Sunday, June 15, 2008

Live by the lobbyist, die by the lobbyist

The NY Times had a story on lobbying and attempts to revise the foreign lobbying provisions that had the unfortunate result of revealing his campaign managers ties to the Kremlin and, according to ABC News, potential violation of the anti-espionage Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The McCain campaign is strongly denying the paper's reporting that in 2005, a White House National Security Council staffer called John McCain's Senate office to complain that Rick Davis' lobbying firm was "undercutting American policy on Ukraine" by representing a Kremlin-backed politician.

If the account of the NSC staffer's call is true, it suggests McCain should have known about the work by Davis' business -- but installed him as campaign manager anyway. McCain's campaign, which had earlier referred a New York Times reporter to McCain's Senate office, now disputes that such a phone call ever happened.
The Old Fart was saying something about vetting your people the other day but I guess he didn't really mean it.


// posted by montag @ 4:14 PM
Comments:
So Montag, you're still blogging! Saw you left a comment over at Badtux and found this site. I'm just writing to thank you again for all the posting of NYT op-ed columnists you used to do when the paper was restricting access. That meant a lot to me for about a year, mate!
# posted by Blogger Bukko Boomeranger : 7:42 PM
 

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