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Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford (CLGC) is a political lobbying firm in the United States. [1]
History
Steve Clark formed the group as Clark & Associates[2] in 1999.[3]
Gary Lytle joined in 2007 after working for the telecommunications industry.[2] Sam Geduldig joined after working several years for US congressman John Boehner as well as congressman Roy Blunt.[4]
The company was one of the top lobbying firms involved in the financial reform debates around 2009-2010[4], which involved laws like the Dodd-Frank act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[5]
The firm got an earnings boost after the Republican Party won the US House of Representatives elections of 2010.[6]
In 2011 John Cranford joined the firm to help get business from the energy and technology industries[6]. He, like Lytle, worked several years for Speaker Boehner. [1]
In a firm memorandum leaked in November 2011, the firm proposed to the American Bankers Association (ABA) a public relations response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, including doing "opposition research" on the protesters, generating "negative narratives" about them and putting negative stories about them in the media.[7] The memo cautions the ABA against ignoring OWS as merely "a ragtag group of protesters" because OWS protesters have demonstrated that they are "capable of working the media, coordinating third party support and engaging office holders to do their bidding," adding that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for banking interests, and suggesting that if OWS becomes a campaign issue, "it has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bull's-eye."[8]
Notable clients
- Banks & finance companies like Goldman Sachs & Mastercard[5]
- Finance trade groups like the American Bankers Association & Financial Services Roundtable[5][2]
- Nelnet student loans[9]
- Oil and Gas companies[1]
- The Koch companies[1]
Proposed ABA attack on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
A firm == References ==
- ^ a b c d Clark, Lytle & Geduldig Changes Name, 03 Oct 2011, National Journal. retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ a b c Suite Talk: Health care boost, by Aoife McCarthy, 9/17/07, politico.com. retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ "Est. 1999": see their official CLGCDC website, accessed 2011 Nov 20. Retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ a b A Rundown of the Big Financial Services Lobbyists By DEALBOOK, June 8, 2010, New York Times. retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ a b c The Billion-Dollar Bank Heist, Gary Rivlin, 2011 7 10, The Daily Beast (Newsweek/DailyBeast) retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ a b O'Dwyers Inside News of Marketing Relations & Public Communications, O'Dwyer's Blog, Thursday, September 1. 2011. retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ Exclusive: Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street, Sat Nov 19, 2011, by Jonathan Larsen and Ken Olshansky, MSNBC, msn.com, retrieved 2011 11 20
- ^ Business Insider, 21 Nov. 2011, "Bank Lobbyists Outline Attack On Occupy Wall Street To 'Undermine' Protests," http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-lobbyists-outline-attack-on-occupy-wall-street-2011-11
- ^ Students, Lenders Clash Over Loan Subsidies, by Aoife McCarthy, 3/20/07, politico.com. retrieved 2011 11 20
External Links
- Opensecrets.org page, with breakdowns of customers
- Influence Explorer, shows campaign contributions
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