Quote of the Day
From my email today:
John McCain may try to claim that the past careers of his advisers are irrelevant, but look at this passage from today’s Washington Post article about Charlie Black, McCain adviser and chairman of lobbying firm BKSH and Associates…
But even as Black provide a private voice and a public face for McCain, he also leads his lobbying firm, which offers corporate interests and foreign governments the promise of access to the most powerful lawmakers. Some of those companies have interests before the Senate and, in particular, McCain’s Commerce Committee.Black said he does a lot of his work by telephone from McCain’s Straight Talk Express bus.
John McCain literally has a lobbyist for “corporate interests and foreign governments” working from the “Straight Talk Express.”
Where will they work from if he wins the White House? — Howard Dean
Same corrupt crap, different package.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
All too typical I’m afraid. And somehow I doubt that Hillary is too far removed from this type of politics, which is among the reasons I do not support her presidential bid.
On the plus side, if Obama gets the nomination, I think he will beat McCain and then hopefully this kind of crap will be a moot issue.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Obama also has lobbist as volunteer advisors just the same as Charlie Black is to McCain.
Dean is a hypocrite.
“Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the candidate does not disqualify Washington lobbyists from from endorsing or advising him”
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/07/sc_obama_backer_is_also_a_lobb_1.html
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
“Obama’s co-chair in New Hampshire, Jim Demers, is a state based lobbyist for the pharmaceutical and financial services industries amongst others. Michael Bauer, a member of Obama’s LGBT steering committee, is a state based lobbyist in Chicago. And in Nevada, Obama’s campaign also has three state based lobbyists who play[ed] senior advising roles in August last year. ”
Hodges and Shapiro aren’t the only federal lobbyists inside Obama’s campaign. The Washington Post previously reported that Moses Mercado, a veteran political adviser to the likes of Dick Gephardt’s former presidential bids, was negotiating last fall to become an adviser to Obama. Mercado was registered in Washington to lobby on behalf of several several corporate clients, including AT&T.
Mercado said today he ultimately decided to skip becoming a paid adviser and instead is volunteering his advice and time in hopes of sidestepping the questions about being a lobbyist on the Obama payroll. Mercado was departing today to Nevada to help Obama with that state’s caucuses.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/07/sc_obama_backer_is_also_a_lobb_1.html
Good for the Goose, Good for The Gander.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
There is plenty more easily obtained by this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Barack+Obama%2Blobbyist&hl=en
Perhaps Dean is just not internet savy but I know you guys are. You are no better than the GOP sheep you deride if you just suck up and spit out Deans talking points without fact checking them.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
It only matters if it’s a republican I guess. I guess if the media and the republicans teamed up to go after democrats the way they go after republicans they would come up with a shitload of goods on them as well. The problem is they aren’t as organized as the Media Matters group,etc….
But I guess moving ahead is better than getting left back in Junior High School.