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Top Official At Nader's Old Group Sees Obama As Most Reliable Good-Government Ally | TPMCafe

Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:48 PM EDT
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politics, barack-obama, election-2008, ethics, ralph-nader, presidential-primary, government-reform, revolving-door, public-citizen, k-street-lobbyists
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Look out K Street Lobbyists! Finally, they have met their match in Barack Obama, who is running the Democratic Presidential Primary campaign with none of their money and has now made an official committment to slam shut the revolving door between the White House, Congress and K Street. Obviously, Obama will need lots of continued campaign contributions from his grassroots and new converts to carry out his threat. Here's the money quote from TPMCafe's article: 'Asked if this meant Obama was really better than the other Dems on good-government issues, Holman said: "Certainly in terms of his active roles. I would expect many of the Democratic candidates to endorse similar proposals. But Senator Obama has been actively working on these since even before he considered running for President."

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