Dosen't this a-hole sound framiliar....

[Daylin Byak]

Since it dealt with lobbying i put it in the GD forum, but this guy that wrote this letter to the post gazette sound framiliar. Read it....


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


On lobbying reform, I am the Republican leadership's point man


Regarding the March 1 Post-Gazette article by Maeve Reston, "Santorum No Longer in Forefront of Efforts to Revamp Lobbying": I'd like to set the record straight.

I disagree with the headline and the entire tone of the article. When Sen. Bill Frist asked me to lead the Republican lobbying reform effort, the goal was to bring Democrats and Republicans together on a bill that we could all agree on. The Senate rules apply to members of both parties and reform can and should be done in a bipartisan manner. So I hosted a working group that included a truly bipartisan group of senators such as John McCain, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Russ Feingold and Trent Lott. And we reached agreement on a number of important principles, which, as the article reported, were adopted by the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday.

Standard procedure in the Senate is that bills move through committees and then to the Senate floor -- it makes the process smoother and more bipartisan and the bill more likely to pass. But it does not, in any way, remove me from the process. Although this is not the "Santorum Lobbying Reform Bill," I will continue to be the Republican leadership's point man on this issue. And I will continue to do everything in my power to ensure that the Senate does the right thing from an ethics point of view.

In addition, the article referred to my "personal charity." I do not have a personal charity. The reference was an allusion to Operation Good Neighbor, a charitable organization that I founded in 2000. Since then, I have had no control over its direction. My involvement is limited to being honorary chairman of the board -- a board that includes former Philadelphia mayor W. Wilson Goode, a prominent Democrat -- and lending my name to fund-raising events. That's it.


U.S. SEN. RICK SANTORUM
Washington, D.C

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. doesn't Tom DeLay use similar organizations and language?