E-mail: Rich, saw your post on the Bloomberg story this morning, which contains many false and misleading conclusions. Following is a brief summary of an email the Boehner camp sent to Bloomberg this morning strongly objecting to the conclusions in their story:

Despite clear evidence to the contrary (that we gave you yesterday but of which you included none), today’s article attempts to link campaign contributions from Sallie Mae to John Boehner’s political action committee to legislation on federal student loans. Yesterday you approached us with a premise that Sallie Mae – while making political contributions to Boehner – successfully lobbied for the elimination of fixed-rate consolidation loans in the Higher Education Act. The opposite is true, as we pointed out clearly to you. While Sallie Mae did, in fact, lobby for a change in the consolidation loan interest rate, legislation approved by the House maintains the current law fixed rate structure. Yet the article very clearly attempts to draw the same conclusion by linking political contributions to legislation (by saying the contributions “came as the House Education and Workforce Committee, which Boehner chairs, prepared to write new legislation governing student loans.”) You are well aware that the student loan legislation approved by the House does NOT contain key provisions lobbied for by Sallie Mae, yet the story fails to mention that fact even though it was pointed out to you. This plainly does a real disservice not just to Mr. Boehner, but to the facts as well.
Why even ask us for comment then? It’s clear Bloomberg was going to try and make some ridiculous link between legislation and contributions even if the clear facts stood in the way.