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...cuts and too unsteady about important principles. That's why the Bush campaign rushed a Web ad comparing Kerry's vows to take on the special interests with his record as the Senate's leading recipient of special-interest money. Bush takes a far greater amount of such lobbyist money, Federal Election Commission records show, but proving Kerry's hypocrisy was worth exposing Bush's cozy relationship with corporate special pleaders...
...wily combination of satire and facts to communicate through grass-roots organizations and the Internet. The campaign aims to alert the public to the fact that Bush is, in fact, not the ordinary, down-to-earth guy he purports to be. Instead, they claim, he is a power-hungry, lobbyist-pleasing politician. Their intriguing tactics are reminiscent of Jonathan Swift. By pushing for the deregulation of elections, defending big business and encouraging wealthy individuals to manipulate government policy through generous campaign contributions, Billionaires for Bush makes a strong, potently ironic case against Bush as he attempts reelection...
...rest and have time to attend his son Paul's hockey match that night. But at a half-hour meeting at noon at a Burlington law firm, Dean informed Trippi that he would bring on Roy Neel, a longtime aide to former Vice President Al Gore and a telecommunications lobbyist who had served as White House deputy chief of staff in the Clinton Administration. Dean wanted and expected Trippi to accept the demotion and stay on as a senior adviser, but the aide surprised the Governor by bowing out, and later told MSNBC in an tearful interview that the campaign...
Second, I’d close the revolving door between lobbyist shops and top government jobs. Just recently we’ve seen administration officials like former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe M. Allbaugh moving into the private sector to set up lobbying shops and profit from their insider connections. At the same time, President Bush has appointed top lobbyists to government positions where they are supposed to regulate their former clients. I’d close this revolving door by barring former top officials from lobbying the government for five years, and stopping lobbyists from taking high-level...
Surprisingly, United's decision to return to the federal trough is drawing flak within the industry. In a rare display of intra-airline bickering, Leo Mullin, the head of Delta Airlines and the industry's key lobbyist for government assistance since 9/11, said, "The ATSB should be limited to overseeing the outstanding loans. Then it should go out of business." Added Mullin, whose carrier did not apply to the ATSB for money: "Let the marketplace work." That's easy for him to say, since Delta will probably survive. Some other airlines flying today will...