Cain filled his Washington Rolodex as a highly effective industry lobbyist in the late 1990s
From 1996, when he left the pizza company, until 1999, Cain ran the National Restaurant Association, a once-sleepy trade group that he transformed into a lobbying powerhouse.
That doesn’t make him a Washington insider, it makes him a good business leader.
What did you expect hundreds of thousands of businesses to do? Sit there and take it?