The practice of leaving the Senate to become a lobbyist is all to common: “It used to be that lawmakers were coy about any ideas they had about heading for K Street, waiting until their terms ended before announcing they were beginning a more lucrative career,” Politico’s Kenneth Vogel opines. Not anymore. Florida Sen. Mel […]
There has been a lot of talk today about a WSJ article talking about the totally insane rise of overseas trips taken by members of Congress on the taxpayers dime. If you read Ed at Hot Air you can quickly see where the problem is: Democrats ran on the Culture of Corruption charge in 2006 […]
And by home, I of course mean lobbying: Charles R. Black Jr., a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is returning to his former profession: lobbying. Mr. Black will go back to his former lobbying firm, BKSH and Associates, and will resume his old title of chairman. The firm, a subsidiary of WPP Group, […]
Richard Hohlt is one of Washington Mutual’s lobbyists, receiving close to $40,000 in the first half of 2007. He is also a major Republican fundraiser and then there is this little gem: Hohlt is also the leader of a group of Washington, DC insiders called the “Off the Record Club” and is known as an […]
Howie gives us the details of the love Sarah Palin has with pork: In fact, Palin has always been a pork-crazed maniac, the kind of straw man McCain loves to bash on the stump. This year Alaska received nearly $100 million more In pork than any other state ($379,669,715). According to the Senate Lobbying Disclosure […]
You end up getting burned: The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar. We will just file this under the GOP chapter of “profit trumping life”.
It looks like the Cunningham case is heating up and now going after Rep. Jerry Lewis even harder: A Washington lobbying firm at the center of a federal corruption probe failed to disclose at least $755,000 in income from 17 nonprofit organizations and governmental entities, and $635,000 from 18 other clients between 1998 and 2005, […]
One question. Is there anyone in the Bush administration that isn’t under investigation or should be? Dr. Lester M. Crawford, the former commissioner of food and drugs, is under criminal investigation by a federal grand jury over accusations of financial improprieties and false statements to Congress, his lawyer said Friday. The lawyer, Barbara Van Gelder, […]
To keep up on Boehner even more, here is another article tying his office to Jack Abramoff: A White House aide who was once chief of staff to House Majority Leader John Boehner helped plan a 1996 trip to the Northern Mariana Islands that was organized by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff, billing records from Abramoff’s […]
Last week after the Abramoff story exploded, the White House went into a defensive mode: On Wednesday, McClellan called Abramoff’s actions “outrageous†and reiterated to reporters that Bush was not friends with the lobbyist and does not recall ever meeting himâ€â€Âthough he said it was possible that Bush met Abramoff at a fund-raising function or […]