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The result was speedy keep. There's not even a nomination to delete the article (former-admin close)
Secretaccount 04:20, 11 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep In addition to the New York Time article that Mark Arsten found, the same newspaper profiled him and his brother John
here in 2000, saying that "Tony Podesta is a facilitator, a broker, a translator, who helps businesses understand the ways of Washington." The
Boston Globe called him a "highly successful lobbyist"
here in 2000. The
Washington Post called him and his wife "superlobbyists" and owners of a "large, eye-popping modern-art collection" in an article about their donation of an iconic portrait of Barack Obama to the
National Portrait Galleryhere in 2009. There's a biographical sketch of him on pages 158-159 of
Lobbying in America: A Reference Handbook. Tony Podesta has been a notable Democratic Party activist and lobbyist for 40 years.
Cullen328Let's discuss it 00:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep. A lobbyist with direct connections to the U.S. President is of course notable. --
Evans1982 (
talk) 07:33, 10 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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