Let's get to know MCCAIN'S Lobbyists - folks - THIS isn't "change"

GOP Players

You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. So who’s in McCain’s inner circle on this campaign? Lobbyists! At least 159 lobbyists that we’ve counted so far, filling roles from senior campaign management to high dollar fundraising. There are also plenty of eager Republicans with shady pasts vying for McCain’s time this year. Check out who wants more of the same Bush-McCain policies below.
Campaign Leadership

John McCain’s campaign isn’t just in the pocket of lobbyists — it is lobbyists. The upper levels of McCain’s operation are staffed with some of Washington’s most prolific influence peddlers.


Rick DavisRick Davis, campaign manager, has lobbied for Airborne Express and DHL on their controversial merger deal, as well as telecom companies Bell South, SBC, and Verizon.

Charlie BlackCharlie Black, senior advisor, lobbied for 109 clients, including Yukos Oil and Freddie Mac.

Randy ScheunemannRandy Scheunemann, senior foreign policy advisor, has had lobbying clients that include BPAmoco, and the NRA.

Frank DonatelliFrank Donatelli, the McCain campaign’s director at the RNC, has lobbied for 70 clients, including PhARMA, Pfizer, and ExxonMobil.

John Green, congressional liaison, has lobbied for 168 clients, including insurance industry trade groups, predatory lender Ameriquest, ChevronTexaco, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others.

Susan Nelson, the campaign finance director, has had at least 43 lobbying clients, including EADS/Airbus, American Health Insurance Plans, and Verizon.

Mark Buse, McCain’s Senate chief of staff, has lobbied for 62 clients, including ExxonMobil, Freddie Mac, and telecom interests like AT&T, TimeWarner and Cablevision, who have interests in front of McCain’s Commerce Committee.

Wayne Berman, another senior advisor, lobbied for 104 clients, including Fannie Mae, the American Petroleum Institute, ChevronTexaco, and the National Rifle Association.

Others in McCain’s Circle:

Carly FiorinaCarly Fiorina
Fiorina is an economic adviser to McCain who called the overseas out-sourcing of American jobs “right-shoring.” Funny that she got an opulent golden parachute when she bailed out of computer giant Hewlett-Packard after nearly running it into the ground.

Meg WhitmanMeg Whitman
As the former CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman’s estimated worth is over $1.4 billion. At a Silicon Valley fundraiser for John McCain, she tapped her mega rich buddies for $2.5 million in one night. That doesn’t sound like a campaign that will be accountable to the people.

Tim PawlentyTim Pawlenty
Dick Cheney handpicked Pawlenty as Minnesota’s next governor in 2001, and then Pawlenty racked up $600,000 in campaign ethics violations. Minnesota’s economy has suffered under the Pawlenty administration as well, with bankruptcies and unemployment on the rise.

Mitch McConnellMitch McConnell
As leader of the Republicans in the Senate, McConnell has led the charge to obstruct real progress on a wide range of issues, saving his most heroic efforts for denying benefits to veterans and opposing investigations into corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Norm ColemanNorm Coleman
Senator Coleman is a self-described “rah rah guy” for George Bush. That’s fitting — he was handpicked by Dick Cheney to run for Senate in 2001. Coleman’s suspiciously good deal on rent in a prime Capitol Hill apartment raises questions, too.

Michele BachmannMichele Bachmann
For two people who support George Bush and Dick Cheney an overwhelming amount of the time, Bachmann and McCain don’t seem to get along. After McCain said Bachmann would do the Lord’s work in the city of Satan at one of her campaign events, she admitted McCain wasn’t her pick for the nomination.

John BoehnerJohn Boehner
House Minority Leader John Boehner’s ties to lobbyists are so deep he handed out checks from Big Tobacco on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He’s also voted with George Bush over 94% of the time.

Mike DuncanMike Duncan
John McCain’s chairman of the RNC was close to Karl Rove in college, worked on George Bush’s first campaign, and raised money for his second one. But John McCain’s a maverick, right?

Maria CinoMaria Cino
Cino was a lobbyist before working as George Bush’s national political director in 2000. By 2002 she had been cited by Judicial Watch for politicizing her Department of Commerce job by speaking at a Republican fundraiser.

Jo Ann DavidsonJo Ann Davidson
Davidson chaired the gubernatorial campaign of Bob Taft in Ohio just a few years before he and several aides were convicted of ethics violations. She also ran George Bush’s reelection campaign in several Midwestern states.

Lincoln Diaz-BalartLincoln Diaz-Balart
Diaz-Balart is a self-proclaimed “firm believer in the Bush doctrine.” From supporting Bush’s disastrous Iraq policy to the president’s paltry record on job creation, Diaz-Balart is as out of touch as his boss. Like McCain, Diaz-Balart thinks our economy is “strong and growing stronger each day.”

Tom ColeTom Cole
Representative Cole is one of the few Americans who approves of George Bush’s work on stem cell research. But Cole’s no dummy — he’s advised Republican candidates to skip John McCain’s Republican Convention.

Richard BurrRichard Burr
The senator from North Carolina has voted with George Bush 88% of the time, and he was even one of the few to strongly back Harriet Miers’ failed nomination to the Supreme Court.

John EnsignJohn Ensign
Senator Ensign stayed true to Nevada when he went all in on Bush’s appointment of disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who he called “an incredible choice.” But betting on Bush 93% of the time is always a losing proposition.

Thelma DrakeThelma Drake
Drake isn’t afraid to speak her mind — except when it conflicts with George Bush’s. She actually cosponsored this year’s G.I. Bill to expand educational benefits to veterans, but when Bush came out against it, she voted no. And when she said George Bush’s economic results “speak for themselves,” she thought she was complimenting him.

Mark KirkMark Kirk
Kirk represents a moderate district in Illinois. His constituents can’t be too happy that George Bush’s White House “deputized” him to sell the war in Iraq, but that makes sense coming from a politician who predicted Donald Rumsfeld would make “an exceptional Secretary of Defense.”

Kevin McCarthyKevin McCarthy
Elected in 2006, McCarthy got right down to business as usual, holding the Republican party line on nearly every vote. He even champions Bush’s snake oil solution of tax cuts for the richest Americans as a real fix for the economy.


LINK:

http://justmoreofthesame.com/gop_players

"Follow the money."

"I'm gonna tell those Washington lobbyists their days of running things in Washington are over!" (paraphrasing) - so he's going to cuss out his own campaign managers for being big, fat, lobbyists? Fire them?

I DON'T THINK SO.

This information is too easy to look up and it's obvious McSame is relying on people being too STUPID and LAZY to do it.

That page is worth printing up and giving to people as we're canvassing and talking to/emailing people.

Do you think McCain is going to fire the lobbyists running his campaign? Or that when he runs the White House there'll be any FEWER of them there?

Pfffffft!

They're counting on complacency, stupidity, ignorance.

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:shrug: