RedState
Despite his crusade against lobbyists, Barack Obama’s campaign isn’t entirely independent of them, notes Pejman Yousefzadeh. Obama still takes money from former lobbyists, unregistered lobbying firm partners, lobbyists registered with state governments and oil companies executives, Yousefzadeh writes. In fact, one of Obama’s vice presidential selection team members, Jim Johnson, is a lobbyist who has taken about $7 milllion in loans from Countrywide Financial, the bankrupt mortgage provider blamed for contributing to the subprime mortgage mess, Soren Dayton writes.
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