“Keene worked for the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Robert Dole, and Mitt Romney.”
Downhill all the way!
http://www.truth-out.org/071709J
Conservative Group Offers to Sell Endorsement for $2 Million
Friday 17 July 2009
by: Mike Allen | The Politico
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s president flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”
The conservative group’s remarkable demand - black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play’ - was contained in a private letter to FedEx , which was provided to POLITICO.
http://www.truth-out.org/071709J