McCain Adviser Black Goes Back To Lobbying

Charles R. Black Jr., a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is returning to his former profession: lobbying.

Mr. Black will go back to his former lobbying firm, BKSH and Associates, and will resume his old title of chairman. The firm, a subsidiary of WPP Group, announced the rehiring of Mr. Black to its employees on Friday.

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Comments

[dagnome27]

scary thought: imagine where he MIGHT have wound up in the government had Mc.Cain won??

[Bitsko]

Charles Black would be a "big advantage" to the greedy megacorporations.

[sueno]

He's ready to go back to representing "rogue" nations and "dictators" again-
He'll start making money off people trying to "harm" the U.S.
What a bum-

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

Charles Black was the Darth Vader of the finally uprooted NeoCon Executive Branch Control Empire. His lobby firm was the cash drawer for access to the "right" people. I bet you will find his fingerprints all over the KBR monopoly on contract issuance for the Iraq War.

[dramaunfolding]

Maybe he can get a job at Tom Dashel's wife's new lobbying firm.

[Bitsko]

It appears that in D.C. every politician's spouse is a lobbyist. Nice little racket they have going.

[Zhonni]

Of course, he intented to do that anyways so he can rake in the big bucks with McCain in the White House.

Sorry Black, we didn't buy your arguement of Change.

[Francis 3]

He was a lobbyist, afterall. Why is this really a story?

Yes, McCain was a hypocrite for claiming to be a lobby-free maverick and hiring this scmuck. Got it. But on the flip side, had McCain won (thank YHWH he didn't) I'm sure some of President Elect Obama's advisors, like Shapiro and Mercado, would return to their day jobs, too. And Black would have a cushy office in the WH.

[GrainOSand]

Lobbying -- Lobbying is the practice of influencing decisions made by government. It includes all attempts to influence legislators and officials, whether by other legislators, constituents or organized groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying


Lobby -- to promote (as a project) or secure the passage of (as legislation) by influencing public officials
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lobbyist

Two questions always apply to the act of lobbying -- how and what for. The how includes a third question in that how you go about lobbying will be greatly influenced by who you associate with in your lobbying practice. That is -- whom you lobby for in practice. Now if you lobby such that the nation is made weaker to the benefit of some, then what you are lobbying for cannot be considered worthy based on that outcome. Industry has a right to self-interest. A business, whose self-interest robs the public, injures the individual, erodes the sanctity of the life-sustaining environment, or in any way can be credibly deemed counter to the interest of the governing idea or basic decency, is not an interest worth lobbying for and is thus unacceptable. The how of lobbying -- also includes, not bribing, not blackmailing, not smearing, and not lying to affect the desired outcome. A business should not be an enemy of the aggregate such that favor need be given to allow assault on the aggregate for profits sake.

[SUIGENEROUSLA]

I forgot.........Sen Dole, Sen Stevens, Sen Sununu and all those important committee chairs he is so close to -- money well spent JP Mogan, US Air, ATT -- perhaps an object lesson?

[SUIGENEROUSLA]

And who is he going to lobby? President McCain? VP Palin?

[hilary916]

Gee. Who'da thunk it?

[bob8788]

It Just goes to show how stupid John McCain was , I am so glad Obama was able to call him on it

I really wonder how people like John McCain, George Bush and all the other idiots I hear and see on tv get to where they are with their brain cells, HOW?

http://www.barackobamacans.blogspot.com

[NotMcCain]

Where Black goes, can his buddy Mark Penn be far behind?

I hope Hillary as SOS isn't going to give these creeps access again.....

[FogBelter]

You thought he would open a Subway franchise, maybe?

[cycle3man]

Another seamless transition!