change = Obama’s Transition Team Restricts Lobbyists’ Role

[spanone]

WASHINGTON — Turning to campaign promises in which he pledged sweeping ethics restrictions, President-elect Barack Obama will bar lobbyists from helping to pay the costs of his transition to power or working for it in any area in which they have represented clients in the last year, his transition team said Tuesday.

Mr. Obama’s aides indicated that they expected the rules to apply to his inauguration as well as the transition, but said they had yet to make a final decision on how the inauguration would be paid for.

John D. Podesta, a co-chairman of the Obama transition, called the restraints “the strictest, the most far-reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.”

“If someone has lobbied during the past 12 months, they’re prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied and will have to cease all lobbying activities during their work on the transition,” Mr. Podesta said, speaking to reporters in the first official briefing by the transition team.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/us/politics/12obama.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[uponit7771]

1. This is the third solution I've heard him be pragmatic about. There's no way he could've put...

...together and admin without lobbyist involved somehow but limiting their DIRECT involvement is a win win for his montra.

[ProSense]

2. The announcement is also

posted on his site: Obama Transition Announces Rules for Lobbyists in Transition