McHypocrite's Campaign Surrounded by Lobbyists
No integrity, corruption tainted John Sidney McHypocrite, McLobbyist has at least 139 lobbyists running his campaign and fundraising for him. For a list of those lobbyists go to McCain Source.
As reported by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) , "Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has strong connections to the high-powered lobbyists employed by AT&T and other telecommunications companies to escape from responsibility for violations of federal law, with paid lobbyists occupying prominant positions in the upper echelons.
"Last fall Newsweek reported on the telecom's 'secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence community's warrantless surveillance programs.' The magazine named some of the chief telecom immunity lobbyists:
"Wayne Berman is McCain's national finance co-chairman, and Managing Director of Ogilvy Government Relations, a prominent lobbyist for telecom immunity in the FISA legislation. [Ogilvy Lobbying Disclosure]. John Green, a founding partner of Ogilvy, and another paid lobbyist on FISA for AT&T, is now 'a full-time liaison between McCain’s presidential campaign and Republicans in the House and the Senate.'
"Dan Coats is a member of McCain's Justice Advisory Committee, and has campaigned for McCain, and was joined by former Senator Trent Lott. After leaving the Senate in 2007, Lott became a paid lobbyist for AT&T, seeking immunity for the telecoms."
The article also lists more of these McCain lobbyists and their connections to telecoms.
The EFF posting continues: "Telecom immunity lobbyists are not the only connections between the McCain campaign and telecom lobby. USA Today reports "Of the 66 current or former lobbyists working for the Arizona senator or raising money for his presidential campaign, 23 have lobbied for telecommunications companies in the past decade."
No wonder anti-integrity, anti-Constitution, anti-rule of law, pro invasion of privacy, corporate criminals' crony, elite, multimillionaire J. Sid McHypocrite supports and will continue Bush's illegal warrantless wiretapping and wants retroactive immunity for telecoms.
As reported by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) , "Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has strong connections to the high-powered lobbyists employed by AT&T and other telecommunications companies to escape from responsibility for violations of federal law, with paid lobbyists occupying prominant positions in the upper echelons.
"Last fall Newsweek reported on the telecom's 'secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence community's warrantless surveillance programs.' The magazine named some of the chief telecom immunity lobbyists:
Among the players, these sources said: powerhouse Republican lobbyists Charlie Black and Wayne Berman (who represent AT&T and Verizon, respectively), former GOP senator and U.S. ambassador to Germany Dan Coats (a lawyer at King & Spaulding who is representing Sprint) ...
"All three are now working with McCain. Charlie Black is now the chief political adviser for McCain. In March, Black left BKSH & Associates, a lobbying firm he helped found. Up until Black left BKSH, he was paid by his lobbying firm, while his firm was paid by AT&T [BKSH Lobbying Disclosure]
"Wayne Berman is McCain's national finance co-chairman, and Managing Director of Ogilvy Government Relations, a prominent lobbyist for telecom immunity in the FISA legislation. [Ogilvy Lobbying Disclosure]. John Green, a founding partner of Ogilvy, and another paid lobbyist on FISA for AT&T, is now 'a full-time liaison between McCain’s presidential campaign and Republicans in the House and the Senate.'
"Dan Coats is a member of McCain's Justice Advisory Committee, and has campaigned for McCain, and was joined by former Senator Trent Lott. After leaving the Senate in 2007, Lott became a paid lobbyist for AT&T, seeking immunity for the telecoms."
The article also lists more of these McCain lobbyists and their connections to telecoms.
The EFF posting continues: "Telecom immunity lobbyists are not the only connections between the McCain campaign and telecom lobby. USA Today reports "Of the 66 current or former lobbyists working for the Arizona senator or raising money for his presidential campaign, 23 have lobbied for telecommunications companies in the past decade."
No wonder anti-integrity, anti-Constitution, anti-rule of law, pro invasion of privacy, corporate criminals' crony, elite, multimillionaire J. Sid McHypocrite supports and will continue Bush's illegal warrantless wiretapping and wants retroactive immunity for telecoms.
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