{"id":7003,"date":"2011-03-08T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2011-03-08T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:10:19","slug":"hodespocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/03\/08\/hodespocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"HodesPocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hodespocrisy<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhinsider.com\/steve-mac-donald\/2011\/3\/7\/paul-hodes-lobbyist.html\">by Steve MacDonald<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/article\/243963\/can-you-say-inexpedient-in-206-languages\">Concord Monitor<\/a> is reporting that Paul Hodes has started a business consultancy. This will have him back and forth to Washington DC for the purpose of connecting northern New England to Washington DC; a lateral move from his role as congressman when he was trying to sign New Hampshire away to Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>The new biz is called Northern Connection, which will provide strategic counseling to businesses and non-profits.  Hodes is keeping his client list confidential, and in the process of determining if he has to register as a lobbyist.  So he will be consulting money up and down the DC-Concord corridor, into and out of the pockets of&#8230;.it&#8217;s a secret.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not hard to figure out, and no one should be surprised.  <a href=\"http:\/\/granitegrok.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/you_want_us_to_take_this_seriously.html\">We called him out on it<\/a>, and yes he already has a well worn familiarity with a lobbyist and earmark culture he cried wolf about <a href=\"http:\/\/granitegrok.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/hodespocrisy_its_mr_crowley.html\">while working the system to fund his Senate campaign<\/a>.  Hodes is a DC creature.  But we commend him on this capitalist shift even if it is just a Hodesian enrichment project resulting from his who&#8217;s-who list of Senate campaign donors, some of the most committed earmarkers ever to walk the earth.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it runs in direct contradiction to everything in his Senate campaign narrative about insider politics,earmarks, spending and revolving-door corruption is just more evidence that he was full of it then, and he&#8217;s full of it now, he just hopes to turn it into a bigger payday.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unionleader.com\/andrew-cline\/index.php\/archives\/1866\">Drew Cline calls him out across the board here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hodespocrisy by Steve MacDonald The Concord Monitor is reporting that Paul Hodes has started a business consultancy. This will have him back and forth to Washington DC for the purpose of connecting northern New England to Washington DC; a lateral move from his role as congressman when he was trying to sign New Hampshire away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7004,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}