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mises
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 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:03 am Post subject: Obama, who 'excluded lobbyists', has appointed 50 |
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama_-who-_excluded-lobbyists__-has-appointed-50-89531802.html
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President Obama used his recess-appointment power to place four former federal lobbyists -- representing defense contractors and the agri-chemical industry among others -- in top policy jobs. Obama's maneuver dodges a Senate floor debate and sweeps under the rug an inauspicious milestone: The appointment of the 50th lobbyist to a policymaking job by a president who claims he's "excluded" them. [Click here for our list of known lobbyists in policymaking administration jobs.]
Isi Siddiqui enters the Obama administration from CropLife America, the D.C.-based lobby for the companies who make and sell agricultural pesticides and herbicides. Siddiqui was a registered lobbyist from 2001 to 2004, and since then he has served as the "vice president for science and regulatory affairs." Now, thanks to the recess appointment, he is the top agriculture official at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Erik Hirschhorn, appointed to the Commerce Department, was a registered lobbyist at the K Street firm Winston & Strawn, where his clients included military-industrial titan Lockheed Martin and fertilizer giant Sun Chemicals.
Michael Punke, another recess appointee, will head off to Geneva to represent the United States before the World Trade Organization. Previously, at Mayer Brown, he represented agricultural interests and Time Warner. In 2007 and 2008, Punke ran his own boutique lobbying shop.
Jacqueline Barrien, going to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on a recess appointment, was registered in 2005 as a Washington lobbyist for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
These four former lobbyists were among Obama's 15 recess appointments, which allow the president to overcome Senate holds and appoint officials without a confirmation vote. |
Obama, Obama.. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| D.C. = One big happy family. |
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The Happy Warrior
Joined: 10 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course he promoted lobbyists. What is the lion's share of the DC law community? Lobbyists. Its not the actions that offend me, its the absurd promise. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Of course he promoted lobbyists. What is the lion's share of the DC law community? Lobbyists. Its not the actions that offend me, its the absurd promise. |
I am flabbergasted that anyone even believed those promises in the first place. Then everyone acts shocked when he didn't keep them.  |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| The Happy Warrior wrote: |
| Of course he promoted lobbyists. What is the lion's share of the DC law community? Lobbyists. Its not the actions that offend me, its the absurd promise. |
I am flabbergasted that anyone even believed those promises in the first place. Then everyone acts shocked when he didn't keep them. |
Almost as flabbergasted as seeing so-called "conservatives" now believing all the lies they hear from Glenn Beck and GOP candidates (promising alternatives to Obama, when it's as obvious as the sky is blue that they're paid off by the exact same special interest groups), who have now completely hi-jacked the Tea Party movement and turned it into a full-on Republican front. People just never learn, it's like they enjoy being scammed and buying into big lies. |
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