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John McCain's Lobbyist Problems Continue: Another Aide Resigns Over Myanmar Junta Ties
Doesn't John McCain have anyone do background checks on his aides? Meet Doug Davenport:
Doug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002.
"Doug has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director, wrote in a e-mail.
He joins former DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent Myanmar's ruling junta.
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A Second McCain Aide Resigns
So that makes three members of McCain's campaign who have been dismissed or have resigned in the past two weeks after questionable lobbying ties have been exposed.
The previous two figures, Doug Goodyear and Ali Jawad, are detailed in my previous post:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/what-do-hezbollah-and-the-myan.php
Any pilot or sailor knows that "losing one's bearings" means that you are lost and headed in the wrong direction.
Comments (3)
Background checks? The man who employed a guy who trolled for sex in the men's bathroom, then said he did it because he saw a black guy?
May 11, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess it was a rhetorical question, as McCain doesn't seem to pay much attention to or care about who he is associating with, e.g. Rev. Hagee. I can't wait until Obama starts laying the smack down on all of McCain's flip-flps and lapses in judgement.
May 11, 2008 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, no, I don't think McCain does have someone to check that people are compatible with his own key talking points about himself.
As he grows his organization, there's going to be tremendous pressure to choose folks like these guys. The Republican empire will assemble itself inside his camp.
That's why any differences between McCain and Bush barely matter. Even on issues where McCain seriously means to be different, his intentions won't change the outcome. And if he tried to put together an administration, the same would be true.
May 11, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
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