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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4693253" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020-campaign-lobbyist-money_n_5cc111dce4b0764d31dc8586" target="_blank">Joe Biden Holding Kickoff Fundraiser At Comcast Exec&#039;s Home</a>&quot;Former Vice President <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a>’s <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/2020-election" target="_blank">2020 campaign</a> won’t accept donations from federal lobbyists ― but a fundraiser scheduled for the first day of his campaign also shows the limitations of such a pledge.Biden is set to attend a fundraiser Thursday night at the Philadelphia home of Comcast executive David Cohen, according to an invite first <a href="https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1121203315067490306" target="_blank">published</a> by Politico and later obtained by HuffPost. While Cohen is not a registered lobbyist, he does oversee the cable giant’s massive Washington lobbying operation, which spent more than $4 million and involved more than three dozen lobbying firms in the first quarter of 2019 alone.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4693253, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020-campaign-lobbyist-money_n_5cc111dce4b0764d31dc8586']Joe Biden Holding Kickoff Fundraiser At Comcast Exec's Home[/URL] "Former Vice President [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden']Joe Biden[/URL]’s [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/2020-election']2020 campaign[/URL] won’t accept donations from federal lobbyists ― but a fundraiser scheduled for the first day of his campaign also shows the limitations of such a pledge. Biden is set to attend a fundraiser Thursday night at the Philadelphia home of Comcast executive David Cohen, according to an invite first [URL='https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1121203315067490306']published[/URL] by Politico and later obtained by HuffPost. While Cohen is not a registered lobbyist, he does oversee the cable giant’s massive Washington lobbying operation, which spent more than $4 million and involved more than three dozen lobbying firms in the first quarter of 2019 alone." [/QUOTE]

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