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Pub. Date
2021.
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This memorandum is intended to provide guidance to members of the General Assembly and other interested parties, especially members approaching the completion of their service in the General Assembly, in navigating the legal restrictions under Colorado law that apply to the post-legislative employment of members, including restrictions on their ability to undertake employment as professional lobbyists.
3) Lobbyists
Pub. Date
2010
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Website for lobbyists to file forms electronically with the Department of State.
5) Saving Faith
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A plot by the CIA to blackmail members of Congress into giving the agency more power. For the plot to succeed, a beautiful Washington lobbyist has to be killed, but a detective comes to her aid and they turn the tables on the plotters.
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When Hector Lewis told his daughter that she had a nothing face, it was just another bit of tossed-off cruelty from a man who specialized in harsh words and harsher deeds. But twenty years later, Heloise considers it a blessing to be a person who knows how to avoid attention. In the comfortable suburb where she lives, she's just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capital,...
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As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod,...
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A spoof on the movement to ban smoking. Nick Naylor, a spokesman for the tobacco industry, considers it a privilege to defend the rights of smokers from the neo-puritans, but no one admires him for his idealism. When he is kidnaped by anti-smoking zealots he becomes an instant celebrity and everyone loves him.
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Pub. Date
2007.
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How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how today's government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of the wealthy few.
15) Casino Jack
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Jack Abramoff, the real-life Washington power player, resorted to jaw-dropping levels of fraud and corruption. High-rolling excess and outrageous escapades are all in a day's work for Abramoff as he goes to outrageous lengths to promote the Indian gambling industry, earning him the nickname 'Casino Jack.' But when Jack and his womanizing protege Michael Scanlon enlist a dimwitted business partner for an illegal scheme, they find themselves ensnared...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent with each revelation more explosive than the next.
17) Miss Sloane
Pub. Date
2017
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In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
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"Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife's lifeless body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney, an old friend and college roommate, former DA Philip Rotondi. Speculation swirls around Jonell Marbury, a lobbyist at a powerful K Street firm. But Rotondi harbors his own suspicions, and after a second woman is killed, he finds that a secret from his...
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