Coats Lobbied For PhRMA, Wall Street Banks
Ex-Sen. Dan Coats (R) has spent the past several years advocating on behalf of pharmaceutical companies, major health care firms and big corporations, according to a client roster provided to Hotline OnCall.
Coats, a registered lobbyist at the powerhouse firms King & Spalding and Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson & Hand, counts PhRMA and the Healthcare Leadership Council, an organization made up of health care company CEOs, among his clients.
He has also aided the New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. All 3 big banks accepted bailout funds, a Dem source pointed out.
Coats also did business with Bombardier, the Canadian aerospace and railroad company that manufactures popular regional jet aircraft. Since entering the market, Bombardier has taken significant market share away from US-based Boeing and Airbus, the European aircraft maker. And Coats, who took ex-VP Dan Quayle's House and Senate seat when Quayle advanced, is still benefiting from that relationship -- he lobbied for Cerberus Capital Management, where Quayle works.
Dems will use Coats' lobbying past against him as he takes on Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) later this year. Coats first became a lobbyist in '00 after leaving the Senate. He returned to the profession in '05 after he served as ambassador to Germany.
"As a federally registered lobbyist for big banks, private equity firms, and defense contractors, Dan Coats defines what it means to be a Washington DC insider," DSCC spokesperson Deirdre Murphy said. "Hoosiers are not going to welcome home a lobbyist who has taken money from the very special interests and Wall Street banks that brought on the economic crisis and hurt working families."
Meanwhile, GOPers will push back by claiming Bayh is the true DC insider. Bayh went home just 20 times in the last 2 years for which records are available -- including just 7 trips home in '08. The NRSC has signaled it will also challenge whether it is appropriate for Bayh's wife to be sitting on corporate boards, and to be raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
"At a time when Indiana's unemployment is at 9.9% and Evan Bayh has been sitting in Washington maxing out the government credit card, any work Dan Coats has done in the private sector will be irrelevant in this race," NRSC spokesperson Brian Walsh said. "Particularly when you consider the millions of dollars the Bayh family partnership has earned over the years, I can't imagine Democrats would really want to shine a big light on how they've earned that money."
A complete list of Coats' lobbying clients, as provided by a Dem source, after the jump.
A complete list of Coats' clients, past and present:
Achema Group
Ad Hoc Coalition For Fair Pipe Imports From China
Afterschool Alliance
AMGEN
Baca Land & Cattle Co
Bank of America
Bellsouth
BET Holdings
Biovail Corp
Bombardier Corp
British Aerospace North America
Canwest Global Communications Corp
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Cerberus Capital Management
City Council of New Orleans
City of Austin, TX
City of New Haven, CT
College Loan Corp
Commercial Information Systems
Confederated Tribes of Coos Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians
Continuum Healthcare Systems
Cooper Industries Ltd
Datatreasury Corp
Davita Inc
Decision Sciences Corp
Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette
Equal Justice Coalition
EqualFootingCom
ErinMeida LLC
Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis
Festo Corp
FirstDoorCom
Forest Society of Maine
GE Transportation Systems
General Electric
Genentech
GetPressCom
Goldman Sachs
Google
Hamilton Group
Harvest Natural Resources
Hatcher Stubbs Land Hollis & Rothschild
Healthcare Leadership Council
Heritage Development
Home Depot Inc.
I Have A Dream Foundation
JA Worldwide
John Maneely Company
Lookheed Martin Corp
Medicines Company
Merle Hay Mall Ltd
Merrill Lynch & Co
Micron Technology Inc
Julian H Robertson
NBC
National Heritage Foundation
New York Stock Exchange
Newport News Shipbuilding
Office of the Governor of the State of Indiana
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
PKD Foundation
Roche Diagnostics Corp
Save CDSOA Coalition
Southern Tier Cement Committee
Sprint Nextel Corp
Towers Perrin Forster & Crosby
United Defense LP
United Health Group
United Pan-Europe Communications
USA Rice Federation
Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center
Verizon
Virginia Commonwealth Trading Co
VISA USA
Vitas Healthcare Corp
Washington Co., OR
Washington Group Int'l
Water Systems Council
Woodfin Suite Hotels
If the teabaggers support this guy then they are even dumber than I thought.
The Dems are so scared
You should see nuts on Political Wire
Bye Bye Bayh Liberal
Bayh a liberal? Hahahahaha!
Coats apparently also "lobbied for a Texas-based oil and gas company that partnered with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez," Politico reports.
He's the teabagger's DREAM candidate. They love them some corporate lobbyists!
While I have no great love for Bayh who is a disgrace to the memory of his father, Coats is a prime example of the "revolving door" republican corruption that is destroying our government. He does not even live in Indiana and hasn't for years.
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