Monday, December 5, 2011

Ann Wagner's Lobbyist Donors


Sunday I blogged about the Cartelization of American Business. In that post I explored the role of lobbyists in creating industry cartels that subvert free market economics.

The screen shot above shows that Enterprise Rent-a-Car where Ray Wagner is employed as Government and Public Affairs Vice-President has hired several left-leaning lobbying firms. Since Ray Wagner directs Enterprise's lobbying efforts, the lobbying firms listed above are ones that he has chosen to represent Enterprise before local, state, and federal officials.

What's interesting is that employees of these lobbying firms have donated to the campaign of Ray Wagner's wife, Ann Wagner. Ann Wagner is a Republican candidate for the US House in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District. Hobbits Source Blog has details about Ann Wagner's donations from the Podesta Group and Ogilvy Government Relations.

If Ann Wagner is a conservative, why is she drawing donations from establishment leftists? If she's going to argue as she has about her Enterprise donors, that her relationships with lobbyist donors have been built over decades, then voters in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District need to consider that when they enter the voting booth.

2 comments:

Zotta's Perspective said...

Ed Martin is the true conservative in the US Congressional race for the newly formed 2nd District in Missouri. Ed Martin was endorsed by the St. Louis Tea Party in the 2010 election, however this time there are factions in the Tea Party who no longer support Ed Martin, but instead are supporting Ann Wagner. Whether Ann is a Conservative or not, is not the point; my question is, “Where is the loyalty?” Ed did the leg work when he ran against Russ Carnahan with a Conservative message for the Third Congressional District of Missouri in the 2010 election when no establishment Republican wanted to do so, because the Third Congressional District of Missouri favored the Democrats. In the end he came up a little short of votes to win the election. Ed is now running in the newly formed 2nd, which favors the Republicans and his positions have not changed. So why would someone who supported Ed in the previous campaign no longer want to support him now? What are their reasons? This country is in dire straights and there is much work to be done to get America back on track. It starts with electing common sense conservatives like Ed Martin to be the people’s representatives.

Zotta's Perspective said...

Ed Martin is the true conservative in the US Congressional race for the newly formed 2nd District in Missouri and he deserves to be supported. The Democrat/Statist’s policies and rhetoric are detrimental to this country. Being concerned with the direction this country is headed Ed Martin wanted to do something about it. Therefore, Ed Martin ran against Russ Carnahan with a Conservative message for the Third Congressional District of Missouri in the 2010 election when no establishment Republican wanted to do so. The Third Congressional District of Missouri in 2010 favored the Democrats. He came up a little short of votes to win on election night.
Why should a candidate run for office? Should they run only if they are in a secure district, hoping for an easy victory or should they run because the opposing party's policies and rhetoric are detrimental to this country? The establishment GOP did not run against the Incumbent Russ Carnahan. Why? Why did they not challenge Russ Carnahan or Dick Gephardt in the past? Was it because they never wanted to challenge the Democrats and the Status quo? Was it because it would have been a tough election? Was it because that was Dick Gephardt's District, and the Democrat/Statists owned and were entitled to that fiefdom.
Now, the newly formed 2nd District favors a Republican Candidate and Ann Wagner enters the race. Why didn’t Ann Wagner challenge Russ Carnahan or Dick Gephardt in prior elections? Ed Martin is a Conservative and did the leg work in the previous election and his positions have not changed, therefore he deserves to be supported. There is much work to be done to get America back on track and it starts with electing common sense conservatives like Ed Martin to be the people’s representatives.