{"id":7213,"date":"2016-10-24T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:57:42","slug":"leventhal-blasts-the-dumbest-lobbying-campaign-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7213","title":{"rendered":"Leventhal Blasts the Dumbest Lobbying Campaign of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cle4eUuf0AQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the evening of October 20, a representative of Clark Enterprises (Bob Eisenberg) appeared before the Montgomery County Council to testify on the Downtown Bethesda Master Plan. \u00a0Clark has been involved in a dispute with its next-door neighbor, fellow developer Brookfield Properties, over Brookfield&#8217;s plan to erect a new building on top of the Bethesda Metro Station. \u00a0Clark hired PR firm KOFA Public Affairs to wage a campaign to block the new building\u00a0that accused Council Members of being tools of developers and criticized their salaries. \u00a0Accordingly, we labeled it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7110\">&#8220;The Dumbest Lobbying Campaign of All Time&#8221;<\/a> since even dimwitted lobbyists understand that elected officials don&#8217;t respond well to attacks on their integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Above is the reaction of Council Member George Leventhal to KOFA&#8217;s insult-laden campaign. \u00a0Hide the children, folks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. On the evening of October 20, a representative of Clark Enterprises (Bob Eisenberg) appeared before the Montgomery County Council to testify on the Downtown Bethesda Master Plan. \u00a0Clark has been involved in a dispute with its next-door neighbor, fellow developer Brookfield Properties, over Brookfield&#8217;s plan to erect a new building on top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leventhal Blasts the Dumbest Lobbying Campaign of All Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,457,16,335],"tags":[1545,1623,1464,1868],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-bethesda","category-george-leventhal","category-lobbying","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-bethesda","tag-george-leventhal","tag-lobbying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1Sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}