Herman Cain’s Campaign Manager to Corporate Lobbyists: ‘Get a New Job’
At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend, Republic Report ran into Mark Block, Herman Cain’s campaign manager and cigarette-puffing star of one of the most infamous ads of the 2012 election so far. We asked him about Cain’s signature “9-9-9 plan” to reform and simplify the federal tax code and how it might be stymied by corporate lobbyists looking for breaks and exemptions on behalf of their powerful clientele:
JILANI: Looking at the 9-9-9 plan, I think one of the biggest obstacles to passing it…are big corporate lobbyists. You know, big companies that want their own carve-out, their own loophole, their own exemptions …What sort of message do you have to those corporate lobbyists…who will be fighting this plan?
BLOCK: Get a new job, simple as that. I think you hit something right on the head. 9-9-9 is so simple, across the board, everybody pays their fair share. Probably 52 percent of lobbyists in Washington, D.C. would be out of a job. So perhaps Obama’s unemployment rate would go up a little bit more.