The NY Times reported that Mrs. Daschle, who works at Baker, Donelson Bearman & Caldwell, reported in Congressional lobbying records that her firm received almost $1.5 million last year from her clients, which included American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, the American Association of Airport Executives, the Cleveland airport, Boeing, Loral, United Technologies and L-3 International, one of the companies chosen by Congress to supply airports with bomb detection equipment.
“It is the smarminess and incestuousness that is most objectionable," said Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity. "It blurs the distinction between the public and private sector when part of the family is in the private sector enriching themselves through the public sector."
Mrs. Daschle, who was a deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration during the Clinton presidency. "When clients retain me, they don't retain me because I am Tom Daschle's wife."
Mrs Daschle oughta get real, if her husband wasn’t Senate majority leader, she’d be xeroing documents in the Senate mail-room.