Obama takes six figures from Abramoff firm »
Posted By pc25 6 months ago in NewsBarack Obama has pledged to end the influence of lobbyists, but that doesn't keep him from fundraising at the offices of one of the most notoriously corrupt lobbyists in years. Newsday reported over the weekend that Obama took about $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig employees at their Miami offices last October.
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libsRfunny6 months ago
"However, among the broad spectrum of lobbyists and legal firms, Hillary has taken in $15.7 million and Obama $13.8 million. McCain comes in last at $4.2 million."
Whoaaaaaaaaa!!! Those are some pretty big digits there for the Dems. No wonder McCain is behind on fundraising.
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Aidenag6 months ago
McCain also recieved six figures from this firm. Though i really wouldn't put much into the fact either of them got money from them... It's a huge firm with 1700 lawyers, 19 locations, And is the 16th largest law firm by revenue in the world, 8th largest in the US.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/12/mccain...
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libsRfunny6 months ago
yeah, we saw your post before. Turns out Obama didn't get much less than McCain, and you railed McCain for it. Yet, this is the most damning of all ...
"However, among the broad spectrum of lobbyists and legal firms, Hillary has taken in $15.7 million and Obama $13.8 million. McCain comes in last at $4.2 million."
Nearly $10 million more than McCain. Any wonder Obama has more cash? Needless to say, every time I see a self righteous Obama article excoriating McCain for lobbyist ties and Obama pretending he has nothing to do with lobbyists - even though several work on his campaign and he has a long history of accepting lobbyist funding - that figure will resurface.
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newbie04206 months ago
"McCain also recieved six figures from this firm."
Wow, so because McCain did it it's ok for Obama, you know the guy who preaches CHANGE in Washington all the time?
I've been saying he's a politician like the rest of them the whole time, looks like I was right, too bad you can't admit it.
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fsev416 months ago
This is primarily a law firm.Obama and Clinton are lawyers. If they're trying to raise money why wouldn't they go to law firms. They know where the money is.
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ybdogsct6 months ago
I wonder why PC25 chose not to post the original Newsday article. Maybe, this is why.
LOL.
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/print...
"To link an attorney there to the illegal actions of Jack Abramoff simply because they worked at the same firm is ridiculous.
The attorneys held fundraisers for not only Obama, but also for McCain and Clinton. McCain, who chaired the Senate probe of Abramoff, held two events, one in the firm's New York office, another in Miami. McCain raised $138,000.
Unlike McCain and Clinton, Obama accepts money from advocates but not lobbyists. The Center for Responsive Politics said lobbyists gave McCain $590,952 and Obama $115,163, but Obama returns lobbyist funds.
Obama stated he doesn't accept money from 'currently registered federal lobbyists, registered foreign agents, PACs, or minors.' His filings show he was true to his word."
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nostalgia6 months ago
You must have missed this:
The Boston Globe: Obama and lobbyists 2007:
PACs and lobbyists aided Obama's rise
Using campaign appearances, e-mails, and Iowa TV ads, Sen Obama has repeatedly reminded voters that his presidential campaign does not accept contributions from lobbyists or political action committees, casting his decision as a noble departure from the ways of Washington.
Behind Obama's campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama's campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant.
Though Obama has returned thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from registered federal lobbyists since he declared his candidacy in Feb, his presidential campaign has maintained ties with lobbyists & lobbying firms to help raise some of the $58.9 million he collected through the first 6 months of 2007.
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pc256 months ago
the newsday link is there for all to see........second of all he accepted the money didn't he...........and for someone who is accusing McCain it is hypocrisy at best because it is politics as usual and not change you can believe in........It does kind of leave open many questions and make one start to question what is his actual relationship with Rezko and how dirty is it..........
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ybdogsct6 months ago
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/05/30/...
"McCain has more lobbyists working on his campaign staff than any other candidate."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/136321
"Doug Goodyear, McCain's selection for GOP Convention Chair, is CEO of DCI Group, which earned $3 million lobbying for ExxonMobil and GM.
DCI was paid $348,000 to represent Burma's military junta, which was condemned by the State Dept. for its human-rights record and remains in power today. His firm created a PR campaign to burnish the junta's image, denouncing 'falsehoods' by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.
Goodyear's firm also pioneered 527 groups, precisely the kind of operations that McCain, in his battle for campaign-finance reform, has denounced.
Ironically, Goodyear was chosen for the post after the McCain campaign nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis."
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CHAM6 months ago
ybdogsct
Right on.
And you didn't even have to mention that McCain was a living breathing member, actually was one of the Keating Five, the group that bilked the American public of over a Billion dollars. Robbed retirees and investors of their life savings and etc.
Keating is the one who slipped hundreds of thousands of dollars to McCain, his wife, and her father.
The funny thing is McCain got real hot when questioned by a reporter, asked the reporter if he was stupid, that the money was given to his wife and therefore didn't count against him! Oh the Chutzpa of it all.
Yeah - good ole boy McCain is a saint - NOT!
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Nixie6 months ago
No he's right, it is "Change you can believe in". What he didn't specify was that it is change in the millions and billions...quarters, dimes, nickles...
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cushi6 months ago
Doesn't matter to me because it shows so glaringly who is in the back pockets of the lobbyists to the greatest extent, and it isn't Barack. It also shows that neither of the other candidates have made any effort to change the status quo; just him.
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TheRealizer6 months ago
Innocent children should not be in politics, if he can't cover his tracks he should quit. Every professional politician is for sale, some are just brighter than others.
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TheRealizer6 months ago
Innocent children should not be in politics, if he can't cover his tracks he should quit. Every professional politician is for sale, some are just brighter than others.
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TheRealizer6 months ago
Innocent children should not be in politics, if he can't cover his tracks he should quit. Every professional politician is for sale, some are just brighter than others.
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pc256 months ago
it's what happens when the page locks up and you don't know whats going on and then you click the submit button again....the system does get a little quirky at times
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pc256 months ago
it's what happens when the page locks up and you don't know whats going on and then you click the submit button again....the system does get a little quirky at times
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alakazam6 months ago
I would like to see this investigated.
Make no mistake Ladies and Gentlemen...Alakazam loves America.
Can we please elect a person of true Presidential Nature.
Is there a truly "GREAT" American that actually can unite us?
I will not vote for McCain or Hillary...Period!
Can we please have some Integrity back in Politics?
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