[lbo-talk] Luntz banned from Rep retreat

[Doug Henwood]

[wonder if it might have something to do with Luntz's misleading 
polling on the Contract, for which he was censured by AAPOR - someone 
forwarded this to the AAPOR list with the omission below]

    Pollster Booted From Retreat - GOP Event Opens Thursday

    By Ben Pershing, Roll Call Staff

    February 8, 2006

    The ascent last week of Rep.  John Boehner (R-Ohio) to the

    Majority Leader post has put the agenda for the upcoming House GOP

    retreat somewhat in flux, but one thing is certain:  Frank Luntz

    won't be there.

    The omnipresent Republican pollster was uninvited from the retreat

    - scheduled for this Thursday through Saturday in Cambridge, Md. -

    after Boehner adamantly told his colleagues at his first

    leadership meeting last Friday that he didn't want Luntz there.

    "Boehner said he wasn't going if Luntz was going," said a

    leadership source.

    [...]

    It is not clear why Boehner would dislike Luntz's work enough to

    ban him from the retreat, though they do have a long history.  The

    two men both worked on developing the "Contract with America" for

    the House GOP in 1994...