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Column: A White House tightly bound to lobbyists

Vince Coglianese Contributor
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Spokesmen in glass White Houses shouldn’t throw stones.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took such a liking to this weekend’s NY Times story on House Minority Leader John Boehner and his lobbyist friends that Gibbs has posted about it on Twitter four times, beginning with one saying, “Headline says it all…A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists.”

The story is worth reading, as is Byron York”s blog post on some interesting scuttlebutt about its original version making silly claims, but this White House is hardly in the position to chastise others for tight bonds to lobbyists.

Here are some of the strands of the Obama White House’s intense ties to lobbyists…

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