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John Kerry Sports Hockey Injuries at Boston Bruins White House Visit

jim — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:56:00 +0000

During the White House visit for the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins on Monday, Senator John Kerry made an impression on the hockey players in attendance. Kerry walked in showing off a broken nose and two black eyes.

Kerry, 68, and the senior Democrat from Massachusetts, suffered the injuries over the holidays while playing in a pickup hockey game. Kerry was hit in the face with a stick during the game.

“He’s totally fine,” Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith said. “Very ironically he busted his nose recently playing ice hockey, so the Bruins can certainly relate.”

Kerry is an avid hockey fan and has played the game for quite a few years now, usually in the forward/right wing position. Kerry takes part in the Congressional Hockey Challenge, which is a charity event that takes place between lawmakers and lobbyists. The event raises money, in the thousands, for the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club from Washington D.C. Some might say that Kerry received those black eyes and the broken nose while working in government but he and his spokeswoman claim that the injury occurred during a hockey game. I guess its easy to see his love for hockey since he is from one of the New England states, which boast some of the best collegiate ice hockey teams in the country.

BGR Group Loses Four

Erik Even — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:11:32 +0000

BGR Group has lost four staffers, including Democratic bigwigs Michael Meehan and David DiMartino.

Meehan and DiMartino were the lobbying firm’s first Democratic hires, when the traditionally Republican firm went bipartisan in 2007.

The pair will head spin-off firm Blue Line Strategic Communications. Two unnamed BGR staffers are joining them.

Meehan was chief of staff to Washington Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, and an adviser on John Kerry’s presidential campaign.

BGR Group is a bipartisan government relations, strategic communications, and investment banking firm with offices in Washington DC and London.

Wolf Block Groups Join Nelson Mullins

Erik Even — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:15:24 +0000

Lawyers from the Washington, DC and Boston offices of now-defunct Wolf Block will join the Columbia, South Carolina office of Nelson Mullins.

Those resurfacing at Nelson Mullins include five Boston partners, including Wolf Block Public Strategies CEO Robert Crow; two associates and two lobbyists from Boston; and a lobbyist from Washington.

Crowe was co-chairperson for finance for the Democratic National Committee during the 2004 presidential campaign, and is co-chairperson of Senator John Kerry’s finance committee and political action committee.

Wolf Block’s partnership dissolved the 106-year-old firm on March 23th.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is a large US law firm and lobbying group based in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2007, the National Law Journal ranked the firm the the largest in South Carolina and 111th largest in the United States. The firm also ranked 127th in profit per attorney on the 2007 Am Law 200 survey.

Nader “Unlawful Litigation” Suit Against Kerry-Edwards Shot Down Again

Erik Even — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:59:42 +0000

The Legal Times Blog reports that a US district judge has dismissed Ralph Nader’s latest attempt to prove he was the target of a conspiracy by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to keep him off the presidential ballot.

In October 2007, as much of the country began turning its attention to a new and promising presidential showdown, Nader filed suit against the defunct ’04 Democratic ticket, accusing it of launching “a massive, nationwide unlawful litigation assault” on his campaign. The suit, originally filed in D.C. Superior Court, was eventually removed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where it was finally dismissed this May on jurisdiction grounds.

Nader, represented by Center for Competitive Democracy founder Oliver Hall, filed a second version of the suit with the District Court. But in an opinion released today, Judge Ricardo Urbina determined that Nader’s second try was too similar to his first and dismissed the updated complaint.

According to Nader counsel Carl Mayer:

…this was the most massive anti-democratic campaign to eliminate a third-party candidate from the ballot in… recent American history. Not content with having all these laws and statutes on the book that make it difficult for third-party and independent candidates to run, the Democratic Party and their allies in over fifty-three law firms, with over ninety lawyers, were engaged in filing litigation in eighteen states. They were to remove Ralph Nader from the ballot. It was an organized, abusive litigation process.

The core of the lawsuit is that these lawyers, led by Toby Moffett and Elizabeth Holtzman, and something called the “Ballot Project,” which was a 527 organization, systematically went around the country and filed lawsuit after lawsuit, twenty-four in all, plus five FEC complaints, to try to completely remove the Nader campaign from the ballot and to, in effect, bankrupt the campaign, which they succeeded in doing. Not content with that, one of the defendants, Reed Smith, which is a large corporate law firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they are now going after Ralph Nader’s personal bank account to make him pay some of the cost of this litigation.

Ralph Nader is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and perennial candidate for Presidency, as an independent candidate for President in 2004 and 2008, and a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000.