Lobbyists in the White House?

[piece-itpete]

Of course not.

Wait a doggone minute here:

Snippetty snip snip snip:

"....

Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, a review of campaign donations and White House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble making themselves heard. Many of the president’s biggest donors, while not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House, while others performed essentially the same function on their visits.

More broadly, the review showed that those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others. Among donors who gave $30,000 or less, about 20 percent visited the White House, according to a New York Times analysis that matched names in the visitor logs with donor records. But among those who donated $100,000 or more, the figure rises to about 75 percent. Approximately two-thirds of the president’s top fund-raisers in the 2008 campaign visited the White House at least once, some of them numerous times.

......."


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us...pagewanted=all

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Yeah, so?

I'm still not voting for Mitt Romney.

[mezz]

This sleazy admin will go right ahead and claim that they have very little to do with lobbysts and the big donors they work with just like they did when Hillary Rosen melted down on in front of the entire nation... when her 35 or so visits exceeded visits by most of his cabinet members.

[mezz]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Yeah, so?

I'm still not voting for Mitt Romney.

You`re gonna love the moderate Mitt Romney... and I`m still not convinced that you won`t be bragging that you voted for him sometime next year.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Of course not.

Wait a doggone minute here:

Snippetty snip snip snip:

"....

Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, a review of campaign donations and White House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble making themselves heard. Many of the president’s biggest donors, while not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House, while others performed essentially the same function on their visits.

More broadly, the review showed that those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others. Among donors who gave $30,000 or less, about 20 percent visited the White House, according to a New York Times analysis that matched names in the visitor logs with donor records. But among those who donated $100,000 or more, the figure rises to about 75 percent. Approximately two-thirds of the president’s top fund-raisers in the 2008 campaign visited the White House at least once, some of them numerous times.

......."


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us...pagewanted=all

Pete

????????? Point????????

[piece-itpete]

No change my friend.

Pete

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

No change my friend.

Pete

oh, OK got it

why would you think there would be?

a subtle shift is all we can expect in a country as fully developed as the USA and that is what we got.

[piece-itpete]

I recall the tune being just a wee bit different not that long ago

Pete

[finnbow]

You can't swing a dead cat in DC without hitting a lobbyist. FWIW, as big as a scoundrels as we wish to paint them, they're exercising their rights to petition the government. Lobbyists aren't the problem. The problem is politicians who allow lobbyists undue influence. The poster child of bad lobbyist/politician relationships was Jack Abramoff (a Republican, BTW).

[piece-itpete]

They go where the money is.

Pete