{"id":41188,"date":"2014-02-24T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/protective-lobbyist-to-the-rescue.html"},"modified":"2014-02-24T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T06:04:55","slug":"protective-lobbyist-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/protective-lobbyist-to-the-rescue.html","title":{"rendered":"Protective Lobbyist to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thank God we have a K Street lobbyist to protect us from "a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country."<\/p>\n

Just waiting to hear about the "political support" he claims is lined up being the bill.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lobbyist drafts bill to ban gays from NFL<\/a>
\n \u201dWe are losing our decency as a nation,\u201d lobbyist Jack Burkman said.\n <\/p>\n

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Thank God we have a K Street lobbyist to protect us from "a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country." Just waiting to hear about the "political support" he claims is lined up being the bill. Reshared post from +Kee Hinckley Lobbyist drafts bill to ban gays from NFL \u201dWe are losing our decency … Continue reading “Protective Lobbyist to the Rescue!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50112,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/the-lobbyist-who-works-hand-in-hand-and-more-with-the-congressman.html","url_meta":{"origin":41188,"position":0},"title":"The Lobbyist who works hand in hand (and more) with the Congressman","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Apr-15 10:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The basic idea that the Chairman of the House Transportation (R-Penn.) and Infrastructure Committee is in a romantic relationship with a top lobbyist for an airline trade association pushing a revamp of the Federal Aviation Administration would be eyebrow-raising enough.That there's apparently no formal ethical rule about \"sleeping with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/theres-huge-amounts-of-money-involved-in-the-war-on-drugs.html","url_meta":{"origin":41188,"position":1},"title":"There's huge amounts of money involved in the War on Drugs","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Mar-12 8:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Money for police departments, police unions, private prisons, prison unions, alcohol producers, drug companies ... and they're not afraid to spend some of that money to make sure that the War goes on ... #ddtb Embedded Link Exclusive: Why Can\u2019t You Smoke Pot? 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