Americans love lists and we in the media love to produce them. National Journal, for example, produces a list every March of top lobbying firms based on the amount of lobbying fees a firm reports to Congress.
Now here's a new list for lobbyists to chew on. The 2009 inauguration issue of the magazine Capitol File takes a deeper look at K Street and asks "scores of Washington insiders" to tell them, who is the best dressed? And who has the best Rolodex? And who will be most hurt by Democrats taking firm control of Washington's power levers?
Who the "insiders" are in the poll, the magazine doesn't say.
Highlights of those picked include Jeffrey Kimbell, a healthcare lobbyist who owns Jeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, who was named "Smoothest Talker"; Jack Quinn, co-founder and chairman of Quinn Gillespie & Associates was named "Best Dressed"; Wayne Berman, managing director of Ogilvy Government Relations was named the person with the "Best Rolodex"; while the lobbying firm Winning Strategies was named "Most Likely to Take a Hit" with a Democratic administration and Congress in 2009.
Take a look at the list.
--Bara Vaida
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