Hey, I forgot Scott brown was a lobbyist! Lessig didn't, though...

[genwah]

Remember that Incumbent Senator Brown who lost to Elizabrth Warren? He got lost and is now running for Senate from New Hampshire against Jim Rubens. His campaign has been trying to get Lawrence Lesig to quit calling Brown a lobbyist on account of Senator=speak being better than regular English. I take it Mr. Reed’s outrage is triggered by the Senate’s regulations of what constitutes being a “lobbyist” for purposes of the Senate rules. I hadn’t received the memo that explained that the English language is now regulated by the rules of the United States Senate. If there is such a memo, they should send it to The Hill too.

I really don't want Scott Brown in the Senate with Elizabeth Warren. It would seem like such a waste of our money from the last time.

[tanyev]

1. LOL, Scotty is just drawing more attention to it by whining about it.

[karynnj]

2. Completely agree here and the more it is heard, the more it really is believed

Like any similar person, it was exactly Brown's connections from his time in the Senate that the company was buying. How else do you explain a job, with no real fixed hours, that pays the money this did? His previous legal work was as a real estate lawyer and as a JAG during the small amount of time he did his annual work. NONE of this made him an expert on any legal area - something that could have justified paying him a lot of money.

The more he complains, the more people, not connected to Shaheen, should get out what his compensation was and ask what exactly he did for the company ... if not connecting them to decision makers which gets pretty close to lobbying. The thing is this does not really depend on what "lobbying" means. What people dislike about the resolving door is that people who leave government make big bucks selling access to those who remain. (This argument over definition does not work in his favor.)