{"id":2389,"date":"2009-01-24T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2009-01-24T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T23:30:37","slug":"whats-the-point-of-the-lobbyist-ban-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/24\/whats-the-point-of-the-lobbyist-ban-then\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Point of the Lobbyist Ban, Then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of holding up lobbyists as some inherently evil group.\u00c2\u00a0 I think running against them is mostly a stunt, and I think broad prohibitions against them entering government is a bad idea.\u00c2\u00a0 That said, if you&#8217;re going to make a point of adopting rules against lobbyists, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/27132\/bill-lynn-will-probably-be-confirmed-now-cravenly\">you really should stick to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>While I&#8217;m not a fan of the rhetorical device of slamming lobbyists, I&#8217;m absolutely appalled by the revolving door.  As such, I&#8217;m completely okay with fairly severe post-employment bans on lobbying agencies of which you were previously a part.  Not a perfect solution, but it&#8217;s better than nothing.  (Thought I&#8217;d made this part of my original post, but somehow bungled it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of holding up lobbyists as some inherently evil group.\u00c2\u00a0 I think running against them is mostly a stunt, and I think broad prohibitions against them entering government is a bad idea.\u00c2\u00a0 That said, if you&#8217;re going to make a point of adopting rules against lobbyists, you really should stick to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}