Why is Lobbyist always a dirty word?

Nonprofit Groups Seeking Exceptions to Lobby Rule

By PETER BAKER

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.”