{"id":670,"date":"2005-06-28T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/06\/28\/dont_let_the_do\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:01:06","slug":"dont_let_the_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/06\/28\/dont_let_the_do\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Let the Door Hit You On Your Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Stephen D. Haner, a newspaperman-turned-political operative-turned-lobbyist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031783533165&#038;path=%21news&#038;s=1045855934842 \">is leaving the Virginia Chamber of Commerce<\/a> to open his own public-affairs shop.<br \/>\nHaner, 50, steps down July 31 as the organization&#8217;s vice president for public policy to &#8220;establish a consulting firm to represent clients on state government affairs and public-relations projects,&#8221; the chamber said in a written statement yesterday.<br \/>\n&#8220;It goes without saying he will be missed,&#8221; Hugh D. Keogh, the chamber of commerce&#8217;s president and chief executive officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t bet on it.  There are plenty of moderate Republican businessmen who think Haner\u2019s stewardship was a disaster for the Chamber, which is why other ad hoc groups have been forming to push for a more responsible approach to state spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen D. Haner, a newspaperman-turned-political operative-turned-lobbyist, is leaving the Virginia Chamber of Commerce to open his own public-affairs shop. Haner, 50, steps down July 31 as the organization&#8217;s vice president for public policy to &#8220;establish a consulting firm to represent clients on state government affairs and public-relations projects,&#8221; the chamber said in a written statement&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/06\/28\/dont_let_the_do\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}