WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Obama, who campaigned against lobbyists’ influence, opened the door for them Tuesday to work for him if they sign an ethics code that restricts their role in and out of government. Lobbyists can work for Obama’s transition if they stop their advocacy efforts and avoid working in any field that they lobbied on in the last year. They also must pledge not to lobby the Obama administration on the same matters they focused on during the transition for a year after leaving Obama’s service. The ethics policy allows Obama to hire any of the some 22,000 federally registered lobbyists who could be valuable assets because of their government experience, even though Obama railed against their influence on the campaign trail.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]