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Let me introduce you to Michael Torrey. Right now he owns his own lobby firm (Michael Torrey Associates) where he lobbies for clients like the Snack Food Association, dairy giant Dean Foods, WhiteWave Foods (Silk Soymilk), Agricultural Professional Services, the Crop Insurance Research Bureau (an insurance industry trade group), Veriprime (a beef cooperative), and Rudolph Foods (a pork rinds company).
Torrey began his career way back in 1987 when he worked for the Kansas Grain & Feed Association. From there, he went into government work as a staffer for Republican Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum from 1990-93. In 1993, he left governmet for the private sector as the Vice President of the Kansas Grain and Feed Association and Kansas Fertilizer Association.
Then he went back to government, as legislative assistant to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole from 1993-95. In 1996 he worked on Dole's Presidential campaign and he worked as a legislative assistant for Senator Sheila Frahm. Then he got a job at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he stayed until 1998.
In 1998, he went into lobbying, as the VP of Legislative Affairs for the International Dairy Foods Association (a group hated by most dairy farmers I know). He stayed there until 2003, when he got a job in the Bush Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations at the USDA. In 2004, he changed jobs within the USDA to become Deputy Chief of Staff. In 2005, he left the USDA to found his own lobby firm.
In the 2008 election cycle, Torrey gave $21,200 in political contributions. That includes:
$3000 to Jerry Moran for Congress (R-KS)
$3000 to Todd Tiahrt for Congress (R-KS)
$2500 to Restore America PAC, Inc (Sam Brownback's PAC)
$2300 to John McCain for President (R-AZ)
$2300 to Sam Brownback for President (R-KS)
$2300 to Lynn Jenkins for Congress (R-KS)
$2300 to Elizabeth Dole for Senate (R-NC)
$1000 to Mike Johanns for Senate (R-NE)
$1000 to the North Carolina Federal Senate Committee (Republican)
$1000 to Friends of John Boehner
$500 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee
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