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Bring Back the Lobbyists

Category: David V. Johnson, lobbyists | Leave a Comment

by David V. Johnson
Last November, President-elect Obama declared he wouldn’t appoint lobbyists to his administration, because he sought to curtail the influence of “special interests” and “stop the revolving door” between big business and political power.  His advisers ballyhooed the lobbyist ban as part of “the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any [...]