The birth of the Lobbyist The term Lobbyist was born into disrepute with mark of ink, a reporter in the latter eighteen hundreds, set to print, front page caption, "Sleaze a Lobbyist of intent " They are a sordid type, corrupt in caucus manor, a sheath of secrecy lurks darkness, behind recesses of Legislative chicanery, palm-greasing peddler's are those of Political persuasion. A bit of trivia the term Lobbyist never forthright found existence in the first amendment text for it's a phantom that dictates its will by Wall Street finical influence, the Lobbyist an apparition of a ghostly amendment, spend Billions with fraudulent intent