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If you checked the links I provided, you'd see that Oil and Pharmacueticals aren't even in her top list of contributors. She hasn't received much, if any, money from them.
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by djtyg on Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 12:10:31 PM PDT
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The Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., reports Clinton has received more than $500,000 this year from federal lobbyists. Edwards has taken no money from lobbyists, but the center's Web site, www.opensecrets.org, confirms his campaign has gotten large amounts from industry sectors that employ federal lobbyists that, in the aggregate, gave him $6.5 million. ... "Either you lobby the federal government or you don't. Either you are paid to influence legislation and the people who write it or you're not. The line is clear and only murky for those who are trying to blur it," Schultz said.
The Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., reports Clinton has received more than $500,000 this year from federal lobbyists.
Edwards has taken no money from lobbyists, but the center's Web site, www.opensecrets.org, confirms his campaign has gotten large amounts from industry sectors that employ federal lobbyists that, in the aggregate, gave him $6.5 million.
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"Either you lobby the federal government or you don't. Either you are paid to influence legislation and the people who write it or you're not. The line is clear and only murky for those who are trying to blur it," Schultz said.
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by chuckles1 on Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 06:09:21 PM PDT
They [Obama and Edwards] still take money from state lobbyists. They make no attempt to distinguish between lobbyists for big corporations and lobbyists for small non-profits. They treat a lobbyist for Haliburton in the same way as a lobbyist for child poverty or cancer research. They accept money from former lobbyists and future lobbyists. As Clinton has pointed out, her rivals have no problem taking money from the people who pay the lobbyists, and give them their "marching orders." (ABC News debate, August 19, 2007.) They have no problem about taking money from people representing other "special interests," e.g. trial lawyers and the hedge fund industry. So far this year, according to Opensecrets.org, Edwards has taken more than $8 million from lawyers and law firms, some of whom employ the federally-registered lobbyists whose lucre he refuses to touch.
They [Obama and Edwards] still take money from state lobbyists.
They make no attempt to distinguish between lobbyists for big corporations and lobbyists for small non-profits. They treat a lobbyist for Haliburton in the same way as a lobbyist for child poverty or cancer research.
They accept money from former lobbyists and future lobbyists.
As Clinton has pointed out, her rivals have no problem taking money from the people who pay the lobbyists, and give them their "marching orders." (ABC News debate, August 19, 2007.)
They have no problem about taking money from people representing other "special interests," e.g. trial lawyers and the hedge fund industry.
So far this year, according to Opensecrets.org, Edwards has taken more than $8 million from lawyers and law firms, some of whom employ the federally-registered lobbyists whose lucre he refuses to touch.
Just because he doesn't take money from Washington lobbyists doesn't mean that he hasn't taken money from lobbyists at all. And opensecrets has shown that he's received over $20,000 from them.
Aside from that, you yourself said that Edwards took over a half a million from the insurance industry. I'M SAYING IT WAS LESS. I don't get why you want to tell me he did take a large sum of money a few hours prior, only to now be saying he hasn't taken a dime.
by djtyg on Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 10:45:45 PM PDT
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