Cheney's hunting host (Armstrong) lobbied White House

[ProSense]

Cheney's hunting host lobbied White House

Ranch owner who divulged accident earned $160,000 for work in 2004
By Aram Roston
NBC Investigative Unit
Updated: 6:07 p.m. ET Feb. 14, 2006

Katharine Armstrong, who's family owns the ranch where Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner, is a registered lobbyist who has been paid to lobby the White House, according to records.

Armstrong told NBC News in a telephone interview that she has never directly lobbied Cheney as far as she remembers.

"Never!" she said. And she says she does not remember directly lobbying the president himself either.

Snip...

Armstrong was paid $160,000 in 2004 by the powerful legal firm Baker Botts to lobby the White House, according to records she filed with the U.S. Senate as required by lobbying disclosure rules. The records indicate she was paid the money after she "communicated with the White House on behalf of Baker Botts clients."

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11349649

[Dhalgren]

1. If she "never" lobbied Cheney and she "never" lobbied Bush,

what the hell does it mean to "lobby" the WH? Looks like she owes somebody around $160,000; either that or she should be charged with fraud right along side Abramoff...