Trey Gowdy Resumes Business As Usual With Lobbyists
Back in March, Trey Gowdy was challenging Bob Inglis, incumbent for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district, in the Republican primary election. At that time, Gowdy proudly displayed a newspaper article from The Greensville News which suggested that Republicans were supporting Gowdy’s congressional campaign because “voters are angry with business as usual in Washington”.
In the primary, Gowdy may have campaigned against “business as usual”, but now that he’s in the general election, and so far in front of his Democratic rival that he’s commonly assumed to be as good as sworn in to serve on Capitol Hill, things are different. Gowdy has resumed the same “business as usual” attitude that he blasted when he was campaigning against Representative Inglis.
This coming Wednesday morning, Trey Gowdy is going to hold a special coffee meeting, so that he can talk with his new constituents. No, Gowdy will not be holding this meeting in South Carolina. People in South Carolina can vote for Trey Gowdy, but they’re not really his constituents.
No, Trey Gowdy’s Wednesday morning coffee party will be held in Washington D.C., at a lobbyist’s offices. The lobbying firm that’s hosting Trey Gowdy’s campaign meeting is the Rhoads Group. The Rhoads Group represents corporate accountants Deloitte LLP, European Aeronautic Defence & Space, an electric utility company, Sonardyne International, and UXB International, among many other corporate clients.
The invitation to the event sent out by Trey Gowdy’s aides instructs people who want to attend the lobbyist-organized fundraiser to come carrying checks written to “Trey Gowdy for Congress”.
You can’t get much more business-as-usual than that. Posturing aside, it turns out that Trey Gowdy is just another one of the same old corrupt Washington D.C. politicians he once promised to campaign against.
Update: Just a day after this campaign coffee, Trey Gowdy will take money from yet more lobbyists at another coffee event. This coffee fundraiser is being arranged for Gowdy by the Independent Community Bankers of America and the Mortgage Bankers of America.
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