<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<oembed>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<type>link</type>
	<objectid>94192</objectid>
	<title><![CDATA[McCain's Cronies:  Shining A Light On The Lobbyist Express]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christy-hardin-smith/mccains-cronies-shining-a_b_94192.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>John McCain's staff -- <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200013">campaign and Senate</a> -- is <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003714302">populated with lobbyists</a> who have worked for many of the very companies for which McCain is charged with holding accountable. <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2184893/">His current Senate chief of staff, Mark Buse</a>, went from directing McCain's Commerce Committee staff to being a telecom lobbyist and then back to running McCain's Senate office. In the legal business, we call this <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1160453,00.html">an appearance of impropriety</a>. </p> <p>For John McCain, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200802280001">this appears</a> to...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-04-08T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
</oembed>
