Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who often claims to have 'fought' lobbyists, has a history of hiring several lobbyists onto his own staff, including this year.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss corporations lobbying on behalf of Beijing to maximize profit and the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war.and railed against them for having"too much power," has a history of hiring lobbyists to his own staff — including this year.
The op-ed built on Brown's previous remarks speaking out against lobbyists. In March, for example, the senator tweeted a video in which he slammedand politicians who are friendly to them, saying their actions caused the East Palestine train derailment and Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Months earlier, Brown touted on Twitter how he"took on" and"fought" corporate lobbyists to pass the Inflation Reduction Act.Most recently, Brown hired former lobbyist Logan Basch to be the digital director at his Capitol Hill office in Washington, D.C. According to Basch's LinkedIn page, he began the role in February.
Beyond Basch, at least three of Brown's former chiefs of staff had worked as lobbyists. Jack Dover, for example, served as Brown's chief of staff between January 2005 and January 2007 and as his senior adviser between January 2007 and January 2013, according to Legistorm.he donated nearly $7,000 to Brown's campaigns before joining his staff in 2005.
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