Ousted REPS rush K ST looking for lobbyist jobs, but "REPS are a dime dozen"
Gee, who would have thought there wouldn't be enough LOBBY jobs on K street, especially for REPUBLICANS?
Ex-lawmakers 'scrambling and looking' for lobbying gigs
So many former House Republicans are considering heading to K Street that not all of them are likely to find work.
By THEODORIC MEYER
01/14/2019 05:02 AM EST
When Sen. Heidi Heitkamp threw a party to thank friends and supporters at an Italian restaurant on Capitol Hill last month, Vic Fazio, a former congressman who’s now a lobbyist, saw an opportunity.
Fazio found the North Dakota Democrat, who’d just lost her bid for reelection, and pressed his card into her palm.
“We should talk,” Fazio told her, according to a person in the room.
Heitkamp has no plans to become a lobbyist, according to Tessa Gould, her former chief of staff. But the brief exchange was one of the countless quiet conversations taking place among many of the dozens of lawmakers who departed Congress earlier this month and the Washington lobbying firms eager to hire the best-connected among them.
While there aren’t many out-of-work Democrats like Heitkamp right now, more than 60 Republicans exited the House this month, and so many of them are considering heading to K Street that not all of them are likely to find work, according to interviews with lobbyists and headhunters.
"Former Republican congressmen are a dime a dozen right now,” said former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who left Congress a decade ago and is now a lobbyist for Holland & Knight.
“I think there are still a lot of people who are scrambling and looking” for new jobs, he added.
“There’s not enough seats for everybody who wants in,” one Republican lobbyist said, comparing the process to musical chairs...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...ocrats-1098626
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