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Posts Tagged ‘chris lehane’

Some Actions Have Consequences

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Oh, did you catch me doing somethingMeet Chris Lehane. He was a spinmaster for Clinton who served as Gore’s spokesman during the 2000 campaign but ditched Kerry in 2003 over stylistic differences. Since then he and his business partner, Democratic hack Mark Fabiani, have built a (one assumes) lucrative business as hacks-for-hire, representing everyone from Kobe Bryant to former California Governor Grey Davis to the Screen Actors Guild to a number of unions united under the Change to Win banner. Recently, though, Lehane and Fabiani picked up a new client: the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, who are trying to bust the writer’s strike. Hmm.

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Gossip Roundup: Friends in High Places

Monday, March 6th, 2006

* Washington Whispers: Kerry raises $250,000 for three Democratic candidates in 24 hours. . . Washington-based Al Jazeera news channel, which launches late this spring, finds “friends in the administration”. . . Anna Nicole Smith “has done for probate what O.J. did for illegal police search and seizure,” says Chris Lehane, Democratic strategist. [USN&WR]
* Inside the Beltway: National Black Republican Association launches a political magazine. [WT]