Posted on 02/21/2009 3:34:47 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
President's Nominee for Trade Rep, a Lobbyist in 2008, to Take Advantage of Loophole in Anti-Lobbyist Regs
On first blush, Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas and President Obama's nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, could seem as though he has an enormous impediment standing in his way to the Cabinet: President Obama's high standards against lobbyists in his Cabinet.
As recently as last year, Kirk was a lobbyist for investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and President Obama has said no one can work in his administration on issues they lobbied on in the previous two years.
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Rules, we don’t need no stinkin’ rules....
I don’t care who he selects for anything anymore...their all scum.
If you pay your taxes, you have no place in zer0's administration. Someone needs to take a long look at zer0 and see how much he owes.
Damn, another Obama nominee who does not pay his taxes.
I thought Comrade Biden said paying taxes was patriotic!
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