President Barack Obama says lobbyists won't run his
administration, but he picked an antitobacco lobbyist with ties
to the pharmaceutical industry as the No. 2 official at the
Department of Health and Human Services.
The nomination of William Corr -- former executive director of
the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, where he was a registered
lobbyist until September -- highlights the murkiness of Mr.
Obama's antilobbyist policy.
Mr. Obama requires employees to sign a pledge stating they will
not "participate in any particular matter on which I lobbied
within the two years before the date of my appointment." Those
rules prohibit Mr. Corr from working on tobacco issues, the
White House says.
But Mr. Corr's nomination raises another question: In an era
when industries often make financial donations to
public-interest groups that support policies that help those
industries, when are public-interest advocates conflicted by
the funding that supports the causes they advocate?
The problem isn't hiring former lobbyists. The problem is
telling the world that you won't fill your administration with
former lobbyists and then doing so.
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Pete| 5.4.09 @ 10:51AM
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