As Barack Obama and John McCain heap unending criticism on lobbyists in their race for the White House, an association representing the public policy advocates is trying to remind everyone that lobbyists are people too.
“What I have trouble with is the hypocritical nature of these comments,” said lobbyists’ lobbyist Brian Pallasch. “Both candidates have worked with lobbyists, recognize the value of their input, received legal campaign contributions from lobbyists, and yet never hesitate to throw us to the wolves when it behooves them to do so.”
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Nice one– incise and concise.
Actually, *I* have trouble with our candidates’ hypocritical comments on lobbyists as well. Just not for quite the same reason as the poor little rich boys cited above.
I can’t wait until lobbyists’ lobbyists grow successful enough that we can start to be lobbied by lobbyists’s lobbyists’ lobbyists.
yes, I feel their pain. We should possibly have a national holiday just to remember how lobbyists cause us to have such effective representation.
On National Lobbyist Day we could give lobbyists an opportunity to meet the public, tell us who they work for and who they lobby and what wonderful things they’ve done for us in the past year.
I think it would be very helpful for us all.
What Quin said.