Digital footprint of "Pledge For America" PDF points to longtime GOP lobbyist Brian Wild

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Rachel Maddow covered this last night, but I figured I'd share the info she illustrated regarding how the Republican "Pledge To America" was somehow magically written by the people, for the people and by the people...blah, blah, blah...

After downloading the "Pledge To America" PDF from the Republicans, you can see the digital footprint where the PDF was not changed in Acrobat with Document properties and is traceable to Brian Wild, who saved as a PDF from Word on Sept. 22 at 4:20. :smoke:



PDF: http://www.humanevents.com/downloads-pdfs/PledgeToAmerica.pdf

An article, which then was used as a feature on various blogs and late-night MSNBC shows, says this:

Don’t look too closely at the digital paper trail of this document if you don’t appreciate entrenched interests; otherwise, you’d be shocked to learn that the document’s “author,” Brian Wild, is the epitome of a Washington “entrenched interest.”

Mr. Wild, until April of this year, was a registered lobbyist working for some of the most entrenched special interests in Washington. Now he’s on House Republican Leader John Boehner’s (Ohio) government payroll and responsible for the “Pledge.”

Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports that Wild, as a lobbyist at the Nickels Group, “was paid $740,000 in lobbying contracts from AIG, the former insurance company at the heart of the financial collapse; $800,000 from energy giant Andarko Petroleum; more than $1.1 million from Comcast; more than $1.3 million from Exxon Mobil; and $625,000 from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.” Wild has been in and out of the influence-peddling game — having served on the government payrolls of a number of Republican members of Congress (Pat Toomey, Hank Brown) and even Vice President Dick Cheney. Between government payroll gigs, he served as a lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and represented major utilities and mining organizations."

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/120593-gop-blueprint-bashes-special-interests-written-by-special-interests

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1. I've checked 4 different copies including one linked by Malkin

All but the one currently provided on the GOP.com site do in fact have doc props that say Brian Wild was the author.

I capped this from the one linked on Malkin's site:




Malkin gushing about the "Pledge To Give America to Corporations":

"The “Pledge to America” in PDF is here. Give it a read and see what you think. I love it, provided the words jump off the paper and into reality at some point soon. Sure, signing off on political pledges is a little like ordering X-Ray glasses from a comic book — you just know it’s not going to be nearly as good as advertised — but I like the GOP’s effort so far. However, it’s a real shame that the Constitution has to be re-branded once in a while — I kind of like the original.
The Pledge is somewhat similar to Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America, which worked wonders… for a while — until a few deals were reached, a couple compromises were made, and a number of handshakes across the aisle, pats on the back, and Republicans who caved in like third world mine shafts caused things to slip back to right where they were, and then some.
If a pledge can be drawn up for elected Republicans to sign pledging that they pledge to stick to the original pledge for more than a hundred days, that would be a pledge that would help sell this particular pledge.
There are mistakes in the new pledge, however — such as with the Obamacare flowchart. This is way to over-simplified:"

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2. It's the cover-up

Too late, suckas.