments in Egypt
July 3, 2013
Cecile Richards
was Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff,
and is the president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
Elizabeth
Engel is a lobbyist for the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and a managing director for the Glover Park Group.
Glover
Park Group is the lobby firm for the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and Nancy Pelosi
was invited to his 2013 wedding reception.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Melanie
Nathanson was a senior health policy analyst for the Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities, and a lobbyist for the Glover Park
Group.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for the Glover Park Group.
James F.
Collins was a senior advisor at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Valerie
B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members
Directory
Please note: This link for the members of
the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Donald F.
McHenry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and a director at the Coca-Cola
Company.
Richard
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and a director at the Coca-Cola Company.
Glover
Park Group is the lobby firm for the Coca-Cola Company.
Curt
Ferguson is a division president for the Coca-Cola
Company, and a governor for the American Chamber of
Commerce in Egypt.
Coca-Cola
Company is an investor in U.S. investors
in Egypt.
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