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Littleredcorvette ago

Guess who was hired for a lobbyist job at SNAPCHAT: Heather Podesta + Partners. January 2014

The startup has enlisted lobbyist firm Heather Podesta + Partners to help with communications. Snapchat will work with the firm toward "educating policymakers regarding the application's operation and practice," according to its lobbying disclosure. Snapchat's hiring of lobbyists comes as privacy experts called for an investigation from the Federal Trade Commission, which could levy fines. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/06/report-snapchat-hires-lobbyists-in-wake-of-data-breach/4345043/ http://archive.is/iwwG6

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Heather Podesta + Partners also hired by POKEMON GO! https://www.legistorm.com/pro_news/view/id/1762.html http://archive.is/OZvQe Pokemon Go developer hires Heather Podesta Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 13, 2016 As the company faces controversy over Pokemon Go security updates, Niantic, the software-development company behind the popular app, has hired Heather Podesta + Partners to lobby on its behalf. According to a lobbying disclosure, Niantic is lobbying on "issues related to privacy, data security, copyright and intellectual property." The company has generated controversy over a Pokemon Go security issue involving access to its in-game maps. As of June, Heather Podesta + Partners firm founder Heather Podesta had reportedly raised nearly $350,000 for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She is the ex-wife of lobbyist Tony Podesta and ex-sister-in-law of John Podesta, chair of Clinton's campaign.

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Moyers & Company: How Money Rules Washington

http://crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/moyers-company-how-money-rules-washing http://archive.is/WRPAH Look at this headline: “After Aa Powerful Lobbyist Intervenes, EPA Reverses Stance on Polluting Texas County's Water.” That's a story from the news organizations ProPublica reporting that a big energy company wants permission from Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, for a large-scale mining project in Texas that would pollute a pristine supply of drinking water. So the EPA says no, can't have it. The big company hires Heather Podesta who's a big time lobbyist, a big time fundraiser for Democrats who was married at the time to another big Washington Democratic fixer named Tony Podesta, who used to be president of the liberal organization People for the American Way. Through their connections these two have become the king and queen of influence peddling. Lo and behold, some months after the industry hires Heather Podesta, EPA reverses itself and the company gets an exemption and is allowed to pollute the aquifer. To hell with the public health. This is routine, isn't it? DANIELLE BRIAN: And it's exactly what you're talking about with the pay to play. So it's, in this case you have companies that have the money and the resources to hire the lobbyists or the lawyers who will go to battle for their clients endlessly. I mean, those of us who are working on the other side in the public interest realize that when we have our wins which we get industry is going to be there and they're going to keep going and fighting because they have those endless resources to keep battling back. TL;DR.

Lobbying Report of Heather Podesta & Partners: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000034396 http://archive.is/3PX76 Be sure to look through all the tabs: summary, lobbyists, issues, agencies, bills, etc. for more information like this.
Bill Number/Congress/Client/Bill Title/No. of Reports* H.R.1687/114/American Beverage Assn / Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax Act of 2015 /9/ S.1966 /114 /American Beverage Assn / Hunger Free Summer for Kids Act of 2015 /9/ H.R.1619 /114 /Home Depot /Paycheck Fairness Act /9

cantsleepawink ago

That's very interesting. This youtuber just did a video about snapchat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnJTadeEoGw