Mark Penn, Charles Black, and FISA lobbying for AT&T

[antigop]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/24/14518/2213/544/463202

Hillary Clinton's chief strategist is Mark Penn, and Charlie Black, John McCain's top adviser, is chairman of BKSH, the DC-based lobbying subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller -- of which Mark Penn is CEO.

You can query the lobbying disclosure act database by going to http://www.sopr.senate.gov

I can't find a way to give a direct link to a specific report, but you can find a lobbying report by using these search arguments:

client name: AT&T
lobbyist name: black
report type: YEAR-END Report
filing year: 2007


You should then get a result:
Registrant Name: BKSH & Associates

Client Name: AT&T

Filing Type: Year-end Report

Date Received: 2/13/2008

Filing year: 2007


Clicking on that entry should take you to the lobbying report.
On page 2 of the report there are two items of interest. Be sure to look at items 16 and 18.



Item 16. Specific lobbying issues:
Relevant Regulatory Provisions, Video Competition Act, and Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Act

Item 18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue are:
Charles Black (along with some others...)

[Forkboy]

1. K&R

:kick:

[midnight]

2. This makes me wish John Edwards was still around.....

[ginnyinWI]

8. Obama is as anti-lobbyist as Edwards is.

One of his main platforms is to get transparency in Washington and get the lobbyists out into the light of day where they certainly don't want to be.

He actually believes in the Constitution--that government is supposed to serve the electorate.--and that we can get closer to what that ideal if we try.

[RememberWellstone]

3. Rezko?

Did someone say Rezko? No? The why are the people NOT running being called into question?

[antigop]

4. Hey, thanks for the kick! n/t

[antigop]

5. kick n/t

[bigbrother05]

6. Maybe this is why

she didn't show up to vote

[Medusa]

7. Ya think?

:headbang: Selling out to big business and corporate interests yet again.

[bigbrother05]

9. Yes I really do

:thumbsup: