Are you asking an honest question or making a ‘CAIN was never a Lobbyist” remark?
Either way, the answer is “Why yes he was.”
“From 1996, when he left the pizza company, until 1999, Mr. Cain ran the National Restaurant Association, a once-sleepy trade group that he transformed into a lobbying powerhouse”
I do not have a problem with lobbyists. Some are needed.
IT IS NEWT WHO DENIES HE IS A LOBBYIST....HE IS THE ONE RUNNING FROM THE TITLE....
Herman Cain has been successful in whatever he took on. He always makes lemonade out of lemons.
Mr. Cain ran the National Restaurant Association, a once-sleepy trade group that he transformed into a lobbying powerhouse”
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What was he lobbying for? What was his salary? How much of his work career the NRA was actually spent on lobbying and who did he lobby?
I guess Cain does have excellent experience in taking a once-sleepy trade group and transformed into a lobbying powerhouse! ALL in THREE YEARS!
GO HERMAN CAIN!
So you are saying the head of every business organization is a "lobbyist". This is stretching the definition. Every CEO of every big organization or company tries to get the laws beneficial to them passed. They are doing it for themselves, they are not hired guns and the primary purpose they are in their position is not lobbying. In fact The NRA, and most likely Godfathers Pizza, hired outside lobbyists. Newt, on the other hand, was most definitely a lobbyist. He was not trying to get laws passed for his own organizations, he was a hired gun who got paid for influencing politicians to support someone organizations he did not belong to. His only reason for doing it was the money he got paid. If the CEO of Freddie or Fannie talked to politicians about the laws they wanted passed, they would still not be lobbyists, they would merely be performing one of the functions of a CEO. Newt had no relationship to Freddie and Fannie except to influence politicians for money he was paid. He was a quintessential lobbyist. Cain was not.