Fistful Of Dollars
The wife of Ed Rogers, chairman of the lobbying firm BGR Holding and a John McCain donor, opens the doors of the couple's McLean home for the pilot of the new show NBC show Power House, which explores the abodes of Washington's most influential players. National Journal's crafty Bara Vaida, who covers lobbying for the mag, has the skinny on the first episode and reveals some of the details of the couple's 18K-square-foot home in this week's NJ:
Yes, some Washington lobbyists have been known for their excesses over the years, but did you know that one even wraps her gifts in money? Lobbyist Edwina Rogers, who is married to Ed Rogers, chairman of lobbying firm BGR Holding, reveals her penchant for using sheets of dollar bills purchased from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as wrapping paper on a television pilot produced for NBC's Washington station. National Journal obtained a copy of the show Power House, which is expected to air this fall.
Among other details Rogers reveals in the tour of her 18,000-square-foot home (named Surry Hill) in McLean, Va.: keepsakes displayed in glass cases in a special museum room; a photograph of her son, Haley, with former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., one of his 10 godfathers; and two stools that were gifts from the king of Cameroon.
"When we met with our builder and architect, we said, 'Well, we are from Alabama and we are rednecks, so we are insecure and it needs to come through in our house, so it needs to be big,' " Rogers tells host Mario Correa (a former lobbyist). The pilot also showcases the Dupont Circle home of Scott Segal, partner at the firm Bracewell & Giuliani.
View a snippet of the show here.
(NJ's BARA VAIDA)
Just to be clear. That post is about lobbyists. Connected to McCain. Using money. To wrap gifts.
*shudder*
Just an unhealthy obsession with money. Sad.
There is always a lobbyist who gives the rest of us (yes, I'm a lobbyist, or in the words of John McCain, a "bird of prey") a bad name. Thanks a lot, Ed and Edwina. Now, please go away.