GottaLaff, The Political Carnival AlterNet: PEEK. June 9, 2008. A new report confirms the obvious - Abramoff had undue influence in the White House, including with Bush.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Election 2008. May 19, 2008. MoveOn hits McCain campaign strategist over lobbying connections to African dictators.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Election 2008. May 14, 2008. Lobbyists turned campaign staffers resign over connections to military dictatorships.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 30, 2008. Obama’s campaign message, filled with lofty promises of change and hope, is also filled with repeated reassurances to the corporate elite.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. April 28, 2008. Despite failures in the market, the mortgage industry is fighting tighter regulation tooth and nail.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 28, 2008. Health industry lobbyists are raking in windfall profits this year, and we're all getting screwed.
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. February 26, 2008. Obama claims that he doesn't take money from lobbyists. The truth is, he is as beholden to special interest groups as all of the other candidates.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake. February 22, 2008. Why is everyone so surprised by McCain's connections to lobbyists? His current campaign chair is none other than uber-lobbyist Rick Davis.
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. January 18, 2008. I hate to burst the candidate's bubble, but that seems to have been a "Mittrepresentation".
Jim Hightower, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 15, 2007. Their shopping list is filled with requests for the Bushites to rig regulatory rules to benefit their industries.
David Sirota, In These Times. July 18, 2007. Democrats who were sent to Congress in the tide-turning election of 2006 are selling out the economic populism that got them elected in the first place.
Thomas Edsall, Huffington Post. June 25, 2007. John McCain’s presidential campaign is a severe case of political schizophrenia -- he pretends stand for clean government, yet he surrounds
himself by the very worst and most corrupt elements of Washington's political culture.
David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. April 2, 2007. David Sirota: What happens when a party's Washington elites decide to attack the entire concept of "ideology?"
Matt Stoller, AlterNet. December 14, 2006. The Chamber of Commerce, run by corrupt lobbyist Tom Donahue, has turned into a pay-to-play vehicle for right-wing causes and corporate dishonesty.
Stephanie Mencimer, TomPaine.com. November 17, 2006. Lobbyists and are gearing up once again to push for tort reforms in Washington. Will the Dems cave in to their demands?
David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund. November 16, 2006. Blaming lobbyists for corrupt lawmakers is not enough; the Democrats must act on the public's mandate to clean up Congress.
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