Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

A pivotal moment in the K Street Project’s systematic transformation of Washington’s lobbying ecosystem, where Republican leadership demonstrated its power to coerce and control industry associations by punishing the Electronic Industries Alliance for hiring a Democratic congressman, thereby establishing a partisan hiring mandate for lobbyists.

Key Actors

Tom DeLay Newt Gingrich Dave McCurdy Bill Paxon Electronic Industries Alliance Jack Abramoff Grover Norquist

Tags

regulatory-capture corporate-coercion political-blacklisting lobbying-control partisan-infrastructure

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