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It’s Hard to Get Away — From Lobbyists & Their Clients

By Kent Cooper
Posted July 10, 2013 at 4:58pm

Even on vacation it’s hard to get away from lobbyists and their clients, especially if you are taking the ferry from Woods Hole, Mass., to Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket Island.


Jeffrey Pike
, founder of Pike Associates, lobbies for the 
Woods Hole Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
. Before coming to Washington, D.C., Pike was an owner and operator of his own commercial fishing vessel out of Chatham, Mass. From 1979 to 1995, he worked for the House of Representatives, and he left as chief of staff for the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

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