Revolving Door: Harry Reid's $5 million man; and a Ted Stevens staffer cashes out

By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
07/09/09 5:13 PM EDT

Two brief items from the revolving door between business and policy-making:

1) Legistorm--an excellent source for data on the salaries, personal finances, and travel of congressmen and staffers--has an interesting blog post up now on David B. Krone, a former vice president at Comcast and the National Cable Television Association. Krone earned $5 million last year, including $3 million in salary from Comcast, and then he left that gig to be a senior advisor to Harry Reid, the Senate's majority leader.

2) Margaret Sidney Ashworth, who was a top Senate Appropriations Committee staffer, has cashed out, becoming a defense lobbyist. This week, she registered the Ashworth Group and her first three clients: Raytheon, Boeing, and General Dynamics.

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Rick Caird

Jul 10, 2009

These are examples of why the left's call for more regulation is futile. The regulators always become part of the establishment because of the movement between industry and government. Rick

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Jul 11, 2009

i hear that the left makes a lot of calls, but never follows up. what happened to the bonus recall? what happened to transparency? what happened to the plan to audit the fed?

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Revolving Door: Harry Reid's $5 million man; and a Ted Stevens staffer cashes out

By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
07/09/09 5:13 PM EDT