We can't even get a Cheney Energy Task Force list after 3 years of going through the Courts. Yet the media allows without comment the Bush ad and planted stories selling Kerry as a tool of Lobbyists. Well at least the ABCNote thought the Kerry release was a political 10 strike by Kerry against the GOP.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20040422/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_lobbyistsKerry Releases List of Lobbyist Meetings
Thu Apr 22, 9:01 AM ET
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who has criticized President Bush for setting policy after meeting in private with business leaders, has had nearly 200 meetings with registered lobbyists since 1989.
Nearly one-fourth of the meetings were with lobbyists for unions or other groups representing workers, Kerry's campaign said Wednesday after releasing a list of the meetings. Powerful business group advocates, including representatives of Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Cisco, were among those Kerry met.
Members of Congress routinely meet with lobbyists. Campaign officials said from 1989 to February of this year is the only period for which they have Kerry's schedule.
"We believe that it's the most comprehensive list of lobbyist meetings that we know of that any U.S. Senate office has produced," the Kerry campaign said in a statement. <snip>
Kerry campaign aides contrasted his disclosure with that of the Bush administration, which went to court to avoid disclosing meetings it held during formulation of an energy policy.
"Now it's the Bush administration's turn to release the list of oil company lobbyists in (Vice President Dick) Cheney's secret energy task force that rewrote our energy policy," Kerry spokesman Chad Clanton said.
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