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Names of the DC Lobbyists Obama “Doesn’t” Take Money From

By Uppity Woman on April 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM in Barack Obama, Federal Lobbyists

I would like to follow up on Barack Obama’s TV spot about how he doesn’t take money from lobbyists. First let’s take a look at his ad again.

Now let’s take a look at known Federal Lobbyists who are referred to as Bundlers For Barack Obama. You see, unlike the other candidates in this race, Barack Obama is far more surreptitious about his relationships with lobbyists, so that you might be able to see a sweet lovable TV commercial like the one we just saw. He is very clever. Known lobbyists collect “bundled” money for him so that the money doesn’t actually “look” like it came from the lobbyist himself. Now why would a lobbyist do this? Two reasons:

1) So Barack Obama could pretend he doesn’t take money from lobbyists

and

2) So the lobbyist will still later get “credit” for collecting all this cool cash for their “Man”.

Barack Obama appears to have mastered many old tricks for a man who claims to be “different”. Here is a most recent list of Registered Federal Lobbyists who have bundled money for Barack Obama. Click on the links to see bundling and lobby information from White House For Sale.

Timothy Broas – $100,000+

Frank Clark – $200,000+

Howard Gutman – $200,000+

Scott Harris – $200,000+

Allan Katz – $200,000 +

William Lake – $50,000+

Robert S. Litt – $ Not Revealed

Kenneth Lore – $50,000+

Thomas J. Perrelli – $200,000+

Thomas A. Reed – $200,000+

Paul N. Roth – $50,000+

Alan Solomont – $100,000+

Robert M. Sussman $50,000+

Tom E. Wheeler – $100,00+

Total: $1,700,000+ dollars in bundled money from known registered Federal Lobbyists.

Let me clarify here before we get into a pissing match. Right or wrong, just about every presidential candidate who ever lived has collected money from lobbyists either directly or via bundling. The only difference here is Barack Obama denies it. And that is just plain unacceptable.

Hyper Educated Uppity Woman