Posted on 02/20/2008 4:49:57 PM PST by Wallaby
Edited on 02/20/2008 5:05:45 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship.
Second that Mr. tiger Eye.
I tend to agree. Why would hire a legal behemoth like Bob Bennett if you were squeaky clean?
I was wishy washy on McCain, but now I am solid and breaking out the checkbook. The drive-bys should have a drive-by done to them.
NY Times? Sources that want to remain anonymous? Yawn.
Get back to me when they have sources that are willing to go on the record.
I’m to the point that when the NY Times comes out with its hysteria-generating headlines, I’ll simply wait a few days for the REST of the story to come out, because I know the NYT is “reporting” with an agenda. I don’t trust this once-great paper as a news source any more.
One of their commentators earlier said this could be the ‘macaca moment.’
They are squeezing it for all they can get out of it.
They are waiting for ‘more’ from the NYT.
They promised to continue the story the rest of the day and tomorrow. [oh yeh — well, at least it isn’t Aruba or Paris Hilton.]
He’s a loud mouth.
He’s doing the same thing Kerry did.
re: Hell no, this country is headed for a Muslim president that they deserve. At least he ain’t a Mormon!
Thank you.
These ‘conservatives’ would rather let socialists get ahold of troops on the ground and possibly not answer the next attacks, in hopes that ‘they’ll see’ and vote in a republican after. We can’t take a dumb*ss chance like that. I guess they don’t know what can happen in four or eight years... no clue, and obviously many who ‘sat out’ the last election haven’t got it either. I now understand why over 20 of our reps on the hill are stepping down, with fans like these. Have you seen any of them offering an alternative, advice, anything? We are where we are and there’s no choice here... whether we like it or not. Obviously, most of these will not vote, vote only for local races or vote for the enemies on the other side. In any case, except for those who vote in locals, I don’t see the point of their commenting period... if they don’t have ideas or offer something that can be done to put someone more conservative in that spot.
Not hard to see the people the despicable NYT are afraid of.
I remember reading on “Running John”, Amy Silverman’s web site on John McCain (reporter for Phoenix New Times), that McCain had been involved in some kind quid pro quo with the airlines, as well. This was back in 2000. I used to have all the John McCain articles bookmarked on my old computer, but I deleted them before setting up this one.
Mike Barnicle from the Boston Globe (among others) is questioning the timing of the release of this story. Barnicle said the NYT’s had this story months ago.
Bill Keller (NYT) said in a statement that the story reached his desk Tuesday afternoon. Barnicle disputes that statement from Keller. LOL. This is getting interesting.
Barnicle says that if this story had run in December, McCain would not have won the NH primary.
THIS IS THE REAL STORY HERE FOLKS. Timing is everything.
Hands down, the statement of this political season.
02/16/1993 McCain Statement on Bi-Partisan Effort in the Airline Industry 10/03/1997 McCAIN OFFERS PROPOSALS TO ENHANCE COMPETITION IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY 04/24/1998 McCAIN STATEMENT ON AIRLINE INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATION 02/05/1999 WYDEN, McCAIN ANNOUNCE BILL TO HELP AIRLINE PASSENGERS MAKE INFORMED TRAVEL CHOICES 06/17/1999 McCAIN: AIRLINES TAKE SIGNIFICANT STEP IN ADDRESSING AIRLINE SERVICE 06/27/2000 McCAIN: AIRLINES STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO ON CUSTOMER SERVICE 06/27/2000 SENATOR MCCAIN COMMENTS ON AIRLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE 10/05/1999 McCAIN STATEMENT ON AIR TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT ACT 07/26/2000 McCAIN, GORTON ISSUE STATEMENT ON UNITED - US AIRWAYS MERGER 02/12/2001 McCain: Further Work on Airline Service Must Be Done 02/12/2001 Statement Regarding Work on Airline Service 02/13/2001 MCCAIN, HOLLINGS, HUTCHISON INTRODUCE BILL TO IMPROVE AIRLINE PASSENGER SERVICE 03/01/2001 MCCAIN JOINS HOLLINGS IN INTRODUCING BILL TO ENHANCE AIRLINE COMPETITION 03/01/2001 Statement Introducing Bill to Enhance Airline Competition 08/02/2001 McCain, Lott, Burns Introduce Bill to Resolve Airline Disputes 09/17/2001 MCCAIN: WE MUST ACT NOW TO STABILIZE AIRLINE INDUSTRY 10/03/2001 KYL, MCCAIN JOIN BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO ENSURE TTREATMENT FOR ALL AIRLINES 03/19/2003 McCain, Lott Ask About Relief For Airline Industry
Media turning on McCain and putting out hit pieces? I’m shocked! (sarcasm)
I was looking up some of the old Amy Silverman articles and I came across this one, about John McCain and his opportunistic relationship with Carl Lindner and how John McCain how John McCain turned “green”. It’s called, “Saving private Interests.”
