Aww. Poor Wittle Fedewal Wobbyists.
During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history. The rules are:
- Federal Lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition.
- Federal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition.
- If someone has lobbied in the last 12 months, they are prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied.
- If someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the Transition, they are prohibited from lobbying the Administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.
- A gift ban that is aggressive in reducing the influence of special interests.
Special thanks to my friend Rahul the socially liberal, Ron Paul supporting, conservative who alerted me to this site.
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I wonder if there’s a worse job that federal lobbyist.
Hmmm…
Really? Wow, that’s freaking awesome. Maybe I didn’t do so bad a job voting for Barack, after all.
Wow. Just wow.
I am all veklempt over here thinking about what is possible for the next four years. ::jumps up and down::
@ Sybil Law: No, I don’t think there is… it’s like being a prostitute only less ethical.
@Karl: You had any doubt whatsoever?!!!
@Robin: Me too.
I like his style. I can’t wait to see what else he’ll do.
@Gatsby: Wow, if *you* like his style, then the man has def. got style.