Conservative Group Offers to Sell Endorsement
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 17th, 2009 4:35 am by HL
Conservative Group Offers to Sell Endorsement
“The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a $2 million check in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay,” Politico reports.
“The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as ‘pay for play’ — was contained in a private letter to FedEx… The letter exposes the practice by some political interest groups of taking stands not for reasons of pure principle, as their members and supporters might assume, but also in part because a sponsor is paying big money.”
Dodd Email Blasting Lobbyists Sent to Lobbyists
According to the New York Times, Sen. Christopher Dodd’s (D-CT) campaign recently sent out a fund raising e-mail with the subject line: “Those poor lobbyists!”
“To tout Mr. Dodd’s common-man credentials, it quoted anonymous lobbyists complaining that they could not get meetings with him… A link sent viewers to a video set against the sound of weeping — presumably the tears of a lobbyist.”
The problem? The Dodd campaign neglected to remove Washington lobbyists from its e-mail fund-raising lists and sent it to them as well.
