Author: Eric Brown

It may have seemed that lobbyists were “kicked around” on the campaign trail this year, according to this National Journal blog entry. Yet, [Patrick] Griffin called some of the candidates’ solutions on the campaign trail “distortions and caricatures.” He said there are useful ways to tackle revolving-door problems, but not by “embracing all of this debate […]

Washingtonian says that the massive financial crisis has left some winners:  lobbyists! It was a fairy tale brought to life: Wall Street had been trapped in a dungeon by evil mortgages, and it was up to Washington to save them. Legislators, lobbyists, and administration officials struggled to slay the dragons of bad debt while being […]