From Newsweek:
Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, has remained the treasurer and a corporate director of his lobbying firm this year, despite repeated statements by campaign officials that he had ended his relationship with the firm in 2006, according to corporate records.
The McCain campaign this week criticized news stories disclosing that, since 2006, Davis's firm has been paid a $15,000-a-month consulting fee from Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage giant recently put under federal conservatorship. The stories, published Tuesday by NEWSWEEK, The New York Times and Roll Call, reported that the consulting fees continued until last month even though, according to two sources familiar with the arrangement, neither Davis nor anybody else at his firm did any substantial work for the payments.
Oops! Davis did not sever his relationship with his lobbying firm.
H/T to TPM.
Can you believe these people? It's the arrogance that gets me: it doesn't matter if we lie, we'll just keep lying until the people are too exhausted to care! And we don't have to know what we're talking about, either! (See the Couric/Palin interview. OMG.)
ReplyDeleteWhat next, I ask you. Because right now it looks like McCain doesn't even want to win. But I don't believe that. Not for a minute.
Can this campaign get any more shameless?
ReplyDelete"It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where — where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is — from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to ... to our state," she said.
ReplyDeleteEloquence the likes of which is not often heard.