http://www.best-of.com/1998-08-06/news/saving-private-interests/
For the past three years McCain has used his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce, Transportation and Science Committee to squeeze campaign contributions from huge corporations. McCain’s biggest campaign contributors all have business before his committee. New Times’ Amy Silverman has reported that people who testified before the committee between January 1997 and November 1999 donated nearly $800,000. They made the contributions personally or through their employers’ PACs. Of those who testified, representatives of industry outnumbered consumer groups by more than 10 to one. Witnesses for industry accounted for all of the contributions. Companies like America Online, EchoStar, Union Pacific and US West–all of whom regularly have business before his committee–have hosted fundraisers for McCain.
The biggest contributor to McCain has been the telecommunications industry, which has contributed almost $1 million. That includes US West, Bell South and Bell Atlantic, which are trying to get into the long-distance telephone service and Internet access business. And McCain is pushing telecommunications legislation to do just that. Viacom, Boeing and AT&T are all major contributors to McCain. McCain’s committee oversees the Federal Aviation Administration; McCain has received at least $83,900 from major airline employees and their PACs. Overall he has received at least $182,000 from the aviation industry. Not coincidentally, Congress gutted the so-called Airline Passenger Bill of Rights. For years McCain has tried to win an increase in the number of slots at Reagan National Airport for the Arizona-based America West Airlines. America West Airlines has donated at least $11,500 to McCain. Press
It is no surprise then to find so many corporate lobbyists involved in McCain’s campaign. Former Reagan aide Rick Davis is his campaign manager. The Associated Press reports that Davis has taken a leave of absence from the firm of Davis, Manafort and Freedman, where he is managing partner. The firm’s clients include Comsat. Under legislation McCain is helping to write, it would no longer control access to the global satellite consortium, Intelsat. Another client is SBC Communications, which, like other Bell companies, wants federal approval to carry data over long-distance lines.
Kenneth Duberstein is another McCain operative. Formerly chief of staff in Ronald Reagan’s White House, he is now a member of McCain’s national campaign steering committee. He is also chairman of the Duberstein Group, whose clients include United Airlines and CSX, one of the nation’s largest freight railroads. The AP further notes that McCain is involved in negotiations to renew the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees United. McCain has also introduced legislation to renew the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates CSX. Another member of McCain’s national campaign steering committee is former Congressman Vin Weber. Weber runs the Washington office of Clark and Weinstock. Its clients include the Air Transport Association–the trade group for the nation’s airlines–and AT&T, whose executives contributed $10,000 to McCain’s campaign shortly after McCain introduced legislation that could have made it easier for the phone giant to expand further into the cable television business.
I like how they wait to run the story when the primary is over.
Still I have to love the fact that McCain has been a media whore running around helping them screw his pary over, how ironic now that that same media is now screwing him over. :) :) :)
How do like the fact that it was a McCain crony who financed the Huckabee PAC that tore down Romney?
Huckabee kept saying that he had no relationship with the PAC, but no one believed him. Believe it now, Carl Lindner is a McCain man.
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