Lockheed's Top Government Affairs Official Not Registered as Lobbyist

Lee Drutman was quoted in Politico about Robert Rangel's failure to register as a lobbyist:

“Sometimes people feel the label 'lobbyist' gives them a bad name,” said Lee Drutman, an expert on lobbying at the New America think tank. Rangel, he surmised, "probably saw himself going into a Rubio or Bush administration and probably figured whoever became president was going to carry on the Obama lobbying rule because of the optics of that.”

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The spirit of the law — that disclosure of who is influencing decisions that impact billions of taxpayer dollars is in the public interest — in this case is being violated, in Drutman's view.

“If [Rangel is] doing high-level strategic stuff, I guess he could technically not qualify as a lobbyist, but come on,” he said.