NAW's Jade West Quoted in Wall Street Journal article on Obama Plan for Business Tax Breaks

NAW's Jade West is respected around Capitol Hill as a powerful lobbyist who strives to protect the interests of small businesses. West, the senior vice president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW), Washington, D.C., was quoted ...
Sept. 8, 2010

NAW's Jade West is respected around Capitol Hill as a powerful lobbyist who strives to protect the interests of small businesses. West, the senior vice president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW), Washington, D.C., was quoted in this week in the Wall Street Journal in an article on the new Obama plan to allow businesses write off 100% of their new investment in plants and equipment through 2011. While West said she hopes the plan is something NAW can support, she says in the article that "the devil is in the details."

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.