Posted on 10/11/2016 3:41:44 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Evan Bayh spent substantial time during his last year in the Senate searching for a private sector job even as he voted on issues of interest to his future corporate bosses, according to the former Indiana lawmaker's 2010 schedule, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press.
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He was looking for a lobbying gig.
Where I come from, that’s called Conflict of Interest.
Here’s more on that Senate race. The poll was released one day before this headline...
Where?
Several people have proposed a rule that when a member of congress leaves, they cannot get a lobbying job for five years.
In my opinion, if congress were held to the constitution and couldn’t spend money other than what the constitution delegates to them, there wouldn’t be any lobbyists and bills full of pork wouldn’t be a problem.
Look, the Young campaign caught Bayh in more bad behavior:
That doesn't sound constitutional.
What do you think, Auh?
Seems to me that a better idea would be to try and have Congressional rules that restrict how current members interact with lobbyists or expand the defintion of bribery, but you can't violate freedom of association or speech.
Sure sounds like a violation of Freedom of Speech to me. But then again, so do so many ideas coming out of candidates’ mouths nowadays.
Time to amend the constitution — lobbying should be public, not in private, except in matters of national security.
Then we don’t need to worry about who is the ‘backdoor lobbyist’.
NRA has nothing to hide. But Family Planning has PLENTY to hide.
So I got an email from Dave Leip that his Senate endorsement map is up.
Here are mine
The Republican nominee (Yes even Kirk, McCain, and all those other jerks) where there is one, with the exception of Alaska.
In Alaska liberal RINO Lisa Murkowski faces a very very weak democrat, and a liberalish sounding Indie, the Libertarian nominee dropped out so 2010 GOP nominee Joe Miller could get that ballot line. Miller is not my favorite person but polls actually have him running (a distant) 2nd to Princess Lisa, whom he is far to the right of. So I see no reason not to strongly endorse him.
An aside, I was looking up the rat primary and apparently the rats and the Libertarians and the Alaska Independence Party (which didn’t run anyone I guess) all appeared on the SAME primary ballot, with the top candidate from each party advancing. Weird. Is this standard or new? I had no idea.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=807394
In California where it’s a D/D race I endorse Loretta Sanchez to keep Kamala Harris from being a future national candidate. A Republican wasn’t gonna win so I wouldn’t mind this D/D crap so much IF I had any confidence that Cali GOP voters would do the correct thing and vote to stop Harris, which I do NOT. As distasteful as it I strongly advise this, it’s a binary choice.
In Louisiana’s stoooopid Jungle Primary I endorse John Fleming. I know a lot of freepers like Mannses but he’s in single digits, don’t waste your vote. Kennedy’s numbers seem to have collapsed for some reason and he, Boustany, Fleming, and both the rats seem to all have a chance at making the runoff. D/D is unlikely but not outside the realm of possibility! I would have an aneurysm if that happened, unacceptable.
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