Ex-congressman's filing suggests he broke lobby law

[Freddie Stubbs]

Senate candidate in S.D. says forms were misleading
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | May 20, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Former congressman John Thune, who is seeking to unseat the Senate Democratic leader in one of the year's most hotly contested Senate races, reported lobbying his former colleagues on Medicare last year, behavior that would have violated laws restricting the activities of former members of Congress.

Thune campaign manager Dick Wadhams denied that the South Dakota Republican lobbied the House in 2003 and said the forms that Thune's firm filed were misleading.

But the 2003 report that Thune's lobbying firm filed with Congress clearly lists Thune as one of eight lobbyists who contacted the House, Senate, and Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of Laserscope Inc., a medical laser systems supplier, last year.

Departing members of Congress are subject to a one-year "cooling off" period, meaning that Thune would not have been allowed to lobby Congress last year.

more: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/05/20/ex_congressmans_filing_suggests_he_broke_lobby_law/

[GreenGreenLimaBean]

1. They can't resist the dark side.

another phony politician gets caught with his hand in the lobbyist
cookie jar.

[EdGy]

2. throw his sorry ass in jail!

Typical Republican morality.