A senior Obama campaign official tells Politico‘s Glenn Thrush that Klein is “no longer associated with the campaign” and that “the minute he became a lobbyist, he stopped raising money for the campaign.” But that was news to Klein, who seemed to have found out through the media that he was thrown under the Obama campaign bus.
“A former Florida congressman who has been a top campaign bundler for President Obama said Wednesday he is taking immediate steps to de-register as a lobbyist for a Florida-based airline so he can continue to raise funds for the president,” NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports this afternoon. Isikoff adds: