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Thread #116042   Message #2492426
Posted By: CarolC
12-Nov-08 - 11:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Recipe for disaster?
Subject: RE: BS: Recipe for disaster?
I think the big problem is when people who have worked on Capital Hill become lobbyists and take jobs at lobbying firms. I think those are the ones that Obama's new rules are aimed at. For instance, after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Rikki Ott, who had previously been a fisherman in Alaska, and whose fishing business was destroyed by the oil spill, became a lobbyist on behalf of the towns in Alaska that were affected and also for people with environmental concerns about the oil industry. While she would be called a lobbyist, she wouldn't be one of the people those rules are aimed at, because she wouldn't have the kind of incestuous relationship with the government that the K Street lobbyists have.