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Blunt Hartley Cassidy Deal Draws National Notice

Last year, Fired Up! reported that Gregg Hartley, former Chief of Staff to Rep. Roy Blunt received $50,000 for one months work. His task? To convince Governor Matt Blunt to sign a piece of legislation benefitting the Missouri Association of Realtors.

In a story today in the NY Times, that arrangement is highlighted again:

In Missouri, for example, the legislature unanimously passed a
minimum-services bill that sent lobbyists on both sides scrambling to
sway Gov. Matt Blunt. As they had done in other states, the Justice
Department and the Federal Trade Commission urged Mr. Blunt to veto the
measure.

Ms. Janik had weighed in with a letter to state
associations months earlier, saying the Justice Department was merely
lobbying and could not apply federal antitrust laws to cases in which
states have regulatory authority.

"Realtor associations have
the right to lobby for legislative and regulatory action that they
support - even if the effect of such action would be anticompetitive,"
she wrote in a strongly worded memo.

The Missouri Association
of Realtors hired Gregg L. Hartley, chief operating officer of Cassidy
& Associates, one of the largest lobbying firms in Washington. Mr.
Hartley is a former chief of staff to Representative Roy Blunt, the
governor's father and one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress.
When Representative Tom DeLay was indicted earlier this year, Mr. Blunt took over his duties as majority leader.

The
Missouri association paid Mr. Hartley $50,000 for a single month of
lobbying, according to state records, which listed his only task as
working to enact the bill. Mr. Hartley did not return calls for
comment.

Ultimately, Governor Blunt signed the bill.

It's a real shame that the Governor's lack of integrity brings this sort of unwanted attention to Missouri.

Blunt Force

And what did Baby Blunt get out of it ? As soon as the GOPer whipped media restores its testosterone, we will find the truth. And if Baby Blunt takes after his dad (or takes money from his dad's Pac or friends illegally) sooner or later there is bound to be someone who will come clean and spill the beans....
I no longer trust any BLUNT... all I want is for the BLUNTS to stop the corruption and lying to us..... We are not stupid and cannot be controlled by them sendng their God, made over into their image, after us.... Right is usually right...but in this case.... The RIGHT is dangerously wrong...wrong for our counties, wrong for our state and wrong for our country. The REAL God had better help us cause the republicans won't as long as they are on a roll......and the Democrats seem powerless....