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Robert Novak appearing on Inside Politics, December 2004
“... Ed Gillespie? Think of the contacts he has in the White House, on Capitol Hill. It’s the hottest lobbying firm in town, Kelly. If you want to do some lobbying go to Gillespie and Quinn.”
Associated Press, November 2004
With current GOP chair Ed Gillespie returning to the private sector, the Republican National Committee will select a replacement early next year. … Bush, in a statement, praised Gillespie. “He helped bring many new people to our cause by sharing our vision of a safer world and a more hopeful America. His successful efforts in outreach, registration and voter turnout will be an enduring legacy on which to build a long-lasting governing coalition,” Bush said.
The Washington Post, November 2004
Bush’s victory is likely to enlarge the myth of Rove, with all its layers and complexities, but the reality is that Bush’s reelection was secured not by the design or execution of a single person but by a team . . . Others who played significant roles were Bartlett, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, campaign communications director Nicolle Devenish, media adviser Mark McKinnon, rapid response chief Steve Schmidt, political director Terry Nelson, vice presidential advisers I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Mary Matalin, and presidential confidante Karen Hughes. Many were regular members of a breakfast group at Rove’s house where strategy was developed and great quantities of cholesterol consumed.
Detroit News, November 2004
Marc Lampkin, Bush’s deputy campaign manager in 2000, stressed that Bush’s key to victory was the tens of thousands of volunteers recruited across the country who hung signs, made phone calls, and then helped turn out the record vote.
Legal Times, November 2004
If Pennsylvania is a must-have battleground state for Sen. John Kerry, then the four suburban counties flanking Philadelphia could prove his Waterloo. It’s Quinn Gillespie & Associates’ Bruce Andrews’ job to ensure that doesn’t happen. As political director for the Kerry-Edwards coordinating committee in Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties — an area with more than a sixth of the state’s population — Andrews is charged with directing the push to tip the suburbs into the Democratic column in a state where rural Republican and urban Democratic votes roughly cancel each other out.
National Journal, October 2004
Pioneer Marc Lampkin of the lobbying shop Quinn Gillespie & Associates also departed in mid-October for a two-week stint in Wisconsin, where he is overseeing some 40 volunteers, many from the lobbying community, as part of the RNC’s expanded get-out-the-vote effort. Lampkin, who was the deputy campaign manager in Bush’s 2000 campaign, said the voter-turnout work “is where the rubber meets the road and where the election is going to be decided.”
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Roll Call, October 2004
Figuring out which voters to motivate “is just about done now, so it’s all about revving up turnout,” said Marc Lampkin, a Republican lobbyist with Quinn Gillespie & Associates who has spent the past few weeks working the Republican suburbs of Milwaukee, for Bush. “It’s phone calls, a few signs, organizing stuff and planning for the last get-out-the-vote effort.” Meanwhile, Lampkin’s Democratic partner at Quinn Gillespie, Bruce Andrews, has spent the past several weekends in the suburbs of Philadelphia working to motivate Democratic voters to support Kerry.
National Journal, October 2004
Virginia Hume, of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, said her firm has begun to use the Internet and e-mail to provide ongoing interactive services to clients’ targeted audiences. For its client FM Policy Focus, a coalition of financial services firms that advocate reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Quinn Gillespie sends twice-a-month e-mail newsletters to a list of politicos, private citizens, and reporters. The graphics-heavy newsletters link readers to the platform of FM Policy Focus and drive readers to its Web site.
Los Angeles Times, September 2004
“[Dick Cheney] has been more involved on a day-to-day basis in trying to put together Bush’s legislative agenda than any vice president I’ve known,” said David Hoppe, a lobbyist with long experience on Capitol Hill. “He is sticking in the shovel and digging through it more than any other vice president.”
National Journal, August 2004
As Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie mixed it up with White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, several Cabinet members, and countless members of Congress over sushi and Chardonnay last night, seven New York police officers patrolled outside the swank Guastavino’s restaurant built into the Queensboro Bridge . . . Security plans for last night’s “Salute to GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie” were six months in the making. “Given Ed’s role as chairman, we fully expected him to attract a very senior VIP crowd — it was a fundamental part of our thinking from the very beginning,” said Rick Powell, managing director at Quinn Gillespie & Associates.
The Hill, June 2004
“The home of former Democratic White House hand Jack Quinn and Republican Ed Gillespie (when he’s not running the RNC), this firm has become one of the top full-service shops around, combining lobbying and public-affairs prowess.”
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The Washington Post, April 2004
“Politics today is about the primacy of packaging, and Eddie Gillespie, who started as a kid in the RNC basement, cold-calling for dollars, is one of the finest packagers the Republican Party has called up in years... He has put his head down and gutted out many a policy or communications crisis, say those who have worked with him. Weaving in and out of his political activity, Gillespie has lobbied, first at [Haley] Barbour’s firm and later at his own, Quinn Gillespie, which he formed with Clinton White House counsel Jack Quinn in 2000. During his term as RNC chair, which began last summer, he remains a partner but is on leave without pay.”
National Journal, March 2004
“At a time when some lobbyists are making news for all the wrong reasons, Quinn Gillespie’s David Hoppe stands out. Ask around town about the former “chief of staff” to ... Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and expect to hear words such as ‘mature,’ ‘solid,’ and ’credible’ from Democrats and Republicans alike. With his one-year ban on lobbying 13 Senate leaders and their aides over, Hoppe can now ply his new trade unfettered in the upper chamber. But Hoppe already helped the firm boost earnings nearly 20 percent last year ... according to Managing Director Richard Powell — even with name partner Ed Gillespie on a leave of absence to run the Republican National Committee. Partner Jeff Connaughton credits Hoppe with helping to fill the rainmaking role that Gillespie left open.”
The Hill, March 2004
“Jack Quinn named one of Washington, DC’s Top Lobbyist: The Democratic half of the Quinn Gillespie team, Quinn is holding down the fort now that partner Ed Gillespie is heading the Republican National Committee.”
National Journal, March 2004
“The Kerry campaign reports that it now has 182 elite fundraisers nationwide, including 59 “co-chairs” who have raised more than 0,000 apiece... Kerry’s co-chairs from K Street include Manny Ortiz of Quinn Gillespie & Associates.”
Influence Magazine, March 2004
Quinn Gillespie & Associates named one of the top five lobbying shops by Influence Magazine. “Quinn Gillespie & Associates, grew by about 20 percent, even with co-founder Edward Gillespie on leave for part of the year to serve as chairman of the Republican National Committee.”
National Journal, March 2004
“EADS, Europe’s largest aerospace company, has stepped up its lobbying presence in Washington by hiring Quinn Gillespie & Associates. The European company is making a substantial investment to bring new jobs to the United States, ‘and we needed help,’ said Sam Adcock, EADS’ executive vice president of government affairs.”
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