A G.O.P. Leader (John Boehner) Tightly Bound to Lobbyists - nyt

[JohnWxy]

this was posted Saturday on GEnDiscPres, but many (like me) miss stuff on the week-ends. For those, I posted this on Boehners close ties to Lobbyist money (I guess they mean close, even by GOP norms .. {I can't use the word 'standards' in connection with the GOP}).

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/politics/12boehner.html

By Eric Lipton


WASHINGTON — House Democrats were preparing late last year for the first floor vote on the financial regulatory overhaul when Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican leaders summoned more than 100 industry lobbyists and conservative political activists to Capitol Hill for a private strategy session.

Representative John A. Boehner arriving for a fund-raiser for Ann Marie Buerkle, a House candidate from New York.
The bill’s passage in the House already seemed inevitable. But Mr. Boehner and his deputies told the Wall Street lobbyists and trade association leaders that by teaming up, they could still perhaps block its final passage or at least water it down.

“We need you to get out there and speak up against this,” Mr. Boehner said that December afternoon, according to three people familiar with his remarks, while also warning against cutting side deals with Democrats.

That sort of alliance — they won a few skirmishes, though they lost the war on the regulatory bill — is business as usual for Mr. Boehner, the House minority leader and would-be speaker if Republicans win the House in November. He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R. J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.

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[JohnWxy]

1. from the article, Boehner was on the House floor.. "...handing out checks from lobbyists"

"Mr. Boehner won some of his first national headlines in 1996 after he was caught handing out checks from tobacco lobbyists to fellow Republicans on the House floor. Then the fourth-ranking House Republican, he said he had broken no rules and was simply assisting his lobbyist friends, who were contributing to other Republicans’ campaigns. "

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2. Too bad it ain't with a rope

[Skittles]

3. Boner is King of the Corporate Whores n/t