Katie McGinty, running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, has passed through the revolving door a few times. In 1998, she left the Clinton-Gore administration and soon landed at K Street lobbying firm Troutman Sanders. Then in 2003, Gov. Ed Rendell nominated her as Secretary of Environmental Protection.
As the state senate considered McGinty’s nomination, lobbyist Kevin Fitzgerald, her colleague at Troutman Sanders, wrote a letter of recommendation to the relevant committee chairwoman. Fitzgerald argued, that in Clinton’s Council on Environmental Quality, McGinty’s role was largely to “ma[k]e things better for business.”
Her work at CEQ, Fitzgerald wrote, frequently included “pushing to modify and improve the Administration’s proposals. Sometimes she prevailed and made things better for business.”
At the time he wrote the letter, Fitzgerald was a lobbyist for coal giant Southern Company, according to federal disclosure forms.
Fitzgerald, in his letter, also credited McGinty with bringing in a “large number of clients” for the K Street firm.
Below is Fitzgerald’s letter and McGinty’s thank-you note to the energy lobbyist.
Timothy P. Carney, The Washington Examiner’s senior political columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears Tuesday and Thursday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.
3.7.03 Troutman Sanders McGinty Letter
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