Category: LDA

Bundlers in Bahamas, Brussels, and Rabat

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 2, 2009
Categories In LDA

President Barack Obama named additional significant campaign bundlers to ambassadorships, according to this report.

Access, Media, Lobbyists, and Cash

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 2, 2009
Categories In LDA

The Politico reports that The Post is facilitating contact between lobbyists and government officials, for a fee. For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The President at the Mandarin

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 19, 2009
Categories In LDA

The Times covers the President’s appearance at, and disappearance from, certain events at Washington’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. “Please note that the Friday Issues Conference is NOT subject to lobbyist restrictions, though the event is intended for personal contributions only,” a finance official from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee told lobbyists in an e-mail message. “The […]