REMEMBER ALL THE FUSS ABOUT THE CLINTON LIBRARY?

I recall the wingnuts raising a stink about who made contributions. Will they make a stink about this?

President George W Bush lobbyist in ‘cash for access’ row
From The Sunday Times
Daniel Foggo
July 13, 2008

A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.

Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s Republican party in recent years, said he would arrange meetings with Dick Cheney, the vice-president, Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, and other senior officials in return for a payment of $250,000 (£126,000) towards the library in Texas.

Payne, who has accompanied Bush and Cheney on several foreign trips, also said he would try to secure a meeting with the president himself.

“The exact budget I will come up with, but it will be somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with about a third of it going directly to the Bush library,” said Payne, who sits on the US homeland security advisory council.

Payne said the balance of the $750,000 would go to his own lobbying company, Worldwide Strategic Partners (WSP).