Great Choice, Senator McCain!
obsidianwings.blogs.comFound 5 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 36 seconds ago"Ironically, Goodyear was chosen for the post after the McCain campaign nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis. The prospect of choosing Manafort created anxiety in the campaign because of his long history of representing controversial foreign clients, including Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. More recently, he served as chief political consultant to Viktor Yanukovich, the former Ukrainian prime minister who has been widely criticized for alleged corruption and for his close ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin-a potential embarrassment for McCain, who in 2007 called Putin a "totalitarian dictator.
crooksandliars.com
's campaign had chosen to run the Republican National Convention this summer resigned his post on Saturday after a magazine reported that his firm had lobbied for the military junta that runs Myanmar .
The executive, Doug Goodyear, said in a statement that he was stepping down as the coordinator of the convention, which will be held Sept.
Found 4 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
democrats.org
This weekend, we learned that one of McCain's campaign managers (he has several) had ties to a firm had represented the Burmese military Junta. As a result of the media scrutiny, he was forced to resign. In addition, a McCain aide chosen (by McCain) to be in charge of running the GOP Convention also was also forced to resign for the same reason.
When his entire campaign is being run, at its highest levels, by lobbyists -- particularly when those lobbyists are conducting their lobbying business on the so-called "Straight Talk Express" bus, you can expect to see more of this kind of thing as the campaign goes on.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 41 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
raisingkaine.com
"It's fair to say that I did not win Miss Congeniality," Senator McCain said here earlier this week in a debate in South Carolina. "I've taken on the iron triangle: special interests, campaign finance and lobbying. I did not make a lot of friends."
John McCain: Portrayed by himself -- and also by the media, which loved/loves to fawn over McCain's supposed "straight talk" and "independence" -- as a heroic crusader against money in politics, 527s, "pay to play," special interest groups, lobbyists, etc.
Found 4 days, 17 hours, 10 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com
Three of the right wing extremists mentioned above were in the news, together again, this morning. Today's NY Times in a story called Official Chosen by McCain to Run Convention Resigns brings to light the relationship between right-wing Republicans and the brutal Burmese junta. The ill-starred Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-- first Larry Craig's romantic trysts in the airport toilets, then the GOP nomination descending on McCain by default and now the Myanmar connection-- was supposed to be run-- thanks to lobbyist-lovin' John McCain-- by Arizonan Doug Goodyear.
Found 4 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
ruthgroup.org
"The public relations executive whom Senator John McCain's campaign had chosen to run the Republican National Convention this summer resigned his post on Saturday after a magazine reported that his firm had lobbied for the military junta that runs Myanmar."
Goodyear Steps Down
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
burnedoverdistrict.blogspot.com
UPDATE: Via AmericaBlog , we learn that the Old Fart lost another lobbyist/campaign manager because of Myanmar. Or maybe they just dropped out to do some astroturfing .
Found 4 days, 10 hours, 38 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com
Fortunately, the New York Times reports today that Doug Goodyear, the man handpicked by McCain to help coordinate the GOP national convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in September had to resign after a Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff revealed that Goodyear's consulting firm, DCI, six years ago earned $348,000 from the military junta in Myanmar (formerly Burma), the repressive regime that until recently pulled a George W. Bush and spurned international offers of aid in the wake of the cyclone that killed countless tens of thousands of Burmans.
Found 4 days, 9 hours, 33 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
freedemocracy.blogspot.com
For five years boomers have been asking, "Why are the kids not in the streets screaming about the war the way we were?" The simple answer: no draft. But as Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais show in "Millennial Makeover," their book about the post-1982 American generation, that energy has been plowed into quieter social activism and grand-scale social networking, often linked on the same Web page.
Found 4 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
gayrightswatch.com
Regional campaign manager for McCain, Doug Davenport, also steps down due to ties to the DCI Group. Doug had run DCI's lobbying practice before signing on with McCain last month to run Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky and West Virginia for McCain. [ source ]
Found 4 days, 8 hours, 17 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/politics/11mccain.html
Found 4 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
thepage.time.com
Regional campaign manager for McCain also steps down due to ties to the DCI Group.
Found 4 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
