Send a politically incorrect process server to the ladies' room:
Posted on 02/22/2008 7:49:15 AM PST by jdm
ACTION NOTE: You can email the reporters here. Given the information below and their failure to be the least bit skeptical, you might want to do so.
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So much for your media friends, Senator McCain. The Washington Post piles on this morning in a most disingenuous way.
In McCain's case, the fact that lobbyists are essentially running his presidential campaign -- most of them as volunteers -- seems to some people to be at odds with his anti-lobbying rhetoric. "He has a closer relationship with lobbyists than he lets on," said Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics ["CREW"] in Washington. "The problem for McCain being so closely associated with lobbyists is that he's the candidate most closely associated with attacking lobbyists."
Michael D. Shear and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum carried this off without ever hinting that CREW might be more than what it seems.
As Green Mountain Politics notes
we think it's only fair - in the interest of sunlight - to point out that Ms. Sloan has worked in the past for Democrat John Conyers, Democrat Chuck Schumer and Democrat Joe Biden.And now Ms. Sloan wants to pass judgment on the Republican nominee for President as if her career sprang up in a vacuum?
Likewise, the reporters never mentioned CREW is heavily funded by liberal interests.
Read on . . .
In February 2006, CREW asked the Senate Finance Committee to investigate the Center for Union Facts, an anti-union group, and its sister organization, the Center for Consumer Freedom, which CREW claimed are “front organizations for for-profit industry entities.” The complaint noted that the Center for Union Facts Web site had “negative information about unions,” including the Service Employees International Union. …On Sept. 1, 2006, CREW received $75,000 from the SEIU, according to documents that the union filed with the Department of Labor.
In February 2007, CREW also asked the GAO to investigate whether broadcasts of Radio Martí beamed from Florida to Cuba violate federal laws against dissemination of propaganda in the U.S.
While CREW will not release its donor records, since 2003 the group has received $125,000 from the Arca Foundation, according to the foundation’s annual reports. Over the same period, Arca — a family foundation that has backed a host of liberal causes — has provided about $1 million to organizations to advocate opening ties to Cuba and reducing barriers to travel.
Arca also supports the Center for Independent Media, founded in 2006 to promote “citizen-driven journalism” through blogs. The center established two Web sites as test-beds — Minnesota Monitor and Colorado Confidential.
Three weeks before the 2006 Congressional elections, CREW filed a complaint with the IRS alleging that a Minnesota pastor had violated his church’s tax-exempt status by endorsing conservative Republican Michele Bachmann
The Gill Foundation is heavily invested in organizations advocating gay and lesbian rights. One of the prime antagonists of the gay rights movement is Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.), who introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
Two weeks before the 2004 election, CREW filed a complaint with the Department of Justice alleging that Musgrave’s campaign was operating out of her district office in Loveland, Colo. … The Gill Foundation donated $125,000 to CREW in 2006, according to the foundation’s annual report.
Id like to know why the Post and SLime are not carrying this story?
Hillary Defies Judge’s Mandate That She Must Testify in Paul v Clinton By Demanding A Process Server Must “Catch” and Serve Her In Person!
ABC 20/20 Corroborates Peter Paul Against Hillary ClintonSeven years ago Peter Paul began whistleblowing to the government and alerting the media of numerous illegalities committed by Hillary and Bill Clinton in order to win Hillary’s first election to public office. The multi-million dollar donor to Hillary’s Senate campaign that caused Hillary’s finance director to be indicted and tried in May, 2005, for hiding his contributions, and whose complaint to the FEC resulted in a finding that Hillary’s campaign broke the law resulting in the only FEC fine imposed against Hillary’s campaign, will begin the discovery process leading to a trial in Los Angeles later this year of the Clintons and others for destroying Paul’s public company.
http://www.peterfpaul.com/2008/02/16/abc-2020-shows-hillary-clinton-is-the-liar-in-illegalities-exposed-by-top-donor-peter-paul/
Going after CREW doesn’t change the fact that McCain sells himself as being against special interests when he’s really no better than anyone else in Washington.
