Visitor Logs Show Google’s Unrivaled White House Access
May 18th, 2016Via: watchdog.org:
A project examining White House visitor logs shows the Obama administration has extended an open door to Google.
Johanna Shelton, Google’s director of public policy — in effect, the company’s top lobbyist — has visited White House officials 128 times since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
To put that in perspective, senior lobbyists for other companies in the telecommunications and cable industry — including Comcast, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle and Verizon — have visited the White House a combined 124 times in the same span. (That data goes through October 2015.)
The Google Transparency Project, the work of Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to expose corporate influence on government, identified policy pushers for the 50 biggest lobbying spenders and counted how many times they appeared in the White House visitor logs.
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, spent $16.6 million on lobbying in 2015. That was the twelfth most of any company, and the most by a technology firm, just above AT&T’s $16.4 million and Comcast’s $15.7 million.
Anne Weismann, executive director of the Campaign for Accountability, told Watchdog.org those logs don’t reveal the discussion of the meetings, just who attended them.
“You don’t know what the meetings are about, but the fact that someone has that level of access at the White House is revealing,” she said. “It certainly suggests a level of influence.”
Oh snort, all that money spent on lobbying. And all the logs don’t show for what.
Methinks that history will reveal the legacy of the Obama, much like the Clinton and Bush time in the Oval office to be of the same canard.
Show me the money honey and all will be cool.
I for one would like Obama to get a really GOOS enema. Clear his guts and brains out so that he could remember all of the STUFF he promised to all his SHEEPLE. Go on a diamatameous earth cleanse so that he can have all of the hard poops he needs to rid his body and hopefully his mind and spirit of all of HIS UTTER FKUCING bullshit.
Sorry TO RANT, BUT WHEN I SEE ANOTHER FLUCKING PRESIDENT MAKING MONEY OFF OF THEIR TIME IN THEIR OFFICE….I AM PISSED OFF.