NYT: GOP Leader is Tightly Bound to Lobbyists

[flpoljunkie]

No sh*t! Article worth reading in its entirety.)

G.O.P. Leader Is Tightly Bound to Lobbyists

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.

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.

They have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaigns over the years, provided him rides on their corporate jets, socialized with him at luxury golf resorts and waterfront bashes and are now leading fund-raising efforts for his Boehner for Speaker campaign, which is soliciting checks of up to $37,800 each, the maximum allowed.

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

[Xipe Totec]

1. No sex threads. n/t

[KingFlorez]

2. If Boehner becomes Speaker, it will got back to being just like it was under Hastert and Delay

Corruption run amok and votes being held out for long after they were supposed to have finished. Boehner will turn the House into his own little fiefdom.

[ProSense]

3. This article should be atop the front page.

Boehner is perfect as a the face of the Republican Party.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Kahuna sez:: BEWARE THE BONER MOANER...He is not a COUNTRY FIRST Guy

[SpiralHawk]

5. As a republicon, he's a Country Club guy first

What working person would possibly vote for this republicreep?

[opihimoimoi]

8. His support comes from peeps lost in thought and unaware he is WHACKO

[indepat]

10. Would bet a bundle a bunch of working people will vote to return his magnificence to Congress

assuring his re-election. ;)

[old mark]

6. Democrats in Ohio should run this article every day till the election

and get this bastard out of office.


mark

[jefferson_dem]

7. Press Sec. Gibbs smells blood... loves this story - has already tweeted about it four times today.

Story on Boehner covers some of his greatest hits - handing out checks from lobbyists on the House floor http://bit.ly/aMEO6j

http://twitter.com/PressSec/statuses/24278794948

[Cha]

9. KICK!

[FrenchieCat]

11. Guess he wanted to change the subject..........

and caved in to Dem's proposal to allow only the Bush tax cuts for the Middle Class.

I'm sure the media won't accuse them of this....
after all, he ain't a Democrat.

[JNelson6563]

12. Does he have a safe word?

Mine is "cinnamon".

Julie