Lobby for Colombia Trade Pact Casts a Wide Net
By ERIC LIPTON and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
WASHINGTON — There have been all-expense paid trips to Colombia for more than 50 members of Congress, featuring coffee tastings and dinner at a posh restaurant inside an old Spanish fort. The Colombian president has visited Washington to make personal appeals. Major corporations like WalMart and Citigroup are taking up the cause. And former Clinton administration officials have landed lucrative lobbying contracts.
Gee, with a cast of characters like this, I just know this is going to be a good deal for the people this group is most concerned with; just folks.
Oh yeah, we're going to make out like bandits on this deal. One thing I have learned is, if it's good for Wal-Mart, if it's good for the Clintons, if it's good for 50 of the most powerful members of Congress, if it's good for Citigroup, it's good for us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/washington/08lobby.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
By ERIC LIPTON and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
WASHINGTON — There have been all-expense paid trips to Colombia for more than 50 members of Congress, featuring coffee tastings and dinner at a posh restaurant inside an old Spanish fort. The Colombian president has visited Washington to make personal appeals. Major corporations like WalMart and Citigroup are taking up the cause. And former Clinton administration officials have landed lucrative lobbying contracts.
Gee, with a cast of characters like this, I just know this is going to be a good deal for the people this group is most concerned with; just folks.
Oh yeah, we're going to make out like bandits on this deal. One thing I have learned is, if it's good for Wal-Mart, if it's good for the Clintons, if it's good for 50 of the most powerful members of Congress, if it's good for Citigroup, it's good for us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/washington/08lobby.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
