This is the new avenue for political money. This keeps the names of the companies in front of the national party leaders. |
When you look at a corporate leader or a union leader, or a lobbyist, saying, why would they give $10,000, is it part of their lobbying plan for some type of access buying. It opens the whole arena up to questions in the public's mind. |
You don't know where the trip went. You don't know who went on it. You don't know if a lobbyist was on it. |
You're talking about standard operating procedure here in Washington suddenly being turned on its head and a key operator signing a plea agreement that he may have been involved in some kind of public corruption. |