Luntz banned from Rep retreat
[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...