Obama’s Complex History With Lobbyists

“A look at Obama’s seven years in the Illinois Legislature reveals a complicated relationship with lobbyists, particulary for someone who now makes criticism of lobbyists a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

Barack Obama played poker and basketball with lobbyists when he was a state senator. He took their campaign donations and worked with them to write legislation. But he also helped pass ethics laws to reduce their influence.”

Nevertheless according to the book of François Durpaire and Oliver Richomme ” America of Barack Obama “, it is not with the lobbies that Obama became rich and powerful but thanks to Internet.

The beginning of 2007, a supporter and “fund raiser” new yorkais, Julius Genachowski, convinces the campaign Obama where it is necessary to make the difference on the net. Obama engages as director of internet campaign, Jim Brayton, who in 2004 had made of Howard Dean a big cyber-success.

The site of Obama is very a canvasser: from the homepage, a big red button: “donate”. And, just below, this text: “the presidential election campaign of Barack Obama is completely financed by basic supporters as you. Contrary to Hillary Clinton, the Senator Obama does not accept money of the groups of interest and the lobbyists of Washington.

His site allowed the challenger of rise of the live money, but especially to recruit hundred of thousand volunteers, who organize in four places of the country of the sales of cookies house, meetings tupperware or contests of football.

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