Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:09 PM
March Fundraising Frenzy Annoys Lobbyists
It's almost the end of the first quarter of 2009 and lobbyists are complaining to me about the stepped-up pressure they are getting from fundraisers working for lawmakers and the political parties. Though the 2010 election is a long way off, fundraising numbers are seen as an early sign of a candidate's re-electability and no lawmaker wants to look weak.
The Sunlight Foundation's Party Time blog has a calendar of the dizzying number of fundraising events this month.
Meanwhile, I thought our readers would be amused by one complaint a lobbyist sent me with regard to an invitation to a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser co-hosted by DCCC vice-chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Frontline co-chair Chris Murphy, D-Ct., to be held in Wasserman's conference room at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on March 24.
Here's the invite:
Here's what the unhappy source had to say:
"Bara: Where might I find 50K to have a bottle of cheap wine and a box of chez-bits in the Stalin-bland DNC Wasserman Room?
--Bara Vaida
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Jamie Johnsons
Thursday, October 27, 2011
It's really true that in a deep recession, the economy is tanking and the Speaker and freshmen members are hammering on lobbyist like there is no tomorrow, it is really un-nerving. Spending 50K, (twice if the medium income in 48 states) just to have a bottle of cheap wine and a box of chez-bits in the Stalin-bland DNC Wasserman Room is really unreasonable in a time of deep recession.
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