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pnwmom

(108,976 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 07:33 PM Sep 2019

How come it's not a bigger deal that Rudy G's text buddy, Kurt Volker, is a DC lobbyist in the BGR

group, who in 2017 accepted an unpaid volunteer gig as the Special Envoy to the Ukraine?

Where does his real loyalty lie? Probably with his paid gigs, I would think.


From his current BGR Group bio:

http://bgrdc.com/b/bio/30/Ambassador-Kurt-Volker?fbclid=IwAR0whXZsGT2gtig_lstwDxhN7eqyySISPvN13K57A8FGxQa6U6A_vg7Rpe8

Ambassador Volker is currently the Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and is a member of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Advisory Group.

Additionally, he serves on the Board of Capital Guardian Funds Trust, the Hungarian Initiatives Foundation, the Atlantic Partnership (U.S.), and is a Trustee of IAU College in Aix-en-Provence, France.

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How come it's not a bigger deal that Rudy G's text buddy, Kurt Volker, is a DC lobbyist in the BGR (Original Post) pnwmom Sep 2019 OP
Good Gawdz. Do any of these people ever work for a living? leftstreet Sep 2019 #1
Grifters gotta GRIFT MagickMuffin Sep 2019 #2
Let's hope he doesn't get away from a subpeona.... asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #3
He's just resigned as US Envoy to Ukraine... targetpractice Sep 2019 #4
As the unpaid, volunteer, Special Envoy to the Ukraine -- pnwmom Sep 2019 #5
Thanks, pwnmom, for the correction... targetpractice Sep 2019 #6
You're welcome. It is confusing pnwmom Sep 2019 #7
House intel just getting started on subpeonas. Amaryllis Sep 2019 #8

leftstreet

(36,106 posts)
1. Good Gawdz. Do any of these people ever work for a living?
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 07:37 PM
Sep 2019

As for not being a big deal...corruption fatigue maybe?

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
3. Let's hope he doesn't get away from a subpeona....
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 07:44 PM
Sep 2019

I searched his name..I know I have heard Volker before...aha..Volcker rule...different spelling...

pnwmom

(108,976 posts)
5. As the unpaid, volunteer, Special Envoy to the Ukraine --
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 07:53 PM
Sep 2019

who was also working for a DC lobbying firm.

I believe he was referred to as Ambassador Volker out of courtesy, because earlier in his career he had been an Ambassador.

pnwmom

(108,976 posts)
7. You're welcome. It is confusing
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 07:56 PM
Sep 2019

since he once was an Ambassador, and that title is still used sometimes.

From the BGR group link above:

He served as Ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2009, straddling the transition from the Bush to the Obama administrations.

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