washington post has a terrific article today about obama administration and who
is visiting them in the white house the sacred buildings and set up
and member president obama lombardi lobbyist from joining his administration
and banned them from advisory board strap executive branch
so seems like well okay he's banned the lobbyists
from working there
but not from visiting
in fact the visit very very often now but in the past
president mahmud cities in the most respect
adminstration ever
uh... so when people ask for the visitor logs he said jim wright
threat to sue me
so they did
he lost a lawsuit
so that's why we're getting
uh... and record for the first time of people revisit visiting the white house
but oh it's far house right
for every administration of course we should have a
laga people visited to see who's trying influence our politicians and most
importantly our president right well when we do find out well it's an
interesting list
so let me give you some examples we watched impose article
those lobbyists marshall maps
he has visited
roughly uh... two dozen times
and he's representing oliver this biotechnology industry organization
general mills
beef products incorporated
shantanu used by that time
alright so gee i wonder if where they may be in favor of food safety at war
one beat
you know a little lacks the regulations of food safety when it comes to the
safety
or in the case of the obesity temperament one influences saleby so so
bad
biotech companies have gotten tremendous favors
from the old bombing administration these are all of course
while coincidences
patten's us on the drugs that extended to twelve years monopolies
one they never time for five years the seven to twelve years
that gift brought to you i'm sure having nothing to
for the lobbies that were
you know coming in there
endlessly
to represent them in the white house
tim hannigan said a lobbyist is visited thirty times he represents comcast
teaser international bumper
is member all
that coalition of for-profit colleges remember of course of our ministry
should famously
i propose to cut off
and fair regulations on for-profit colleges
and then back home after and or me of democratic lobbyists came in
to talk to them
in that and they did almost no change whatsoever for the for-profit colleges a
pistol making
ekta reverie at and out of money
and the list goes on twenty protest that was on the most connected
uh... lobbyists in washington is visited twenty seven times he represents
too many corporations the less
and then of course you get regular democratic uh...
special interest groups like the a_f_l_c_i_o_ that's labor of their had
those same illa visiting fifty times
they give a ton of money to democrats do
i want take money out of politics 'cause i don't want the unions to have
uh... extraordinary influence inordinate influence
but i also want corporations that have inordinate influence
when the democrats say yea i wish they were corporate impose which love momo
say anyway
but we should figure you know it was a doesn't make sense
when a written republicans say oh we should take away you know it was pretty
poor but it was amazing the last sentence
now we got to get rid of the all the influence of money in politics
obviously we have not
and then finally hate are they not merciful they also actually talked some
obvious that actually care about
or interest missus orcas leadership conference on civil and human rights and
laura murphy is america civility represents an arsenal liberties union
and uh...
the were also represent
at least some
you know fighting for rights have also gone in the white house to be fair
uh... overall this is steve you a sense that perhaps uh...
the white house is paying attention to the lobbyists and that
we have really clean things up
alcoholics of course it does
now had is that a fact that sayings and how they're on
purvi example of a disconnect that gregory osco was their head of the
nuclear regulatory commission
and he is stepping down
because the nuclear industry
went nuclear on
acting fat
they decided well that's that's not playing well
yes she wants to safety
regulations
one of these it was so mad at him for is after the fukushima meltdown
he said hey wait a minute let's review of our safety regulations to make sure
that everything is in line
they like howdy value
well fukushima doesn't mean anything of course we don't have to be
safe with our nuclear plants what
so they cartoon for destruction now
a lot of four members of the commission
are uh... what they call
industry friendly
as another way of saying total and autre sellouts
this is having capture these different there
commissions
so it's close to the governors looking out for us why anybody who's looking out
for us is forced to step down and arrest the commission is industry from
so one of the guys is a democratic commissioner bill magli
as a wild coincidence uh... he of course
used to represent the same company
that did uh... nuclear plants at fukushima
buddies is going to wear two pair promoters say it was here in america all
perfectly safe
now this form a government
his job is to make sure that we don't look into that there's alice when who
was use the g_o_p_ senate staffer
uh... and he work with mad would to go after yachts cohen taken down
and uh... he's now the top motley is for the nuclear industry uh... again another
wild wild coincidences
so on ya so they released
so-called dead
was not information visit was in backed up by any evidence at all which is a
smear campaign
saying that he had
acted and abusive way towards women
so that when they say oh my god that's a serious charge was travis non non no
present evidence presented whatsoever
who cares
it's a politics of personal is fresh and destroy it
at all-cause in fact
the former staffer
uh... democratic staffers says that exactly's is quote
this is the only underbelly of large corporate lobbying
it really is fight any means necessary
so if there is even one diana five-member commission
who is a sewing after the industry
he must be eliminated
and he wants
now they say he had another problem which is that he was put in my harry
and harry doesn't want nuclear waste to go to you come out and in navarre
that's true harry doesn't want that he did put him in the place
and on that issue yachts goes well with harry
i have no opinion on that issue whether she going about or somewhere else
i have no love for harry if you said to me yes was arriving on that i would
definitely listen to you
but that's not why they were moved in they remove them because the actually
one new safety regulations
but one as a former and other senior democratic aide
is is what he said off the record
mag within the industry hey greg we go to step down
physically he was put on the commission by reed who's inky yuka
and easier to be a research do you know what they're fuckin right
that's exactly what he's put on their bought
that commission
and that it means you see were complete and total captives
of the nuclear industry
one
and the same
to this is what happens
when lobbyists visit
places like the white house and capitol hill over and over again
whose what happens on lobbyists say hey you can play ball you get a big time
paycheck once you leave the government
and yet the revolving door they go into the government how the government here
the government out of the government
into industry in a key collecting more and more money
and eventually the only guys left otherwise i'll play ball and that's
exactly was up on the nuclear industry dot
using receipt
using we're safe here late i give you a perv example again from today's news
uh... t_v_a_ nuclear operations
at brown's fairy
they are so unsafe they've got a
what they called uh... red flag a red safety rating
meaning that if there was a nuclear meltdown
they didn't have a way to stop it
he's got to be a bit of a problem right
so now our guys are supposed to go in and regulate that they're supposed to go
in hindu
that checkups
skin catch them to see if they're are red
so is that this is how it works
uh... press the stafford who's a t_v_ exam ice president and chief nuclear
officer says quote
t_v_a_'s begin to see the results with improvement apus but we're not there yet
we will not invited inspection team
until i have conference we are ready
i can give your ballpark estimate now when that will be
well that's awesome
i will all we allow the inspection at my plan
once were read
but i won't allow it now because we would fail
isn't it interesting the you're the one who gets this side
when you have
the inspections
and you say by the way we're nowhere near ready so it is a meltdown
god help us all
now the t_v_a_'s one of his confusing things a spoke of amendment has private
guys on there as well
but this stafford guy
as part of the nuclear energy institute he's on the executive committee
these are the guys who
have blocked the entire nuclear terror nuclear realtor commission
the separate also who just resigned today
so
he's making money off this they're all profiting off this
we gota inspect them at all how long were totally unsafe so we can have it
and uh...
mccray who is the regional administrator for the national radar commission
become agree says
i wouldn't say that were disappointed
it is what it is
well victor quite right
year plan is not at all safe
it's got a red flag on it
ed says this
has a port behind safety significance
has what it is so we're all bought
will work for that but i think people will work for the nuclear industry
so
place
this is one of small and sample
of how intensely cropped washington it's