St Louis Chess Club hires two former members of Congress
By BYRON TAU | 04/28/14 2:00 PM EDT
With Tarini Parti
CHESS CLUB HIRES TWO FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has brought on some major Missouri political heft. The St. Louis-based nonprofit has retained the public relations firm of former Sen. Jim Talent, and the lobbying firm of former Missouri Rep. Earl Thomas Coleman.
According to a lobbying registration filed this week, Coleman will lobby on “opportunities for client to testify before a committee of Congress and the secure sponsorships for H. Res. 169.” The resolution H. Res 169 would designate S. Louis as the “National Chess Capital.”
It was introduced by William Lacy Clay Jr. and currently has 28 co-sponsors. Sen. Claire McCaskill has introduced a Senate version of the resolution that has just one co-sponsor. “We’ve been working very diligently to try to showcase chess as a great educational tool,” said a spokesman for the chess club about their public affairs and advocacy efforts.
Source: http://www.politico.com
They should hire Nakamura as their goodwill ambassador.
Well done. It takes money to make things happen.
As a proud member of the Berkeley Chess Club, and since Berkeley is the home of the truly outstanding Berkeley Chess School, I support Berkeley as the home of chess in the U.S.A. After all, it’s been 50 years since Berkeley has been acknowledged as the home of anything.
Lucymarie Ruth