Dan Coats: Lobbyist For Foreign Governments, Wants Senate Seat

10:34 am EST February 8th, 2010 | News | Comments Off

Look, I think Evan Bayh is basically a Republican senator anyways, but I’d rather not give a senate seat to Yemen.

Coats registered as a lobbyist for a foreign interest while he worked at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand in 2000 and 2001. According to lobbying disclosure documents, he contacted members of Congress trying to get them to invite the Indian prime minister to a joint session of Congress.

Coats only personally lobbied for India, according to the documents, but around the same time his firm also did foreign lobbying for several other countries, including the governments of Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.

Yemen isn’t exactly a country you want your name tied to right now, and the lobbying documentation provides Democrats with a ready-made attack ad to use against Coats.

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