Former GOP Establishment House Majority Leader and lobbyist Dick Armey says Boehner should 'risk everything to pass big, bipartisan bills,' tell them 'I set the terms'-Politico

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Jan-Feb. 2015, "The Prisoner of Capitol Hill," Politico, Glenn Thrush

p. 1, "Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who served with Boehner in the 1990s, admires Boehner’s patience but says the time has come to risk everything to pass big bipartisan bills. “You need to say, ‘I’m the speaker, and while I am the speaker, I set the terms."" (end of page)

p. 3,  (Armey): "“He was just so cool, as cool as Dean Martin—I think I coined the Dean Martin thing,” recalls Armey, who was Gingrich’s No. 2. “His only Achilles’ heel was that he loved golf so much, it really cut against who he really was, the guy with blue-collar roots.”"...

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10/29/2009, "Hot Links: Dick Armey’s contradictions," Dallas Morning News, Brooks Egerton

"At DLA Piper, Dick Armey (right) made $750,000 a year lobbying for clients such as a wind farm that sought tax credits under the Obama stimulus package.

At FreedomWorks, the former House majority leader from Denton County makes $500,000 a year to proclaim, among other things, that “billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies have done little to make alternative energy sources more practical.”

Dave Michaels, a reporter in The Dallas Morning News‘ Washington bureau, takes a long look today at Armey’s dual roles.

While FreedomWorks is often “antagonistic to politicians of both parties … the general disposition of the lobbyist is to be sweet to officeholders,” Armey acknowledged. “This is always a problem, and people have struggled with it in Washington.

“Few have mastered it as I have.”" 

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12/3/2012, "Dick Armey quits FreedomWorks," Washington Post, Rachel Weiner




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