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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on April 15, 2012, 06:05:32 PM
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But I thought that this wasn't going to happen in Hopey McChangeSnorter's administration!
However, the big news in this isn't that it's happening, it's where it's being reported--and who is corroborating the story. (more below, after the firve paragraphs.)
White House Opens Door to Big Donors, and Lobbyists Slip In
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/04/15/us/sub-jp-donate-1/sub-jp-donate-1-articleLarge.jpg)
Invitations to state dinners and other exclusive White House events have long been a reward to big contributors.
By MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUO
Published: April 14, 2012
Last May, as a battle was heating up between Internet companies and Hollywood over how to stop online piracy, a top entertainment industry lobbyist landed a meeting at the White House with one of President Obama’s technology advisers.
The lobbyist did not get there by himself.
He was accompanied by Antoinette C. Bush, a well-connected Washington lawyer who has represented companies like Viacom, Sony and News Corporation for 30 years. A friend of the president and a cousin of his close aide Valerie B. Jarrett, Ms. Bush has been to the White House at least nine times during his term, taking lobbyists along on a few occasions, joining an invitation-only forum about intellectual property, and making social visits with influential friends.
At the same time, she and her husband, Dwight, have donated heavily to the president’s re-election effort: Mr. Bush gave $35,800 on the day of his wife’s White House meeting last year, and Ms. Bush contributed the same amount a month later. In November, they hosted a $17,900-a-plate fund-raiser at their home, where Mr. Obama complained that the nation’s capital should be more “responsive to the needs of people, not the needs of special interests.â€
“That is probably the biggest piece of business that remains unfinished,†the president said, as about 45 guests dined under a backyard tent.
The rest is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us/politics/white-house-doors-open-for-big-donors.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp
Of all of the people to go along with this, later on in the article, Patrick Kennedy agrees with the practice.
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I can't believe this is a NYT story.
“If you want to call it ‘quid pro quo,’ fine,†he said. “At the end of the day, I want to make sure I do my part.â€
Dang patches, that is quite the quote to give to the press.
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This is the crew that let the Salahis illegally have access to the White House.