Peter Flaherty

Rep. Gregory Meeks Attacks the Wrong Peter Flaherty

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 18:35

Meeks photoIn today’s Queens Chronicle, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) attacked NLPC as “a right-wing, inside-the-Beltway organization with an explicitly stated partisan agenda.” As evidence, Meeks claimed that I  “served as a top advisor to Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign.” The only problem is that Meeks got the wrong Peter Flaherty.

Maybe Meeks should learn how to aim before he fires. Or at least learn how to use Google. The Peter Flaherty who advised Romney is a principal in the Shawmut Group in Boston. He is a former assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County, and served as Vice-President of Walden Media, a film production studio. Flaherty worked as a senior advisor to Mitt Romney while he was governor, and held a senior position in his 2008 presidential campaign. He is also credited with helping to engineer Scott Brown's upset Senate win this year.

Gore Asked to Repudiate Support of Corrupt Unions

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 01/17/2000 - 01:00

On Jan. 6, National Legal & Policy Center President Peter Flaherty criticized Al Gore for accepting the endorsement of the "one of country's most corrupt unions" and planning to appear with a central figure in the Ron Carey-Teamsters money laundering scandal.

On Jan. 5, Gore accepted the endorsement of the Laborers' Int'l Union of N. Am. He praised LIUNA and said he was honored by the endorsement. The Dep't of Justice has charged that LIUNA is controlled by organized crime. Since 1995, LIUNA has operated under a DOJ agreement. Last month, LIUNA president Arthur A. Coia resigned under pressure, and DOJ took over the Local 210 in Buffalo.

On Jan. 8, Gore appeared at an Iowa ‘post-debate party' with Richard L. Trumka, the AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer. Trumka has taken the Fifth Amendment in the Ron Carey-Teamsters money laundering scandal.  Last month, a Carey aide, William W. Hamilton, was convicted of six counts of corruption. Many media sources reported that Trumka may soon be indicted for his central role in the Teamsters scandal.

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