08-11-2008, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by sandgk
Lack of association was not my claim. Your linked article claimed "on '08 Obama Payroll."
Show me the lobbyist payroll for Obama - as The Hill depicted in it's headline.
Put up, or shut up.
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Buffy Wicks will serve as Missouri State Director for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign and will be based in St. Louis, the Obama camp announced Thursday.
Wicks most recently served as Obama's deputy field director in Texas and the field director in California. Before joining Obama's campaign, she headed campaigns for affordable health care and higher wages for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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Saint Louis Business Journal
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No Ban on Lobbyists as Advisers for Obama
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has made a big deal about the fact that his campaign doesn't accept political donations from Washington lobbyists, and recently declared that "they won't run my White House, and they won't set the agenda in Washington." But that ban doesn't extend to seeking their endorsements, or their advice.
Daniel Shapiro, one of Obama's foreign policy advisers on the Middle East, registered to lobby for several corporate clients in the last year, since leaving the office of Rep. Bill Nelson (D-Fla). Shapiro, who worked during the 1990s for President Bill Clinton's National Security Council, counts some of America's biggest corporate names among his clients, including beermaker Anheuser-Busch, carmaker Daimler Chrysler, the American Petroleum Institute and Freddie Mac.
Obama also recently secured the endorsement of former South Carolina governor Jim Hodges, who now runs a lobbying firm, the Hodges Consulting Group, and is registered himself as a federal lobbyist for Hillenbrand Partners, a Chicago-based company that does business with the Federal Home Loan Bank, according to U.S. Senate lobbying disclosure records. Hodges reported receiving $12,000 from the client in the first half of 2007, the records show. Hodges also signed on as a national co-chair of Obama's campaign and is advising Obama on his southern political strategy.
A Post review of Obama's payroll, advisers and endorsements found several other Washington lobbyists. Obama staffer Buffy Wicks was registered in 2007 to lobby for the United Food and Commercial Workers union, while two fellow campaign aides were registered in 2006 to lobby for the Democratic-leaning Center for American Progress.
Obama's early state coordinator, Steve Hildebrand was registered since 2005 to represent an environmental firm but filed a report terminating his lobbying registration around the time he joined the campaign last January.
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Washington Post
A state director of a campaign is most certainly on the payroll
Steve Hildebrand is the Deputy Campaign Manager and at one time was lobbyist.
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Jeffery Berman, Sen. Barack Obama’s director of delegate selection.
Many campaign operatives make a career of politics, but delegate counters tend to be an exception. They’re typically lawyers by training, for one. And their skills are in demand only every four years. Berman, despite the Obama campaign’s anti-lobbyist stance, has spent most non-campaign time at the Washington law and lobbying firm Winston and Strawn, where he specialized in telecommunications. His main lobbying client, according to federal filings, was the in-flight telecommunications firm Aircell.
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Politico
Last edited by DaytonBuck; 08-11-2008 at 10:48 PM.
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