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#BalladPartners Ballard Partners is a lobbying firm that was hired by 149 clients in 2020, for a total amount of $24,430,000. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/summary?cycle=2020&id=D000037635
#Thread /1
#Thread /1
Revelvancy: #ChrisDorworth who is named & entangled in the saga of #MattGaetz #JoelGreenberg #JasonPirrozolo & likely many others. Dorworth resigned today, 9 April amid circulating reports of his involvement in schemes to plant 3rd Party Candidates on ballots to draw votes. /2
Groups that have retained #BallardPartners in 2020 listed here & below in /4. Notable as it pertains to #MattGaetz Line 46: City of Pensacola (District 1 NWFL) - Industry: Civil Servants in the amount of $80k /3
Groups that have retained #BallardPartners in 2020 listed here & above in /3 Notable as it pertains to #MattGaetz Line 111: Okaloosa County FL (District 1 NWFL) - Industry: Civil Servants in the amount of $80k /4
Agencies lobbied by #BallardPartners & Issues lobbied by Ballard in 2020 /5
Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. (page updated May 17, 2016) http://www.p2016.org/trump/trumporg.html
Listed for Florida is Chairman Joe Gruters & Co-Chair Susan Summerall Wiles- Managing partner of the Jacksonville office of #BallardPartners from 2011 & principal at Right Coast Strategies. /6
Listed for Florida is Chairman Joe Gruters & Co-Chair Susan Summerall Wiles- Managing partner of the Jacksonville office of #BallardPartners from 2011 & principal at Right Coast Strategies. /6
July 5, 2017 FL LOBBYIST TURNING TRUMP TIES INTO MEGA-MILLIONS by @publicintegrity Represents the cynical example that well-heeled insiders call the tune & the rest of us are left on the outside looking in—hardly the draining of the swamp. https://publicintegrity.org/politics/florida-lobbyist-turning-trump-ties-into-mega-millions/ /7
Turkey’s Lobbyists Had Deep Access to Trump White House #BallardPartners, dubbed “the Most Powerful Lobbyist in Trump’s Washington,” ended its contract with #Turkey’s state-run #Halkbank last week, 1-day after that bank’s indictment in a record-breaking money-laundering scheme./8
#BallardPartners, run by Trump’s top Florida fundraiser #BrianBallard, spent more than 2yrs & made roughly $2M representing the Turkish government & #Halkbank. Ballard bundled $295k to Trump Victory PAC & donated 10s of thousands more to Trump’s campaign & associates. /9
May 11 2017 #BallardPartners signed Turkey as a client, Wexler spent more than $8k of the Turkish gov’s $ on travel. #Erdoğan had his first Oval Office summit w/Trump 5 days later, as Erdoğan’s bodyguards assaulted peaceful protesters on the streets./10 https://www.courthousenews.com/turkeys-lobbyists-had-deep-access-to-trump-white-house/
More: Welcome to ‘Trump Season’ at Mar-a-Lago, an oasis as impeachment looms
November 23, 2019 @maddogpac
https://maddogpac.com/blogs/press/welcome-to-trump-season-at-mar-a-lago-an-oasis-as-impeachment-looms /11
November 23, 2019 @maddogpac
https://maddogpac.com/blogs/press/welcome-to-trump-season-at-mar-a-lago-an-oasis-as-impeachment-looms /11
Requestor: American Oversight @weareoversight
"all records reflecting communications involving any political appointee of OLC and #BallardPartners and/or Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP" https://www.justice.gov/olc/page/file/1228391/download /12
"all records reflecting communications involving any political appointee of OLC and #BallardPartners and/or Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP" https://www.justice.gov/olc/page/file/1228391/download /12
#Thread by @arapaho415 & add'l researchers @YDanasmithdutra @clearing_fog @ItIsIMack
@carrybeyond @satirehat /12 https://twitter.com/arapaho415/status/1380718175503806464?s=19
@carrybeyond @satirehat /12 https://twitter.com/arapaho415/status/1380718175503806464?s=19
Susie Wells (see /6 of this thread above)
/13 https://twitter.com/DemocracyJourno/status/991398927059447808?s=20
/13 https://twitter.com/DemocracyJourno/status/991398927059447808?s=20
