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The first paragraph has an incorrect conclusion. Abramoff at Preston Gates hired Reed as a subcontractor for lobbying against the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. Reed's firm was simultaneously on retainer with Microsoft, but the two are not ipso facto related.
The second paragraph is disputed at Talk:Jack Abramoff. The Abramoff quote in Vanity Fair alludes to competing Republican lobbyists, and does not focus on PG in any way. Also, it has been pointed out that Melinda Gates joined the board of the Washington Post nearly 8 months after the article exposing Abramoff was published. The choice of words seems to try to draw some false correlation between these two events which does not make sense. The remainder is not topical to this article, although the fact that the Gates Foundation and Microsoft are clients might be added in a section. KWH 17:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
The above removal is misguided. The roll of Preston Gates and its powerful lobby efforts has been well documented in all of the Seattle Papers and the connection to the Washington Post is undenighable. Abramoff's credibility is not an issue and his comments in Vanity Fair and the reference to Preston Gates is one of the most significant journalistic points to be made about Preston Gates and Ellis. Mellinda Gates board position is secondary to Warren Buffet's position on the Post. Warren Buffet is a long time Gates family friend. The following was added:
This page takes on special significance as the Chairman of Preston Gates and Ellis, Bill Neukom seeks to take his ethical standards to the American Bar Association. Neukom likely will become the next President of the ABA and further degrade the legal profession in that roll.
I have removed the unsigned additions added by the user above. None of the user's statements were correctly sourced. None of the sources provided by the user above discussed Preston Gates & Ellis' connection to the Abramoff scandal, which appears to involve lobbying at Greenberg Traurig. In addition, the user has attempted to link unrelated events (such as Seattle Weekly's turnover) to Preston's former lobbying. These allegations appear to be unfounded, and not supported by the source material. Likewise, the allegations that Abramoff stole trade secrets from Preston Gates & Ellis are not supported by any source material. As KWH discussed, these edits appear to be an attempt to draw conclusions from false correlations. CopaceticYawp ( talk) 22:24, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
References
PG&E just merged with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart. Should the articles be merged?
Everything in this section needs a reference, since it currently appears to be almost entirely unsourced propaganda. Anything that can't be sourced will be removed per NPOV. Thanks, Cumulus Clouds ( talk) 18:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 12:49, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
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I have removed the following content:
The first paragraph has an incorrect conclusion. Abramoff at Preston Gates hired Reed as a subcontractor for lobbying against the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. Reed's firm was simultaneously on retainer with Microsoft, but the two are not ipso facto related.
The second paragraph is disputed at Talk:Jack Abramoff. The Abramoff quote in Vanity Fair alludes to competing Republican lobbyists, and does not focus on PG in any way. Also, it has been pointed out that Melinda Gates joined the board of the Washington Post nearly 8 months after the article exposing Abramoff was published. The choice of words seems to try to draw some false correlation between these two events which does not make sense. The remainder is not topical to this article, although the fact that the Gates Foundation and Microsoft are clients might be added in a section. KWH 17:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
The above removal is misguided. The roll of Preston Gates and its powerful lobby efforts has been well documented in all of the Seattle Papers and the connection to the Washington Post is undenighable. Abramoff's credibility is not an issue and his comments in Vanity Fair and the reference to Preston Gates is one of the most significant journalistic points to be made about Preston Gates and Ellis. Mellinda Gates board position is secondary to Warren Buffet's position on the Post. Warren Buffet is a long time Gates family friend. The following was added:
This page takes on special significance as the Chairman of Preston Gates and Ellis, Bill Neukom seeks to take his ethical standards to the American Bar Association. Neukom likely will become the next President of the ABA and further degrade the legal profession in that roll.
I have removed the unsigned additions added by the user above. None of the user's statements were correctly sourced. None of the sources provided by the user above discussed Preston Gates & Ellis' connection to the Abramoff scandal, which appears to involve lobbying at Greenberg Traurig. In addition, the user has attempted to link unrelated events (such as Seattle Weekly's turnover) to Preston's former lobbying. These allegations appear to be unfounded, and not supported by the source material. Likewise, the allegations that Abramoff stole trade secrets from Preston Gates & Ellis are not supported by any source material. As KWH discussed, these edits appear to be an attempt to draw conclusions from false correlations. CopaceticYawp ( talk) 22:24, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
References
PG&E just merged with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart. Should the articles be merged?
Everything in this section needs a reference, since it currently appears to be almost entirely unsourced propaganda. Anything that can't be sourced will be removed per NPOV. Thanks, Cumulus Clouds ( talk) 18:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 12:49, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
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