Glenn English Quotes
Lobby? That's certainly not what the position is all about.
The Congressman resigned to become the Vice President and General Manager of one of the nation's most powerful lobbying organizations.
Glenn English, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, OK), Vice President, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Quoted in The Washington Post, December 13, 1993
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Abramoff had bribed over 100 Congressional offices by a combination of campaign donations, paid golf junkets all over the world, free elegant meals at his own fancy Washington Restaurant, free tickets for the Congressmen, their staffs and their major constituents, to Concerts and sporting events including his own Skyboxes, and promises of future employment at very high salaries. Ironically, we was convicted of cheating some of his lobbying clients and did a jail term, but his “bribery” was technically usually legal. In addition to Abramoff, only one Congressman was charged and convicted of corruption, when many if not most had engaged in these corrupt practices. Congress makes the rules with loopholes so that what is bribery and corruption in any other setting is often not against the law if Congress is involved.
Barbour was himself a lobbyist before he became a politician.
Glenn Lee English Jr. is a U.S. Democratic politician who represented Oklahoma's 6th congressional district for 10 successive terms. English is currently the chief executive officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
