Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Specter Switches Parties

Longtime GOP Sen. Arlen Specter becomes Democrat
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/28/specter.party.switch/

Specter Switching Parties, Will Run as a Democrat in 2010 (www.rollcall.com)
April 28, 2009, 12:03 p.m. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced Tuesday that he is switching parties and will run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010....

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Why is Lobbyist always a dirty word?


Nonprofit Groups Seeking Exceptions to Lobby Rule
Published: April 21, 2009
Critics of the president’s anti-lobbyist policy say it assumes that all lobbying is suspect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21lobby.html

“They’ve let the political call of being anti-lobbyist get in the way of how things really work.”