Lobbyists adjust to stimulus rules that shut them out
Like a parent walking a child to school, Howard Marlowe could only take his client so far before he just had to trust that the meeting with the vice president’s office would go OK. The client, the mayor of Avalon, N.J., was seeking money from the $787 billion stimulus to repair the borough’s eroding beaches.
As Avalon’s lobbyist, Marlowe would typically help sell government officials on why money would be a good investment. Afterward, he’d ...
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