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Two of Sen. John McCain's top advisers and fundraisers are among several Republican and Democratic presidential campaign officials whose lobbying firms have been paid more than $15 million by foreign governments since 2005. The firms of McCain senior adviser Charlie Black, who until recently was the chairman of Washington-based BKSH & Associates, and campaign co-chairman Thomas G. Loeffler, who heads the Loeffler Group in San Antonio, received millions of dollars lobbying the White House, Congress and others as agents of nearly a dozen foreign clients in recent years. [snip] c Rob Allyn, head of the Dallas-based Allyn & Co., a...

MEXICO CITY - The inauguration of President Felipe Calderon provides new opportunities, not just for a country struggling with crime and poverty, but also for Texas leaders and businesses hoping to expand trade and make new political connections. Among the many U.S. dignitaries who came to see the transition of power were Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and former President George Bush. Their presence underscored the importance of the relationship between the two countries, but also the challenges ahead as the two nations grapple with rising crime along the border, illegal immigration and the prospect of a...

President Vicente Fox has rehired the Texas PR man and political consultant who quietly helped engineer his election victory in 2000. This time, though, he wants Rob Allyn & Co. to put the brakes on what many Mexicans see as growing anti-immigration, anti-Mexican sentiment in the United States....ALLYN, WHO ALSO WORKED ON BUSH'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS, now faces a bigger challenge with the migration issue.... ..."Our focus is on public opinion, which influences policy outcomes in Congress," said Allyn, 46, who grew up in Huntington Beach and moved to Texas when he was in high school. "There is a huge misperception...

Recently, Mexico's President Vicente Fox retained the services of a former advisor to President George W. Bush in order to help in imposing the Mexican agenda on upcoming legislation to toughen border security and illegal immigration laws. Rob Allyn, who served Bush in his run for the Texas governorship and later his run for the US presidency, is now working for the Mexican president as his public relations consultant. Allyn heads one of the largest PR firm in the US, Allyn & Company. Allyn's PR firm is also linked to Fleishman-Hilliard, a self-avowed communications firm for gay and lesbian groups...

(AXcess News) New York - The Mexican government is initiating a far-reaching investigation. It's not an investigation into the rampant corruption within all levels of its government. And it's not an investigation into the Mexican crime gangs, drug traffickers and human smugglers. No, the target of this intense investigation -- one that's being trumpeted by the usual anti-Americans in the US news media -- is the killing of an illegal alien by a US Border Patrol agent defending himself. A former Bush advisor, Rob Allyn, is helping Presidente Vincente Fox to use the illegal alien's death to again draw attention...

The Mexican government is initiating a far-reaching investigation. It's not an investigation into the rampant corruption within all levels of its government. And it's not an investigation into the Mexican crime gangs, drug traffickers and human smugglers. No, the target of this intense investigation -- one that's being trumpeted by the usual anti-Americans in the US news media -- is the killing of an illegal alien by a US Border Patrol agent defending himself. A former Bush advisor, Rob Allyn, is helping Presidente Vincente Fox to use the illegal alien's death to again draw attention to what Mexicans believe is...

In a move that has many proponents of tough US border security and illegal immigration reforms scratching their heads in puzzlement, Mexican President Vincente Fox recently retained the services of a well-known Republican strategist to help stop the rising tide of public outcry over poor border security and rampant illegal immigration. President Fox reportedly rehired the public relations man and GOP political consultant who is credited with helping Fox win the presidency in 2000. Fox wants Rob Allyn to curtail what he perceives as a growing anti-immigration political juggernaut, especially when it comes to illegal aliens from Mexico. When the...

MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox has rehired the Texas public relations man and GOP political consultant who quietly helped engineer his election victory in 2000. This time, Fox wants Rob Allyn & Co. to put the brakes on growing anti-immigration, anti-Mexican sentiment in the United States. -- snip -- After the July election, Allyn told the Dallas Morning News he hid his work for Fox because he didn't want to be a political liability. Mexicans are sensitive to foreign interference, especially involving the United States. -- snip --

Rob Allyn ...A longtime Republican strategist, Mr. Allyn has found himself in the cross hairs of conservative critics in the last week after signing a contract with Mexico's foreign ministry to lead a campaign to strengthen the country's image in the United States. A CNN anchor asked Mr. Allyn whether Mexico was "dabbling in U.S. policy" by hiring him as a marketer. Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, describing Mexico as a "corrupt, chaotic country" with 40 percent unemployment (it is closer to 4 percent) told him in another interview that he had his work cut out for him... Mr. Allyn's...

GOP STRATEGIST IS TAKING HEAT FOR TAKING MEXICO AS CLIENT... Mexican government has taken out ads urging Mexican workers to denounce rights violations in the United States. It also is hiring an American public relations firm to improve its image and counter growing U.S. concerns about immigration. The American public relations firm recruited by a foreign government to organize an international campaign against a U.S. effort to protect its national borders is Allyn & Company. This company is organizing an international PR campaign to shame the United States and to attack its efforts to reform its immigration policies in favor...