Showing posts with label Versant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Versant. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Double Agent?




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Dennis Wolff is the former Pennsylvania commissioner of agriculture. Presently, he is a lobbyist and partner of Versant Strategies. http://www.versantstrategies.net/about/

Versant states:

“Versant” means "having good knowledge of,” and no word could better suit Pennsylvania’s premier public affairs firm specializing in agricultural and rural issues. Versant knows that today’s public policy questions are no longer cut-and-dried, but instead are interconnected and complex.


Versant's lists its clients, which includes "Dairy Policy Action Committee" DPAC.

http://www.versantstrategies.net/clients/

A number of people have had faith in DPAC but...another client not listed on Versant's site is International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) the dairy processor's organization.

However, the Open Secrets site reveals the truth:

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?lname=Baker%2C+Meecee&id=Y00000000770&year=2010

The real question is "having good knowledge of,” what? This is not a case of full transparency. Too bad.