Look for a lot more Huckabee promotion by the DBM as well... anything to take the focus off the Obama/Clinton death-match.
No matter what happened with the woman, what he did was wrong if not illegal. And most of this election staff are Washington lobbyists. He sold out to special interest long ago.
hmmm one slimeball publication sliming a slimeball politician.
I’m in a quandry as to who to root for.
You know, I've read the actual NYT story, and I still am not sure what they are saying he did wrong. Maybe you can enlighten me. ALl I read was some unsubstantiated innuendo, not even a straightforward allegation of improper behavior.
That’s bull. YOU need to listen and read more. He did NOT demand approval. He demanded they make a decision after dragging their feet for over a year. The documents are out there for anybody to see.
Lobbying is protected by the constitution. Stop using lobbyist as a dirty word. Just like the Democrats use the words pharmaceutical company and oil company. That is just stereotyping. Of the thousands of lobbyists, very few are crooked.
Send a politically incorrect process server to the ladies' room:
The purpose of a newspaper is not to tell the truth.
The purpose is to sell papers.
The fact that the NYT and WP both hate McCain and are vehemently against him might get me fully on McCain’s side.
Aiken is a town in South Carolina. That’s why McCain lost the 2000 primary in SC—Aiken was flying around in a lobbyist’s plane instead of staying put and voting for him.
Ok, McCain-hating FReepers...
CREW is funded by George Soros.
CREW is going after John McCain.
Can we dispense with the "John McCain is on the Soros payroll" crap?
Live in Clemson once, but don't tell anyone.
I can hardly wait until Obama’s gay lover, Larry Sinclair, takes his polygrah.
In keeping with today being General Washington's birthday, I might mention that Parson Weems, inventor of the cherry tree story, later lived in the Edgefield District.
Excuse me for butting in, but this may help explain on what 'Mr Clean' McCain did wrong. It goes back to 2005, I found it yesterday..
Captain's QuartersThere's more at the link and all pertains to the female Lobbyist in question. It sure looks like quid pro quo to me and a redux of the Keating Five Scandal.
Sen. John McCain pressed a cable company's case for pricing changes with regulators at the same time a tax-exempt group that he has worked with since its founding solicited $200,000 in contributions from the company.Help from McCain, who argues for ridding politics of big money, included giving the CEO of Cablevision Systems Corp. the opportunity to testify before his Senate committee, writing a letter of support to the Federal Communication Commission and asking other cable companies to support so-called a la carte pricing.
McCain had expressed interest in exploring the a la carte option for years before Cablevision advocated it, but did not take a formal position with regulators until after the company's first donation came in.
And from a guy who has the (blank) to say this....
“I would rather have a clean government than one where quote 'First Amendment rights' are being respected that has become corrupt,” McCain said. “If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.”
He actually said 'quote' First Amendment rights.
(That's it, sorry for the interruption. Carry on)
You are correct!
Okay, but what about that was unethical or illegal? From what I read in the article, even in those two cases his actions were consistent with his own stated positions. The article also doesn't give any information about the dozen or so times he took actions that were adverse to her client's interests.
The implication the NYT is trying to make is that McCain allowed a romantic/sexual relationship to influence his performance of his public duties. So far, there is absolutely no evidence of a sexual or romantic relationship, nor any evidence that he was influenced to do anything unethical or inconsistent with his own beliefs. If you have any such evidence, please provide it, because no one in the media has done so yet. It is all innuendo and implications...
McCain had expressed interest in exploring the a la carte option for years before Cablevision advocated it, but did not take a formal position with regulators until after the company's first donation came in.
I'd have to read more about it, but the fact that this was a position he had been advocating for years seems to belie the idea that his support was merely a quid pro quo. This also had nothing to do with the story in the NYT.
I am not a McCain supporter (I voted for Fred), and I don't like him for a number of reasons. However, this NYT story is the worst case of yellow journalism since the TANG story in 2004.
Anybody else running low on popcorn?
Another unsubstantiated quip from the McCain Deranged.
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