Articles with lobbyists Tag
Brave Reporter Challenges Romney Deceit
By James Huang (Tech Admin) on Jan 7, 2012
Can/should a reporter call a candidate on semantic nonsense? Watch this video--in its entirety—and see reporter be reprimanded by Romney press secretary for sticking to his guns. Will this reporter keep his job? Stay tuned.
The Blue Dogs: Best Friends of Big Business
By David V. Johnson on Jul 29, 2009
[Updates below – Ed.]
As the Obama administration attempts to overhaul the nation’s health care, energy, and financial sectors, it faces the growing leverage of the Blue Dog Coalition—the conservative, fifty-two-member faction of the House’s Democratic caucus—to moderate, or obstruct, its...
Opinions to the Highest Bidder
By David V. Johnson on Jul 17, 2009
The American Conservative Union describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization” devoted to, among other conservative ideals, “a market economy.” For the ACU, it seems, everything should be determined by market...
In Defense of Lobbyists
By David V. Johnson on Jul 6, 2009
In the days after the November election, Obama’s advisers announced “the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.” These rules included a ban on lobbyists joining the new administration.
Why would political ethics demand such a prohibition? According...
The Charity of Lobbyists
By David V. Johnson on Jun 8, 2009
USA Today published a thorough investigation of the donations lobbyists pour into the favorite non-profits of Congressmen to gain influence and buy face time at charity events. Only since 2007, when congressional ethics rules were changed, has such beneficence had to be reported. The article shows that the...
Ownership Society
By David V. Johnson on May 3, 2009
Last Thursday, April 30, there was a flood of stories that the evening news and the next morning’s papers had to cover: swine flu, Souter’s retirement from the Supreme Court, and the Chrysler bankruptcy, for starters. But the story with perhaps the largest public import somehow managed to escape...
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