Subject: [big campaign] Yesterday McCain Said He'd 'Be Glad' To Have Rick Davis's Record 'Examined By Anybody'
From: "Adam Jentleson" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:55:48 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

ThinkProgress caught this nugget from Harwood's interview with McCain
yesterday.  

Just Yesterday, McCain Said He'd 'Be Glad' To Have Rick Davis's Record
'Examined By Anybody'
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/mccain-wants-davis-vetted/> 

Today, the New York Times published an article in which it examined the
lobbying record of Rick Davis, Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign
manager. Based on interviews with current and former officials at Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac and public records, the Times found that over a
period of five years, Davis made nearly $2 million
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html?em>
lobbying for the two mortgage giants:

	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.

The McCain campaign's response to the article was surprisingly vicious.
On a conference call with reporters, McCain campaign strategist Steve
Schmidt called the New York Times a "pro-Obama organization
<http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mccain_campaign
_slams_new_york.php> " and said, "it is not today - by any standard - a
journalistic organization." Davis claimed, "I never lobbied a single day
<http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mccain_campaign
_slams_new_york.php> ." Listen to a TPM Election Center recording here:

But just yesterday, in an interview with McCain, CNBC's John Harwood
said he'd be "glad to have [Davis's] record examined." In a portion of
the interview
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/us/politics/21text-mccain.html?pagewa
nted=1>  that does not appear to have been broadcast by CNBC, Harwood
asked McCain about his campaign manager's former lobbying activities:

HARWOOD: You mentioned cronyism and corruption on Wall Street and in
Washington. ... How do you square that with the fact that your campaign
manager, Rick Davis, was involved in some lobbying activities on behalf
of Fannie Mae? [...]

MCCAIN: My campaign manager has stopped that, has had nothing to do with
it since, and I'll be glad to have his record examined by anybody who
wants to look at it.

Examined by anybody...except journalists at the New York Times. 

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/mccain-wants-davis-vetted/

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