Obama returns lobbyist contributions

[KingofNewOrleans]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_el_pr/obama_lobbyists;_

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has returned more than $50,000 in political contributions after discovering the donors were lobbyists. Obama, who has pledged to change the ways of Washington, has repeatedly said he will not accept money from lobbyists or from special interest political action committees.
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The announcement was designed to get ahead of the FEC report, which must be filed by midnight Sunday. Many of the lobbyists' names will remain listed in the report because their checks were deposited before they were identified.

While shunning lobbyists money, the Obama campaign still has relied on political and policy advice from Washington lobbyists and does accept donations from lobbyists spouses.

Article says Edwards doesn't take lobbyist money either, wouldn't be surprised if he has to return some donations too.

I dunno, I'm not surprised that lobbyist money slipped thru, so that's no biggie. Taking money from lobbyist's spouse seems to kind of undercut the whole theme though.

Couple of days ago, an Obama supporter actually posted an article talking about Tom Daschle's involvement with the Obama campaign and seemed intrigued with the idea of Daschle as a running mate, apparently unaware that Daschle is in fact a full fledged lobbyist now.


Seems that running an ethical and well-financed campaign is kind of like going thru puberty, no matter what your still going to end up with a few zits.