From Roll Call:
The government consulting firm of former Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., the Lincoln Policy Group, has registered to lobby for the Las Vegas Sands Corp....
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. In the 2011-2012 election cycle, Adelson and his spouse contributed $100 million to various Republican committees, including $96,280,000 to Super PACs and $3,800,000 to Section 527 organizations.
Former Sen. Blanche Lincoln will be the lobbyist along with Robert Holifield, the former staff director of the Senate Finance subcommittee on International Trade, and former staff director at the Senate Agriculture Committee.
They will lobby on “legislation that would reinstate the policy banning internet gambling (i.e. restore the Wire Act).”
Senator Blanche Lincoln, a
Third Way co-chair emeritus, is also a "special policy advisor" for
Walmart.
Former Democratic representative Shelley Berkley used to work for Sheldon Adelson in the 1990s, but they had a major falling out over differing views on labor and her decision to run for Congress as a Democrat:
“He called me into his office after I announced and he said, ‘Why don’t you become a Republican? If you become a Republican, I’ll support you, help with your campaign,’ ” Berkley recalled. “I said, ‘Sheldon, I can’t be a Republican. I’ve held elected office as a Democrat, my grandparents came off the boat as Democrats. I can’t do that.’ And he said, ‘I’m going to destroy the union. The only way to destroy the union is to destroy the Democratic Party. If I destroy you, I gave you a chance to change.’ … It turned into a horrible, brutal, very personal thing.”
Swell guy, that Sheldon.