'Creepy uncle Joe' launches presidential bid with fundraiser filled with corporate lobbyists and GOP donors
Over the
last few months, David Cohen, a Comcast executive who oversees the
telecom giant’s lobbying operation, has cut big checks to
Republican candidates while pushing to advance his company’s
regulatory agenda.
On
Thursday afternoon, however, Cohen will open his Philadelphia home to
host Joe Biden, helping the Democratic former vice president kick off
his bid for the White House.
Biden,
who announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination
Thursday morning, has depicted himself as the party’s standard
bearer. But he’s planning to roll out his campaign at an event
filled with others like Cohen, namely GOP donors and corporate
lobbyists.
Like
other Democratic candidates, Biden is launching his presidential bid
with a pledge to reject federal lobbyist cash. But the lobbyists
attending his Thursday fundraiser are either unregistered or
registered with state entities, not the federal system. As The
Intercept previously reported, Democratic contenders Beto
O’Rourke, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker have all leveraged the
same loophole to collect cash from corporate interests while pledging
to eschew funding from federal lobbyists.
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