VA Gov. Spanberger Appoints Qatari Lobbyists To Serve on George Mason U. Board
“The appointments are a sharp departure from the ‘moderate’ image Spanberger presented to the public during the campaign.”
Abigail Spanberger has been in office for just a few days, and she is already trying to out-left Zohran Mamdani.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
‘Moderate’ Abigail Spanberger Appoints Two Qatari Lobbyists To Serve on George Mason University Board
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) has appointed two Qatari lobbyists to serve on George Mason University’s board of visitors, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.
Spanberger, who was sworn into office on Saturday, tapped former Reps. James Moran (D., Va.) and Tom Davis (R., Va.) to serve on George Mason’s 16-person board of visitors, which advises the school on “policy-making and oversight.” After retiring from Congress in 2015, Moran launched Moran Global Strategies, which registered as a foreign agent of the Qatari embassy in April 2023. Davis, who resigned from Congress in 2008, is a lobbyist at Holland & Knight, which subcontracts with Moran’s firm on its Qatari lobbying contract.
Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf monarchy that harbors Hamas, has paid Moran’s firm $2.3 million through August 2025 to advance “bilateral relations” with the United States, according to foreign agent disclosures. Moran Global Strategies has, in turn, paid Holland & Knight $35,000 per month for its lobbying services. Davis is listed as Moran’s “principal point of contact” in the Qatari lobbying contract, records show.
The appointments are a sharp departure from the “moderate” image Spanberger presented to the public during the campaign.
Moran, who served 24 years in the House, has lobbied his former colleagues on behalf of Qatar on educational issues, according to lobbying disclosures. In July, he met with two members of the House Education and Workforce Committee prior to a hearing on “antisemitism in higher education,” disclosures show. Moran was spotted in the audience at the hearing, seated behind Georgetown University president Robert Groves, Jewish Insider reported.
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the ‘moderate’ image Spanberger presented to the public during the campaign
Oh, please. If you saw a “moderate” image from her campaign, you really weren’t paying attention.
Also, I would think it’s against the mission or charter of the school to have foreign agents appointed to the board.
if you thought she was a moderate you are pretending that you got fooled by her
her people know shes not a moderate….voters know how the game is played
only djt was honest and forthright about maga
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