Newtown to seek election to the open congressional seat in Connecticut's 5th congressional district, which was being vacated by John G. Rowland, who was running for governor. Moffett's opponent, Waterbury alderman Gary Franks claimed that Moffett was far too liberal to represent conservative 5th district voters, and Franks won the election. In 2004 he broke with Ralph Nader regarding his independent candidacy for president. Moffett was among those who coordinated a national effort on behalf of the Democrats to deny votes and ballot access to the Nader campaign. He also recently criticized the independent campaign of Joe Lieberman. Subsequent career After serving in Congress, Moffett worked as a news anchor, producer and investigative journalist, and spent nearly a decade as a syndicated statewide columnist. In 1999, Moffett was nominated by President Clinton to be U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (although he had unanimous Senate backing, he ultimately did not become ambassador because the process had taken almost a year). Moffett worked at Monsanto as an international lobbyist from 1998-2000. Moffett is now a Washington consultant, and Chairman of The Moffett Group, representing for-profit and nonprofit entities, including large renewable energy developers and several foreign governments. In 2007, he joined with former Louisiana Congressman Bob Livingston and well-known consultant Tony Podesta to form the PLM Group, which represented the government of Egypt for 4 years. In 2014, Moffett joined the law firm of Mayer Brown as a consultant. In 2020, Moffett joined Washington, D.C. lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs as co-chairman. In June 2021, it was reported that Moffett registered as a foreign agent lobbying on behalf of Hikvision, a Chinese state-owned video surveillance manufacturer. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224554/http://www.stennis.gov/Congressional+Bios/anthonymoffett.htm The Moffett Group See also List of Arab and Middle-Eastern Americans in the United States Congress References |- |- 1944 births American lobbyists American politicians of Lebanese descent Boston College alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut Living people Syracuse University alumni Politicians from Holyoke, Massachusetts Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation Members of Congress who became lobbyists