http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/dnc-no-more-con.html

It's been less than two days since he crossed the delegate threshold to become the Democratic presidential nominee and Sen. Barack Obama's mark on the party is already being felt.

On Good Morning America Thursday, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos reported "the Democratic National Committee will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists, will no longer take contributions from PACs" in keeping with Obama's well-publicized policy.

Of course, Obama left out a number of caveats. According to his campaign’s de facto standards, taking money from state and municipal lobbyists is acceptable, employing “former” lobbyists on the campaign is okay, as is having lobbyists as unpaid advisers, and taking money from lobbyists wives is acceptable. The Center for Responsive Politics has reported that Obama has taken $85,000 directly from state and municipal lobbyists or the family members of federal lobbyists.

Here's a nice article from The National Review (since we get lot's of Daily Kos posts, I find this fair)

I didn't post anything from Daily Kos. NRO is a right-wing rag that constantly gets their facts wrong. You can't do any better than that? That's your idea of "fair"?

My idea of "fair" is noting that something is from a biased source, which I did.

http://www.worldofkj.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=41047&p=1163612#p1163612

As to the article at hand, it was nice of you to dismiss it out of hand with a sweeping generalization.

Peter Bynoe has pledged to raise between $100,000 and $200,000 for the senator. Bynoe was an Illinois state lobbyist who is on the federal government’s list of people who helped raise money for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich through Chicago political rainmaker Tony Rezko. When he wasn’t helping Obama with his shady housing purchase, Rezko was busy arranging for kickbacks for Blagojevich’s wife and other senior officials in Blagojevich’s administration, which has also been the target of a number of unrelated Federal corruption investigations.

Mike Bauer has pledged to raise between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama. Another Illinois state lobbyist, Bauer was suspended from practicing law for improperly taking $300,000 from a family trust fund. According to the Chicago Tribune, “During the same time he was taking money from the trust fund, his donations to national and local candidates totaled $300,000.” But Obama didn’t take issue with Bauer’s unethical conduct or distance him from the campaign. “Mike has been a leader in the community and a good supporter of our campaign and many others. He is working through this difficult, private challenge with his family, and we wish them well,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton told the Tribune.

If it was a simple editorial, I would not have posted it.