Biden Take Money from Lobbyists, Obama from Their Wives
Barack has made a point of saying he will not accept money from lobbyist. Guess what, Joe Biden is taking money from lobbyist:
collected over $200,000 from registered lobbyists in this year alone
Obama on the other hand is taking money form the lobbyists’ wives:
The campaign has no problem accepting money from the spouses of Washington lobbyists. A database search conducted for this column by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign-finance issues, found that more than 20 spouses of prominent Washington lobbyists have donated to the Obama campaign, including the wives of Dan Glickman, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America; Norman Brownstein, a prominent Denver-based lawyer who has lobbied for Oracle, Toshiba, and Comcast; and Stuart Pape of Patton Boggs, Washington’s foremost lobbying firm, who has lobbied for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and the Smokeless Tobacco Council…..
There is more about Obama’s fundraising tactics at Portfolio.com and an early story here.
In addition, Barack Obama has received the third largest amount of campaign contributions from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. You remember them, they are the companies that at the main culprits in the cause of our current financial crisis.
