An industry rep is not a “Washington” insider.
Lobbyists are beggars, not power brokers.
Its the corrupt power brokers like Newt that are the problem.
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.