Topic: Stephen Payne

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Former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.) has joined APCO Worldwide as senior vice president and senior counselor. Roemer previously served as U.S...

US circuses circle wagons against elephants law

US circuses are circling the wagons against a proposed law in Congress that would ban using elephants under the big top, a tradition that animal rights activists say causes terrible suffering.The bill, introduced this month in the House of Representatives by ...

Stephen Payne

Stephen Payne is a high-profile lobbyist with close ties to the Bush Administration . a hotshot lobbyist who can get you into White House (July 13, 2008) On July 13 , 2008 , The Sunday Times reported that Payne, a lobbyist and member of the ...
Stephen Payne paid $130,000 to McCain adviser for lobbying largely on energy issuesSen. John McCain's campaign on Tuesday distanced its foreign policy adviser from a longtime Republican fundraiser who paid the adviser $130,000 when he was a lobbyist.The ...
Sen. John McCain's campaign has admitted that his top foreign policy adviser has lobbied for not two but three different firms run by cash-for-access deal-maker Stephen Payne. But the McCain camp insists that Randy Scheunemann did not lobby McCain himself on ...
We've gotten a hold of a new document from Worldwide Strategic Energy, one of the numerous firms run by Stephen Payne. We've been writing a lot about Payne since he was caught on video offering to arrange meetings with high-level ...
More evidence of ties between John McCain's top foreign policy adviser and Stephen Payne, the guy caught on video offering to arrange meetings with top White House officials in exchange for big donations to the future George W. Bush Presidential Library ...

DOJ Says Payne Never Got Legal Opinion From FARA Office

Yesterday we told you how Stephen Payne -- the guy caught on video by the Times of London apparently selling access to the White House -- seemed strangely absent from the Justice Department's database for registering foreign agents. His company, Worldwide Strategic Partners ...
Before last week, we'd never heard of Worldwide Strategic Partners and Stephen Payne, the (former) Homeland Security adviser who was caught on video soliciting big donations for the future George W. Bush Presidential Library fund while offering to arrange access to ...

Payne Forced To Quit Homeland Security Advisory Panel

//tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/prez_consultant_go_back.php">Stephen Payne has left his post as a Department of Homeland Security adviser. The Department told him told him he could no longer serve on its top advisory committee. Publicly, the department didn't say ...