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In 2000, DSG's Catherine "Kiki" Moore ran Al Gore's campaign press office in Washington DC. "Her firm, which has received at least $ 10,000 in consulting fees from the Gore campaign, has lobbied for [[Visa]], [[MasterCard]] and [[Northwest Airlines]]," reported ''The Nation'' (Nov. 15, 1999).
It's common practice for corporate lobbyists to work with political campaigns, writes the ''Washington Post'', since "heavyweight lobbyists are often made or broken by their performance as consultants to major-party candidates. Winning the White House is not essential; merely playing at the top level is credential enough." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A4253-2004Apr11¬Found=true]
In 2004, the [[Democratic National Committee]] paid DSG nearly $200,000, mostly for "political consulting." [http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=DEWEY+SQUARE+GROUP+AKA+DSG+STRATEGIES+INC&Cmte=DNC&cycle=2004]
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