"Drug czar" McCaffrey cashes in as homeland-security lobbyist
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Mon Dec 9 07:52:13 PST 2002
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/hoh/
Seeing Green. The latest person to take the well-traveled path from Capitol
Hill to greater riches on K Street is Dan Turton, floor assistant for
outgoing House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D- Mo.).
Turton has singed up with Timmons & Co., which has also snapped up Alan
Hoffman, chief of staff to Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.).
At a grave time for the airline industry, meanwhile, American Airlines has
tapped Daniel Elwell to serve as managing director of international and
governmental affairs. Taking a more unconventional path to the lobbying
industry, Elwell is a veteran company pilot. That led to the inevitable
quip in a company press release that he is "equally at ease navigating a
bill through Congress as he is a 767 across the country."
Fleishman-Hillard, meanwhile, has signed up the former drug czar, retired
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, to launch a new homeland security practice at the
public relations behemoth. Three members of the firm's international
advisory board - former Defense Secretary William Cohen, ex-Speaker Newt
Gingrich (R-Ga.) and former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis
Sullivan - will provide "strategic counsel"to the new practice.
And Thomas Wheeler, president and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications &
Internet Association, has been elected president of the board of directors
of the Foundation for the National Archives.
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