Retiring GOP lawmaker sets up lobbying firm before leaving office

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Retiring Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) is raising eyebrows after launching a new lobbying firm before she officially leaves office, McClatchy reports.

The firm, LJ Strategies LLC, is already registered with the state of Kansas in a move ethics watchdogs say is legal, though unusual.

“This is an egregious abuse of the revolving door,” Craig Holman, the lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group which advocates for stricter ethics rules, told McClatchy.

“To put up a lobbying shingle while you’re still serving — maybe it’s happened before — but it’s very unusual and unfortunate because it plays into the public perception that the interests of the public aren’t first and foremost,” said Meredith McGehee, executive director of the nonpartisan ethics reform group Issue One.

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/420356-retiring-gop-lawmaker-sets-up-lobbying-firm-before

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1. But..he promised a ban on lobbying for 5 years.

#MAGA 🤔