Patrick O’Connor: Influential GOP lobbyist joins Altria Bruce Gates, an influential Republican lobbyist with close ties to House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), is leaving Washington Council Ernst & Young, the firm he helped found in 1996, to work in the Washington office of the newly reconstituted Altria, according …

Man in Anti-Smoking Ads Still Smokes “He’s the poster boy for the state’s new anti-smoking campaign. But the 48-year-old Skip Legault is still smoking – despite an amputated leg, two heart attacks and a stroke.”