Lobbyists Aren’t the Campaigns’ Only Bundlers

• By Craig L. McDonald
• Special to Roll Call
• Feb. 8, 2007, Midnight

The Senate’s newly approved rules requiring lobbyists to disclose the sources of the campaign checks that they bundle together for politicians are a welcome — if puzzling — reform. Welcome because bundling circumvents established limits on individual contributions. Puzzling because most bundlers, at least the ones we know about, aren’t lobbyists at all. Meaningful disclosure would allow us to “follow the money” by connecting the dots behind every bundling transaction.