Obama breaks his 'No Lobbyist' vow -- again

To rousing applause, Barack Obama formally announced this afternoon that the Democratic National Committee will follow his lead and begin refusing donations from registered lobbyists and special-interest political action committees.

"They do not fund my campaign," the presumptive Democratic nominee told a small-town southwest Virginia crowd, after delivering a standard refrain that blames drug and insurance interests for blocking universal health care. "They will not fund our party. And they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I'm President of the United States."

Munoz was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, where she supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels.  Munoz was heavily involved in the immigration battles in Congress in recent years, and is now a principal liaison to the Hispanic community for the administration.
 
Before joining the administration, Frye served as general counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she directed the group's workplace fairness program.  The White House blog said Frye, an expert on employment law, had worked with federal agencies as a technical expert and had testified before Congress and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission on federal enforcement of employment discrimination laws.