A major lobbyist in her campaign finance committee
One thing the Obama campaign has consistently talked about has been lobbyist's and their closeness to our lawmakers. These lobbyists get paid to represent interest groups that may NOT represent the best interests of most working class Americans
One such lawmaker who has lobbyist on her campaign finance committee is Hillary Clinton
One new report from CQ magazine
A small number of lobbyists are super insiders. They don’t just donate money to their favorite congressional causes — they serve as treasurers of the lawmakers’ campaign committees.
One of them is Janice Enright, a registered lobbyist who is also treasurer of HillPAC, one of the political committees of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y.
"It’s not saying that all of them are evil characters," said Meredith McGehee, policy director of the Campaign Legal Center. "It’s simply saying that by definition as a lobbyist you are being paid by a private interest to influence the outcome of public policy made by these federal officials
Enright is the lobbying partner of Harold Ickes, a Clinton presidential campaign adviser, and they both worked in the Clinton White House.
The Senate Appropriations Committee listed Clinton as having jointly requested, with Sen. Charles E. Schumer , D-N.Y., hundreds of millions of dollars that the spending law earmarks for New York projects. About $4 million of that funding went to clients of Enright and Ickes, including $292,000 designated for a United Auto Workers training program that is a part of an umbrella group, Consortium for Worker Education, that Enright represents.
Another $487,000 is going to the Brooklyn Public Library for learning centers; and $585,000 to the New York Hall of Science in Queens for science exhibits and educational programming. Both recipients are clients of Enright, who also helped secure three earmarks totaling $1.5 million for the Abyssinian Development Corp. for family displacement, after-school, summer and at-risk youth programs.
Enright also represented Nassau County, which is getting $1.56 million for buses and bus facilities.
Those clients paid the Enright-Ickes team a total of $450,000, with the Brooklyn Public Library, Nassau County and Abyssinian Development fees coming as part of contracts through a sister firm, Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart Inc.
Jeffrey Peck, a partner at Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Steweart, said that while he was not aware of the reason specific clients were handled by Ickes-Enright, "We are going utilize the person who has the best background, experience or a relationship in a particular situation."
Neither Enright nor Clinton aides responded to requests for comment.
This is precisely the problem with Washington DC politicians that we ordinary Americans have long recognized. That Obama says he will disassociate himself from this kind of lobbying is EXACTLY the kind of change we need. Not having lobbyists run his campaign like HRC..she already has ultra lobbyist Mark Penn run her campaign
is there any wonder why she is not willing to display her tax returns from the past 8 yrs? any wonder why she and her husband are not willing to disclose who funded his Presidential library?
Which is why her campaign has no other choice but to make race an issue. All these distractions on race is nothing but a diversion from the real issue which is that will Hillary be any different from the GOP political leaders and their tactics she says she is different from?
Will she do anything about the wealthy and their tax cuts?
Thanks to Ken Silverstein of Harpers for posting this.