The Times notes hedge fund lobbyists’ position on carried interest and financial regulatory reform in this article.
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Remains of the day on ethics (the Sestak/Bauer memo) and lobbying news
* * * * * As promised by the President yesterday, White House Counsel Robert Bauer released a memorandum on the Sestak deal. With all due deference to Mr. Bauer, isn’t this Norm Eisen territory? (It’s Friday, as well.) I see the memo uses the royal “we” in the second paragraph. but I think some […]
Candidate’s “haunting” past as lobbyist an issue
In what may be an issue for other candidates, Politico discusses Dan Coats’s history as a lobbyist in this article this morning. Since even before Coats entered the race, foes in both parties have painted him as a Beltway hired gun. Now, weeks after securing his party’s nomination, Coats is mired in a dispute with […]