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Anonymous

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This could screw up some of the NCBA boys that jump from the NCBA job to the USDA and back to the packers in the "revolving door" of bought out corruption.. :D :clap:

Obama Team Moves to Keep Its Distance From Lobbyists

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; Page A04

Barack Obama campaigned as an anti-Washington candidate, and the leader of his presidential transition team made it clear that the president-elect would seek to build on that theme over the next two months.

His transition chief, John D. Podesta, announced a set of broad regulations yesterday that ban federal lobbyists from participating in Obama's transition, saying the move is designed to ensure "that the undue influence of Washington lobbyists and the revolving door of Washington ceases to exist."

The transition team will not allow lobbyists to work in the subject areas in which they have previously lobbied, Podesta said. And if someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they will be prohibited from lobbying the administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.

"I've heard the other complaint, which is we're leaving all these experts on the side. . . . We're leaving all the people who know everything out in the cold," Podesta said. "And so be it." He said a similar ban was likely to be in effect for the actual administration, including an extension of the lobbyist ban to two years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/11/AR2008111102661.html?hpid=topnews
 

badaxemoo

Well-known member
It's a good gesture, but I'm being very cautious about Obama's ag policy.

1. He's a big ethanol supporter - being from Illinois maybe he didn't have much choice, but I'm concerned his previous support for corn-based ethanol will continue.

2. He's been pretty tepid on enforcing air and water emissions for CAFOs.

3. Charles Stenholm's name, one of the architects of the awful 2002 farm bill, has been floated as a possible Secretary of Ag.

Frankly, I'm concerned.
 

Lonecowboy

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
This could screw up some of the NCBA boys that jump from the NCBA job to the USDA and back to the packers in the "revolving door" of bought out corruption.. :D :clap:

Obama Team Moves to Keep Its Distance From Lobbyists

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; Page A04

Barack Obama campaigned as an anti-Washington candidate, and the leader of his presidential transition team made it clear that the president-elect would seek to build on that theme over the next two months.

His transition chief, John D. Podesta, announced a set of broad regulations yesterday that ban federal lobbyists from participating in Obama's transition, saying the move is designed to ensure "that the undue influence of Washington lobbyists and the revolving door of Washington ceases to exist."

The transition team will not allow lobbyists to work in the subject areas in which they have previously lobbied, Podesta said. And if someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they will be prohibited from lobbying the administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.

"I've heard the other complaint, which is we're leaving all these experts on the side. . . . We're leaving all the people who know everything out in the cold," Podesta said. "And so be it." He said a similar ban was likely to be in effect for the actual administration, including an extension of the lobbyist ban to two years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/11/AR2008111102661.html?hpid=topnews

my my my, obama keeps himself pretty busy distancing himself from everything, wright, ayers,acorn, sinclair, rezko,all the lawsuits,etc.etc. etc. the list goes on and on.
running so fast he apparently left his birth certificate behind!!
who/what is he going to be "distancing" himself from next??
 

Mike

Well-known member
Looks like Obama is caught in another lie. First he said:
"I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race," Obama said in a speech last November in Spartanburg, S.C.

"I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House," he said.

Then after the election he allows Lobbyists in the White House with caveats....... :lol: :lol:

Yes sireeee!!!!!! He's keeping those campaign promises. :roll: :roll:

CHANGE?????????? Yea right. :wink:
 
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