The 9 Most Loathsome Lobbyists in Washington
http://www.alternet.org/news/156279/the_9_most_loathsome_lobbyists_in_washington/
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9) Chris Dodd
The former Connecticut Senator, and internationally renowned eyebrow-haver, isnt the most prodigious scum in the Beltway swamp, but he may be the most hypocritical. When asked in 2010 what would follow his thirty-year legislative career, which ended amid financial scandal, Dodd bluntly said, No lobbying, no lobbying. He then promptly became, as The Hill put it, Hollywoods leading man in Washington, taking the most prestigious job on K Street, as chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. The gig comes with a $1.2 million annual salary, and complimentary tickets to the Academy Awards.
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8) Billy Tauzin
The former Louisiana Congressmans lobbying career functionally began before he left Capitol Hill. In 2003, as one of his final acts as chair of the committee that oversees the pharmaceutical industry, he brazenly extended a fifteen-minute vote on the Medicare Modernization Act so the industry-authored bill, which prohibited the federal government from negotiating drug prices, could pass quietly in the night.
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7) Richard Berman
In the Venn diagram representing lobbying, public relations, and shameless evil, Berman occupies the balding overlap. An anti-labor-lawyer-cum-anti-labor evangelist, the sole proprietor of the PR firm Berman and Associates has earned the nickname Astroturf Kingpin for repeatedly forming phony, industry-funded nonprofits to spread his clients falsehoods. Dubbed the booze and food industries weapon of mass destruction by 60 Minutes, Bermans clients include the usual restaurant, alcohol, tobacco, and living-wage-averse service industry suspects, with the front groups bearing creepy Orwellian names like the Minimum Wage Coalition to Save Jobs.
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6) Tony Podesta
Inflate former Clinton chief of staff and current Center for American Progress head honcho withmore?hot air anddefinitely more!lard, and you get his bloated brother Tony.