Word: lobbyist
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Where Bush himself has recently shown poor judgment is in naming a privately paid Washington lobbyist and a public relations consultant to top campaign jobs without asking them to sever their ties to foreign companies and large U.S. firms. Both senior adviser Charles Black, a lobbyist, and deputy campaign manager James Lake, a p.r. man, have recused themselves from White House discussions of subjects that might affect their clients. The law does not require this of campaign workers since they are private, not public, employees. But, according to a Bush spokesman, both men remain on the payroll of their firms...
...President is putting his personal ambition above his vaunted code of ethics when he overlooks the fact that when lobbyists enter the inner sanctum of White House meetings -- and both Lake and Black meet weekly with the President -- their perceived value to clients increases. A lobbyist who sits in on White House meetings always gets his phone call returned; a consultant who hands out his card to business executives knows that it carries extra weight with potential clients when it is distributed at Bush-Quayle headquarters...
...push for] compliance could restrict the kind of material that is available and the manner of availability," says Jeff Hazlett, a Congressional lobbyist for the quick printing industry...
...civil rights groups said the bill is a justification for censorship. "It's not a civil rights bill. It's a censorship bill," said Karen Hudner, lobbyist for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...
Spousal conflict-of-interest charges are usually aimed against wives for a simple reason: few women hold high public office that could place their husbands in jeopardy. When Barbara Morris Lent, wife of New York Congressman Norman Lent, became a lobbyist for NYNEX, she sought assurance from the House ethics committee that her job would not interfere with his voting on communications legislation. When Debbie Dingell, a lobbyist for General Motors, married Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, she switched to an administrative position. "Fortunately," she says, "GM is large enough that I could change jobs...