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Pioneer Profiles: George W. Bush's $100,000 Club
 
Name: Robert Martinez
Occupation: Managing Director Government Relations, Carlton Fields
Industry: Lawyers & Lobbyists
Home: Tampa, FL

 

Political Contributions:
Bush Gubernatorial Races: 
 $0
Republican Hard Money: 
$3,500
Republican Soft Money: 
$0
Democratic Hard Money: 
$0
Democratic Soft Money: 
$0
Federal PAC Hard Money:
$0
Total Contributions:
 $3,500
Soft Money from Employer:
$0
to Republicans:
$0
to Democrats:
$0
Though not a lawyer, Martinez heads lobby efforts of the Carlton Fields law firm. His recent federal lobby clients include Genentech and Whitehall Corp., which competes for Air Force and other aviation-maintenance contracts. His ’99 Florida lobby contracts include general contractor Batson-Cook Co., Hot-in-Place, Inc., which makes recycled highway pavement materials and P.G. Corbin Group, which has won contracts to issue Florida state bonds. Martinez became Florida’s first GOP governor in 20 years in ’87. During his administration, then-Vice President Bush headed the South Florida Drug Task Force. After Bush became president, he appointed Martinez as his drug czar in ’91. An irony of these anti-drug posts is that both President Bush and Martinez received large campaign contributions in the late ‘80s from Leonel Martinez (no relation to this Pioneer), who was arrested in ’89 and later convicted for importing 300 kilos of cocaine. A highlight of Robert Martinez’s administration was his strict enforcement of Dade County anti-obscenity laws, which he invoked to go after rap artists 2 Live Crew. 


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