Mitt’s Squeeze Play: How GOP Power Works In The Halls Of Corporate America

4:46 pm EST August 7th, 2008 | Republicans | 3 Comments

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And they call union folks thugs…

Richard Pimentel, a former executive of Huron Consulting Group Inc., contends he lost his job as a financial-management consultant partly in retaliation for refusing the chief executive’s repeated calls to contribute to the former Massachusetts governor’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

The company denies that charge. But officials confirm the authenticity of emails showing that the CEO of the Chicago-based corporate consulting firm, Gary E. Holdren, repeatedly linked his requests for donations to Huron’s business prospects. The emails were provided to The Wall Street Journal by Mr. Pimentel.

‘This is not about me trying to force a political candidate on you and trying to see how you vote,’ Mr. Holdren wrote in one email, dated Jan. 27, 2008, to Huron managing directors, the firm’s senior executives. ‘This is just business and the way business works.’

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3 Responses to “Mitt’s Squeeze Play: How GOP Power Works In The Halls Of Corporate America”

  1. jerry says:
    August 7, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    So if Mitt becomes the VP candidate, we need that photograph along with the Ronald Reagan quip:

    “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

  2. Duros62 says:
    August 8, 2008 at 10:28 am

    That picture is frikin’ awesome.

  3. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 8, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Caption: “Cough, please.”