Subject: Re: Forgot - Hilary Rosen worked for BP after the spill
From: "Rob Norton" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:32 -0400

I've been going through the BP case and came up with an idea that may or may
not work. What if we make the focus of this segment "Advocacy to Establish
Competitive Advantage" and focus on two events - the BP oil spill and the
Toyota recalls. With these two examples, we can look at various levels of
advocacy... state/country-level, commercial lobbying, trade/industry
association all focused on maintaining a "level playing field" for important
national companies working to stay competitive in the U.S. in the face of
big disasters and domestic companies and policymakers hungry for the
opportunity to beat a foreign competitor by any means necessary. Maybe
Hilary Rosen can speak to some of this and/or Secretary Salazar could almost
certainly speak to the commercial interests that came into play after the
spill. The Toyota case would open up NTSB, Dept of Transportation, organized
labor, Members of Congress from automobile producing states, Japanese
government/diplomats.

Let me know what you think.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Rob Norton <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Should we ask her to be a speaker? Not sure what she can or cannot say, but
> if she's restricted by confidentiality, maybe she can just talk
> conceptually... who were the players, what was going on, what BP was facing
> from the outside, etc.

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