Street Talk: Lobbying Is Still a Game Dominated by the Young
- By T.R. Goldman
- Roll Call Staff
- Feb. 9, 2009, Midnight
Tom Daschle pulled down a cool $2 million lobbying for Alston & Bird.
True, he didn’t technically “lobby” because he didn’t fit the Lobbying Disclosure Act’s exacting criteria. But let’s be real: Lobbying is any effort to influence public policy — it doesn’t matter whether you can avoid registration because you are paid tens of thousands of dollars to tell a client who to lobby and how, but make no more than one lobbying “contact” on the client’s behalf.
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