MPAA bids fairwell to Feehery
p2pnet.net News:- Hollywood is hoping for great things with the Republicans out and the Democrats, in.
But long serving MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) employee John Feehery, with the grand-sounding title of executive vice president of worldwide government affairs, is out, effective immediately.
Described by the Los Angeles Times as a, “former top Republican congressional aide, he’s, “stepping down a month after Democrats took control,”says the story.
“Quite frankly, [last year] we didn’t have the closest of allies and friends [ie, Republican supporters] on the tax committees,” said MPAA boss Dan Glickman recently. But, “It’s much, much better this year.”
Now the D’s are in power, Glickman said he’s so far met with more than two dozen members of Congress, including House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel and senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
“Any tax legislation will first have to go through Rangel’s committee and then the one chaired by Baucus” and, “Glickman calls both men friends,” says the Hollywood Reporter.
“They don’t promise anything, of course, but they are sympathetic to our tax issues. I’m not saying that this Congress is going to be heaven on Earth, but it makes it easier for me to breathe in the new atmosphere with my relationships there.”
Feehery will, says the LA Times, start start his own strategic consulting firm, an event that’s well within tradition for former senior entertaiment cartel workers.
Ex-RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boss Hilary Rosen and ex-IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) supremo Jay Berman did the same almost exactly a year ago.
On their departure from their respective agencies, they teamed up under Berman Rosen Global Strategies.
Not surprisingly, Glickman will now, ” directly manage government affairs and lobbying, the MPAA said,” according to the LA Times, which adds, “Glickman noted recently that he was close to many Democrats.
“I spent 18 years as a Democratic member of Congress and I worked in the Clinton administration, so it’s obvious that I have personally strong ties on the Democratic side.”
Bidnes is bidnes.
Also See:
Los Angeles Times – MPAA executive to step down, February 8, 2007
much, much better – Does Dan’s MPAA crown rest easy?, February 6, 2007
Hollywood Reporter – Glickman’s had tough Hill to climb, February 6, 2007
well within tradition – The Rosen, Berman duo, February 2, 2006
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February 11th, 2007 at 2:16 am
“‘Glickman noted recently that he was close to many Democrats.’”
That’s not a good sign.