ABC's The Note links today to NYPost article: "Lobbyists Love Hillary"

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/155592/print/

LOBBYI$TS LOVE HILLARY
By GEOFF EARLE

May 25, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took more campaign cash from well-heeled lobbyists this year than any lawmaker except one, an analysis of Washington's influence industry reveals.

Clinton raked in $418,000 from lobbyists this year, including $68,000 from political-action committees that lobbyist firms set up to cut big checks to political campaigns.

The only lawmaker who raised more from lobbyists was Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who faces one of the toughest re-election fights in the country.

The congressional watchdog group Public Citizen researched the lobbyist donations.

Clinton is among an elite group of just 18 lawmakers who have raised more than $500,000 from lobbyists during their careers.

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1. NYPost is a Right Wing Rag

Funny how they never pointed out how Bush was so compromised by lobbyists from the second he ran for office.

[flpoljunkie]

2. Public Citizen, however, is not a "right wing rag."

[papau]

3. But "lobbyist" money means PAC contribs from corporations - so Dems

should demand corporate political contributions go only to the GOP?

Interesting thought.

When was the last time a major state senator - say from Cal or New York - was not in the top 20 of those recieving corporate pac money?

[flpoljunkie]

4. If we want to "take back our country" we need to do away with lobbyists'

contributions altogether, and demand public campaign financing--so that they will be beholden to us, not the special interests. It is the sytem that is rotten, and we must change it, if we are to take back our democracy from the "money changers" in Washington, D.C.

[papau]

5. I agree - and public financing at the state level may be coming in a few

states.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. Press Release, PC's Statement, and Full Report here

http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1376

Can click on the links at that page. The report is 103 pages.

[zann725]

6. Not THIS DEMOCRATIC American.

I can understand where BIG money backers would prefer her. No comment.