Posts Tagged ‘Commerce President’
Chicago Style Politics Backfires
October 24th, 2009 | 
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Oh-oh: "One thing I can tell you: They can go out and chase me and chase the Chamber and put stuff in the newspaper. It only . . . drives more and more support. . . . You think we are going to blink because a couple of people are out shooting at us? Tell 'em to put their damn helmets on." Them's fighting words, all the more so when delivered in the feisty, New York accent of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. The 71-year-old was recruited 12 years ago in order to revitalize
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Tags: Chamber Of Commerce, Chicago Style, Commerce President, Fighting Words, Helmets, Politics, President Tom, Tom Donohue, York Accent | 
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Why I Must Defend Barbara Boxer
We’ve all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing on “green” jobs. Boxer, the chairman of the EPW committee, was trying to refute a report commissioned by Alford’s organization stating that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act — which I’ll call “cap-and-sap” — would actually cause a net reduction in jobs. So, marshalling her argumen
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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Cap, Ceo, Chamber Of Commerce, Clean Energy, Commerce President, Democrat Senator, Environment, Epw, Green Jobs, Harry Alford, Markey, Sap, Security Act, Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Boxer, Waxman |
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Senator Barbara Boxer Called Out on Racial Politics By Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford
Black Chamber of Commerce, President and CEO Harry Alford accused Senator Boxer (D-CA) of playing race politics during an EPW Committee hearing on green jobs.
