John Boehner: Cry baby loser with envy problems
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In June 1995,
Boehner distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists on
the House floor as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco
subsidies. In a 1996 documentary by PBS called The People and the Power Game,
Boehner said "They asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before
we got to the end of the month and I complied. And I did it on the House floor,
which I regret. I should not have done. It's not a violation of the House
rules, but it's a practice that‘s gone on here for a long time that we're
trying to stop and I know I'll never do it again." Boehner eventually led
the effort to change House rules and prohibit campaign contributions from being
distributed on the House floor.
A September 2010 New
York Times story said Boehner was "Tightly Bound to Lobbyists" and
"He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former
aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman
Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R.J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.". -Wikipedia
