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As New Lawyer, Senator Defended Big Tobacco
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... memos to Philip Morriss general counsel. The industry beat back the federal perjury investigation, a significant legal victory at the time, but not one that Ms. Gillibrand is eager to discuss. Now in the Senate seat formerly held by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ms. Gillibrand plays down her work as a lawyer representing Philip Morris, saying she was a junior associate with little control over the cases she was handed and limited involvement in defending the tobacco maker. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/nyregion/27gillibrand... Oh boy, this gets better and better.
New Dem Senator Gillibrand Lobbied For Big Tobacco
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New York Times : The Philip Morris Company did not like to talk about what went on inside its lab in Cologne, Germany, where researchers secretly conducted experiments exploring the effects of cigarette smoking. So when the Justice Department tried to get its hands on that research in 1996 to prove that tobacco industry executives had lied about the dangers of smoking, the company moved to fend off the effort with the help of a highly regarded young lawyer named Kirsten Rutnik. Read the whole story: ...
Googling rapid response
Ben Smith's Blog —
... It won't stop the direct mail, but Senator Kristen Gillibrand is trying out a novel approach to responding to a damaging, front-page New York Times story that paints her as, more or less, the bad guy in ...
Figthing Bad Press with Google
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is using Google Ad Words to respond to an unfavorable New York Times story this morning on her history of defending tobacco companies as a young lawyer. ...
Brian Keeler: Gillibrand Hit Piece by the Times ~ A Classic Study
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... If you were creating a Wikipedia entry for the term, "Hit Piece," you couldn't do much better than using today's New York Times offering about Senator Gillibrand's early work as a lawyer as a perfect example. They employed classic tactics. Simply put, they used quotes that do nothing but praise her dedication, drive and work ethic, to support quite a different meaning; framing that work as an ominous piece about her past. ...
