{"id":5327,"date":"2008-05-26T06:14:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/05\/a-lobbyist-is-running-obamas-c.html"},"modified":"2008-05-26T06:14:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T06:14:05","slug":"a-lobbyist-is-running-obamas-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/05\/a-lobbyist-is-running-obamas-c.html","title":{"rendered":"A lobbyist is running Obama’s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love it when hypocrites are exposed for what they are, don’t you? The Obama campaign has been riding McCain and Hillary for their ties to lobbyists but haven’t revealed that Obama’s campaign manager was a lobbyist in a very sneaky and slimy way<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison wanted state lawmakers to back a hefty rate hike two years ago, it took a creative lobbying approach, concocting a new outfit that seemed devoted to the public interest: Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity, or CORE. CORE ran TV ads warning of a “California-style energy crisis” if the rate increase wasn’t approved\u2014but without disclosing the commercials were funded by Commonwealth Edison. The ad campaign provoked a brief uproar when its ties to the utility, which is owned by Exelon Corp., became known. “It’s corporate money trying to hoodwink the public,” the state’s Democratic Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn said. What got scant notice then\u2014but may soon get more scrutiny\u2014is that CORE was the brainchild of ASK Public Strategies, a consulting firm whose senior partner is David Axelrod, now chief strategist for Barack Obama.
\nLast week, Obama hit John McCain for hiring “some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington” to run his campaign; Obama’s aides say their candidate, as a foe of “special interests,” has refused to take money from lobbyists or employ them. Neither Axelrod nor his partners at ASK ever registered as lobbyists for Commonwealth Edison\u2014and under Illinois’s loose disclosure laws, they were not required to. “I’ve never lobbied anybody in my life,” Axelrod tells NEWSWEEK. “I’ve never talked to any public official on behalf of a corporate client.” (He also says “no one ever denied” that Edison was the “principal funder” of his firm’s ad campaign.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Defend away, Obamanites \ud83d\ude42 I’m sure you’ll start with the ad hominem attacks about how I’m a hypocrite or McCain’s lobbyists are worst, blah, blah, blah, *Yawn* That’s what you do, attack the Republicans while ignoring what the Democrats are doing.
\n(via<\/a>)
\nUpdate<\/strong>: Um…I’ve already had one commenter who has misread this post as bitter so I thought I would give you guys a little insight into what I was thinking when I wrote it. I was thinking how funny it was that Obama has a campaign manager running his campaign that did the exact same thing that he (the campaign manager) accused Obama’s opponent of doing. It’s just so ironic and funny and I love things like this. Why would I be bitter about it? Now, you could say I was being derisive and you would be right but bitter or angry, no.
\nUpdate again<\/strong>: I think I’m going to help you people out by letting you know when I’m being derisive. I will try to remember to add a derisive tag to give you a heads up that I’m not angry or bitter just amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love it when hypocrites are exposed for what they are, don’t you? 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