John Mccain Lobbyist

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FARA's Failings: Or How The DOJ Fails To Monitor Foreign Lobbying

Zephyr Teachout | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home

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While Obama burnishes his diplomatic credentials abroad, it's becoming clear that people like Bush bundler Stephen Payne are conducting all but unregulated diplomacy and shaping foreign policy.

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Sunlight Foundation Investigator Exposes Corruption in McCain Campaign

Craig Newmark | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Hey, this has been covered a little in the press, but I just found that the investigator never got credit, so here we go:On April 15, Anupanama Naraya...

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McCain, Iran, and the Jewish Vote

Ira Forman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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McCain and the bully boys on the right employ a strategy to paint Obama as weak on Iran and an enemy of the Jewish community. They use "guilt by association" to scare Jewish voters.

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Let McCain Be McCain

Craig Newmark | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

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McCain is not "confused"-- not in the way the media means, anyway. It's just hard to remember scripted lines and the arguments they make when they go against your better judgment.

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New Questions Over McCain Campaign Chief's Ties To Ukraine

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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How much does John McCain know about his campaign manager's lobbying history and potential current business interests inside Ukraine -- and when did h...

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

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While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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John McCain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

We once again have a Republican nominee who is a war hero, personable and engaging, with a long Senate career, who is so out of sync with the times that his campaign feels stillborn. It's Doleja vu all over again.

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Mr. Biz Whiz

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business

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By flip flopping on the constitutionality of the NSA's surveillance program, and giving key telecom lobbyists prominent play in his campaign, McCain shows that he, too, can be bought.

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Sing-along: Lobbyists, Lobbyists, oh Johnny's Lobbyists

David Donnelly | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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McCain's campaign doesn't just have any old 115 lobbyists working for him. He's got some of the worst abusers of the pay-to-play and influence-peddling in Washington, DC.

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McCain's '97 Lobbyist Bill Would Cripple Current Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Senator John McCain has a lobbyist problem. This past week, as several aides resigned because of their work representing unsavory governments, his cam...

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Open Letter to John McCain's Campaign

David Donnelly | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

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With 115 lobbyists raising money for or staffing your campaign, we believe that last weekend's revelations about two staff members' work promoting the military junta in Myanmar are just the tip of the iceberg.

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What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

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Who Is Hillary Now?

Mona Gable | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Hillary's desperation for blue-collar votes and her tiresome attacks on Obama are leading her down some awfully treacherous trails.

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John McCain Is A Big F*cking Whore

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

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McCain is an embarrassment of contradictions: he pretends to be a proponent of political reform when in fact he chronically dips into the lobbyist cookie jar.

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John McCain's Ethical Double Standards

Time | MICHAEL SCHERER | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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The U.S. senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real ...

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McCain Campaign Has 23 Telecom Lobbyists

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of "special interest lobbyists," yet dozens of lobbyists have political and ...

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McCain's Ties To Lobbyists: $765,000 Alone From Telecommunications Lobbyists

Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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USA Today has a new article detailing John McCain's ties to telecommunications lobbyists. The article points out one of John McCain's major inconsiste...

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Lobbyist To Run McCain's Hill Effort

Politico | Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

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Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with c...

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Bill Kristol: Pinhead

Sean Carman | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

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Kristol's argument on why Obama doesn't wear a flag pin ("Flag-gate!") is just so unbelievably, insidiously stupid: The man is a 50-year-old fifth grader.

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McCain & The "Liberal Media" Endorsements

Ari Melber | Posted 02.26.2008 | Media

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Some top journalists say that newspapers should just end endorsements altogether.

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The Beginning of the End of John McCain

Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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The New York Times story has the potential to echo through this most crucial part of McCain's winning coalition, with evidence of government corruption and a rejection of "family values."

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You Can't Spell Congress Without a "K"

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics

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The Hill report that lobbying revenues were up across the board in 2007, despite the ethics and lobbying overhauls the Democrats instituted with much fanfare.

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"Friends" Video Highlights McCain's Lobbyist Ties

The Real McCain | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics

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Demand John McCain stop his lobbyist fundraising You said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to." Yet you have 59 lobbyist...

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Former Paxson Exec Denies McCain Meeting

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to t...

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NYT Public Editor Faults McCain Story

New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 02.23.2008 | Media

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BILL KELLER, the executive editor of The Times, said the article about John McCain that appeared in Thursday's paper was about a man nearly felled by ...

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