Here's an adorable lobbyist love story for you.
Staffer and lobbyist get engaged
Jen Daulby, 29, counsel for the House Agriculture Committee, accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Ed Kaleta, on the Speaker's Balcony last month.
Kaleta, 32, is a lobbyist for Humana. The couple have been dating for a year and a half. They met while Daulby was a legislative assistant for Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Kaleta was a lobbyist for Caterpillar. Kaleta lobbied Daulby on a labor issue, and one thing led to another. They plan to wed in August 2006.
Daulby began working for uber-asshole Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) as a legislative assistant in 2002. In 2003, she went to work for the House Ag Committee, where she stayed as a legal counsel until 2005. She went to work for Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) from 2005-2006. And... then she went to work as a lobbyist for Monsanto, which is where she works now.
During the first quarter of this year, she was involved in lobbying on biotech acceptance, getting preferential treatment for crop insurance for biotech crops, the Employee Free Choice Act, S.560 (a bill that would require the DOJ to review agriculture mergers), phosphate mining, the Waxman-Markey bill, the "Glyphosate Stewardship Program" (what's that??), several free trade agreements, and pressuring foreign countries to accept biotech. |
