Though I haven't heard of her entering a 12-step program or anything, she has the burden of being a contributor to Billy Long's re-election campaign.
She didn't give much. Long's quarterly report, filed Saturday with the FEC, shows she contributed $250 on June 27.
Apparently, Long's people did not know much about Ms. Waltzman, since they did not list an occupation on the report, simply writing "employer requested."
It took me a five second online search to find her employer.
She's a lobbyist. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) She works for the powerful firm of Steptoe & Johnson, and is described this way on her page on the firm's website:
Lisa M. Waltzman is a policy advisor for the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where she is affiliated with the Government Affairs & Public Policy practice.Ms. Waltzman is a Capitol Hill veteran who provides advice on a range of issues from legislative strategy to policy analysis to fundraising. She combines an extensive understanding of a range of policy matters with a unique knowledge in the sometimes arcane Rules of the United States House of Representatives.Prior to working with the firm, Ms. Waltzman was President of LWM Strategies, where she devised and implemented government affairs strategies, advocated on behalf of clients before the House and Senate Commerce and Homeland Security Committees and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, drafted and edited policy documents, assisted in event planning and lobbying activities, and coordinated fundraising activities.
Her description goes on for a few more paragraphs.
She's a lobbyist.
And not the only one who conributed to Billy Long's campaign, according to the report.
Long's people were able to come up with a job description for Robert H. Dunkel. He works for Dunkel Government Relations. Government relations, of course, is another way of saying lobbying. Dunkel contributed $500.
He's a lobbyist. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
And how about that $1,000 contribution from the Hunton & Williams firm of Richmond, Va. Check this description from the firm's website:
The professionals in the Hunton & Williams government relations practice have the skills, discretion, and reputation to ensure that our clients' views are given due consideration in the public policy debate. Our government relations team comprises attorneys and legislative professionals committed to representing our clients' interests at all levels of local, regional, national and cross-border governing bodies in the United States and abroad. In this wide-ranging practice, we combine legal and advocacy skills with strategic experience that has been developed over decades of work on an extensive variety of legislative, regulatory, and policy projects.Members of the Hunton & Williams government relations team have years of experience both in private practice and in the public arena. Our team includes several former counsel to congressional committees, as well as attorneys whose legal careers have focused on legislation, administrative and regulatory matters. We can draw on the experience of regulatory attorneys from throughout the firm, and can also work closely with our clients' existing resources in order to deploy them to their greatest effect.
They're lobbyists. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
And chalk up $500 from the Wiley Rein firm of Washington on June 18, whose lobbying activities are described at this link.
They're lobbyists. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
The contributions that have been written about in this post only add up to $2,250. Not much in the big scheme of things. Long, after all, reported $104,497 in contributions during the past three months, most of them coming from special interests, and many of them arranged by the same kind of government services professionals who call themselves all types of pleasant sounding names to avoid the term lobbyist.
Maybe there is something wrong with that.
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From yesterday: Las Vegas, Beverly Hills trips featured on Billy Long's quarterly report
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