Rick Davis, McCain's Campaign Manager, Benefited As Unregistered Lobbyist

NY Times:

Sorting out the lobbying entanglements of his campaign advisers is proving to be a messy business for Senator John McCain....

In 2005, Mr. Davis was registered as a lobbyist for corporate clients like the telecommunications company Verizon. Under the campaign's new rules, issued by Mr. Davis on Thursday, lobbyists who are currently registered either for American companies or for foreign governments or businesses cannot be employed by the campaign. They must also disclose their lobbying work even if they are working for Mr. McCain on a part-time, voluntary basis.

But while Mr. Davis took a leave from Davis Manafort in 2006, the company has developed a specialty in recent years in a type of lobbying for which firms do not have to register -- namely, representing the interests abroad of foreign politicians and businessmen.

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Comments

[Wolfwoman]

Everone who thinks McCain is an honest man, say AYE!

[BWonka]

{{{crickets}}}

[DennyCrane]

I wish the MSM would give this more attention. Never mind the hypocrisy of someone who's known for straight-talk express and campaign finance reform, when you're being lobbied by every special interest group, the American people ought to know about it. Instead, we have a media who's in the tank for McCain. I've lost count how many times they call him a maverick. He's anything but that.

[Muzikal203]

smh, I'm starting to think there never WAS a "Straight Talk Express" to start with.

[zigzag1]

It was the "Straight Crock Express"

[jubo]

Yup; The Strung talk express alright.

[TheKnownTruth]

This is a clear case of a candidate on the payroll of multiple companies. Lots of companies have a piece of McCain including his wife's. That's why she will not release her tax returns. She's playing fast and loose to her husbands' campaign benefit...­..

Smell the fish....

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Be gone, damn lobbyists, lampreys, pimps, and creatures of the darkness!

[robXdion]

McCain is going to look back longingly when all he had to worry about were Huckabee and Romney.