Ed Gillespie, RNC Chairman

By appointing Ed Gillespie, a leading corporate lobbyist, to head the Republican National Committee, President Bush has opened a conduit for Corporate America to strengthen its already formidable influence in the White House and Congress.

...New Republican party chief should make clean break from lobbying firm (Press Release, July 24, 2003)

...Letter to Ed Gillespie from Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook and Congress Watch Director Frank Clemente (Letter, July 24, 2003)

...Appointment of corporate lobbyist as GOP chief opens White House to Big Business (Press Release, June 16, 2003)

...Ed Gillespie: The Embedded Lobbyist (Report, June 16, 2003)

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