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Rick Davis Is John McCain's Grima Wormtounge
From the New York Times:
Senator John McCain's campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.This is more damning than any former lobbying working on a campaign that we've heard about thus far. This is a campaign manager, who for FIVE YEARS was PAID FOR ACCESS TO A CANDIDATE. Rick Davis didn't lobby in the traditional way, he was paid to whisper words of deregulation directly into John McCain's ear. The mainstream media might not give this much newstime, but in The Captain's opinion, it should be in the headlines and live on in editorials till election day.
“The value that he brought to the relationship was the closeness to Senator McCain and the possibility that Senator McCain was going to run for president again,” said Robert McCarson, a former spokesman for Fannie Mae, who said that while he worked there from 2000 to 2002, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac together paid Mr. Davis’s firm $35,000 a month. Mr. Davis “didn’t really do anything,” Mr. McCarson, a Democrat, said.
-The Captain www.MissionExposition.com
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