Why Does a Lobbyist PR Firm Hire Another Lobbyist PR Firm to Lobby For Them?

We were tipped off to this story by citizens who noticed it while researching information via the web. Just another example of the "Mules" carrying on their bad, or should we say, BARD traditions of using minorities to further their destructive agenda?

On the 2010 registered lobbyists list from the Alabama Ethics Commission website, there are two lobbyist entries that caught someone's attention:

Jones Group, LLC The
111 Washington Avenue
334-832-7334
Montgomery, AL 36104

Their clients from the PDF file on record AEC:

Abbott Laboratories, Inc.

Alabama Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc.

Alabama Gamefowl Breeders Association

Alabama State Employees Association

Alabama State University

Alabama Cable Telecommunications Association

John Guthrie, Jr. and Associates

Greene Track Incorporated

Community Action Association of Alabama

City of Montgomery

Community Education Centers, Inc.

Community Care Network, Inc.

LKQ Corporation

Stephen Bradley & Associates, LLC

South University

Tuskegee University

Tom Coker & Associates

P. Michael Cole, L.L.C.

Maynard, Cooper & Gale, PC

Pfizer Inc.

Perry Uniontown Ventures 1, LLC (Owners of the dump site where the coal ash from the TVA Spill is being sent to. Guy McCullough, Bradley's partner is their PR man.)

In checking on this group by visiting their web page, they are solely minority owned and operated and appear to be involved in some worthy monority causes and issues.

Except for two; Stephen Bradley & Associates and Perry County Ventures.

We have been told phone calls were made to the Jones Group and were not returned when the issue was raised about Mr. Bradley's history and current endeavors in Shelby County, Alabama. The callers wanted to know why, a minority owned firm would lobby for a "well to do" Caucasian firm, that is pushing for a large quarry in Vincent that will have a huge impact on Vincent's minority population.

An adverse effect for those people is putting it mildly. That has been covered previously in this blog.

Did Mr. Bradley hire this firm as a "voice" to the black communities he seeks to invade with his client's companies? Or did he hire this firm to act as a go between to black leaders and lawmakers to help "get them on board" with his client's interests?

This is one of the problems in Alabama that minority residents face and the press will not touch--the selling out to big business by strong minority groups and black politicians who claim to represent the best interests of "their people." We see this with the SCLC (Calvin Woods New South Coalition), Tuskegee Institute, Artur Davis, Albert Turner, Jr. in Perrytown, Sheila Smoot, Larry Langford, William Bell and a long list of others.

The lure of money and power is strong and the Big Mules have learned that the very people they once oppressed are valuable allies in pushing their agenda into minority areas through faces that are much more familiar to these communities than the faces of the Big Mules.

History tells us that the "Mules" tactics have never been in the best interest of minority groups and we suspect once again it is profit over people that rules the day.

Reader decide.