We noted here recently (with favor) that President Obama seems intent on pursuing a long overdue comprehensive fix to our deplorable immigration system. And he’s at it again.
Today, the President told the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington that his adminstration is committed to a profound reform effort not unlike the one that President Bush [...]
Entries from June 2009
Immigration Reform: Future Tense
The Echo Chamber Assesses The White House
If you ever want to get a sense of the latest thinking of the Washington policy wonk echo chamber (not that there’s anything wrong with that), The National Journal regularly goes back to a panel of about 100 prominent Democratic and Republican politicos and asks them about any number of issues.
This time the magazine has [...]
European Parliament Election Results
Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office has issued its own scorecard of the just-held European Parliament elections and their implications for business. The big take away:
Turnout (43%) was lower than 2004 (45%)
The European People’s Party (EPP), Centre-right Christian democrats, were the clear winners of the elections
The Centre-left Party of European Socialists (PES) suffered devastating losses for (especially in [...]
Gordon Brown’s Challenges in Wake of Local and European Parliament Elections
Our Fleishman-Hillard colleagues in London have graciously shared with us a report they issued yesterday analyzing Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s challenges — in light of a whole host of resignations among his Cabinet and party in Parliament. Correspondingly, the Prime Minister’s Labour Party suffered some setbacks in European Parliament elections over the weekend as well, [...]
A Public Affairs Twitter Case Study: Fix Housing First
Late in 2008, a group of home builders approached Fleishman-Hillard. Their goal: Build a coalition to advocate for legislation that would establish a short-term incentive for qualified home buyers. At the time of our first meeting, Congress had just passed an $800 billion bailout bill and the likelihood of further spending on that scale was [...]
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