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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:01 PM
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ROF! Lobbyists are hacked off at campaigns they can't control. "Send my check back". (Politico)
"Five lobbyists have been shown the door of McCain’s Virginia campaign headquarters in the past week, including Tom Loeffler, who is largely credited with keeping the senator’s primary campaign financially afloat long enough to capture the Republican presidential nomination."



Lobbyists: This is our thanks?
By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 5/21/08


(...)

“McCain’s self-righteous has caught up with him. Now he’s got himself in a jam,” said another Republican lobbyist who asked to remain anonymous because he is a campaign volunteer. “He’s got to change the subject back to economic growth and taxation and the war on terror.”

And there’s this thought from another McCain supporter: “I find it a little offensive. It was good enough to get my $2,300 donation. If we’re not good enough, then send my check back. It pisses me off.”

Republican lobbyists aren’t the only ones feeling the heat.

In his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama is refusing donations from federally registered lobbyists and excluding them from his official campaign staff. (They can still be advisers and volunteers, and their spouses’ checks are certainly welcome.)

The Illinois senator’s lobbyist backers adapted to those rules months ago. But they’re creating some angst today for advocates who banked on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign.

With it now sputtering, those lobbyists are scrambling to figure out how to ingratiate themselves with the Obama team other than with the classic political pivot: issuing a big donation check.

“The whole anti-lobbyist shtick is disingenuous and annoying on both sides,” said one lobbyist.



more at link:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10497.html
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:02 PM
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1. lol "annoying and disingenous on both sides"
:rofl: GOOD! Great work Obama!
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:20 PM
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4. “The whole anti-lobbyist shtick ." LOL!
Loving it. :-)
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 12:56 AM
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14. There you go. It's as telling as can be. It's shtick. Just shtick.
Seems more like shit to me.

I hope these assholes get locked out of the action for a LONG LONG LONG LONG time.

It's time for somebody else to move up to the front of the line.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:06 PM
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2. wow, this is a lobbyist's nightmare
McCain as in McCain-Feingold vs. Obama reinventing campaign financing beyond what seemed possible 4 years ago. Poor things - how can they do their jobs?
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:21 PM
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5. Ironic that McCain would cripple his own campaign with his own law.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:19 PM
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3.  "...(a) Republican lobbyist who asked to remain anonymous because he is a campaign volunteer"?
Edited on Wed May-21-08 10:23 PM by rocknation
Yummy!

:P
rocknation
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:28 PM
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6. ROFL those lobbyists are scrambling to figure out how to ingratiate themselves with the Obama team
those lobbyists are scrambling to figure out how to ingratiate themselves with the Obama team other than with the classic political pivot: issuing a big donation check.


I love that line LOL.... Lobbyists take your money elsewhere...
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:31 PM
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7. won't take our money - does not compute! does not compute! nt
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:51 PM
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9. ROFLMBO -Oh yes we can!!!
We don't need no stinking lobbyists crowding out our voices, thank you so very much!
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:31 PM
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8. This is friggin HILLarious!
They couldn't buy Obama - but they didn't care because they knew they COULD buy Hillary. Perhaps that's why she's still in this.. the Lobbiest only have one candidate available for purchase for the first time ever - and that candidate is looking less & less likely to be a nominee.

Thank God.. maybe things will change in Washington a bit. And for those who thought Obama was no different from Hillary on the lobbiest front - why are they so suddenly concerned now? Sure - he'll take a lobbiests spouse's money - but he makes it very clear they get nothing in return. HA HA HA!
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DerekJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:55 PM
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10. Kick .. MWAHAHAHAHAHA
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:57 PM
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11. :-) ...
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:58 PM
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12. Um, canvassing and phonebanking?
This scrub would looooove to knock some doors with a lobbyist. lol.

I think it's funny these people don't know how to get into a campaign without the back door.

Pathetic.

Work like the rest of us, assholes.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 11:01 PM
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13. "You can't do this to me! I made you! I own you! Wait - what are you do - stop! Stop! Aiiieeeee!""
Edited on Wed May-21-08 11:02 PM by anigbrowl
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