Subject: [big campaign] FW: Release: McCain loses Tom Loeffler, but Charlie Black remains
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: big campaign <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:30:50 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Just sent this out to national press.

David

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> From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:29:35 -0400
> To: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
> Conversation: Release: McCain loses Tom Loeffler, but Charlie Black remains
> Subject: Release: McCain loses Tom Loeffler, but Charlie Black remains

> 
> 
> 
> NEWS RELEASE 
> 
> For immediate release: Sunday, May 18, 2008
> For more information: David Donnelly, 617-899-1084
> 
> LOBBYIST LOEFFLER LEAVES MCCAIN CAMPAIGN, BUT MORE THAN 100 LOBBYISTS REMAIN,
> INCLUDING CONTROVERSIAL LOBBYIST CHARLIE BLACK
> 
> Washington, DC  In response to reports that the McCain presidential
> campaign¹s national finance chair, lobbyist Tom Loeffler, has resigned or been
> fired, Campaign Money Watch reissued its week old demand today that Sen. John
> McCain (R-AZ) fire lobbyist Charlie Black from his presidential campaign.
> 
> Last Monday, the nonpartisan watchdog group called on McCain to fire three
> lobbyists  Black, Tom Loeffler, and Peter Madigan  for lobbying on behalf of
> brutal dictators, repressive regimes, and foreign interests that offend
> American values.
> 
> ³Tom Loeffler¹s departure from the McCain campaign is a sign that they are
> beginning to understand the gravity of this issue,² said David Donnelly,
> director of Campaign Money Watch. ³With Loeffler¹s $15 million in lobbying
> fees from the Saudis, and his controversial work to direct an Air Force
> contract away from Boeing and to a French company, Airbus, McCain should never
> had put or left Loeffler in a position of responsibility.
> 
> ³Frankly, Sen. McCain must understand that Charlie Black¹s lobbying for
> repressive regimes and rogue figures all over the world makes Tom Loeffler
> look like a Boy Scout,² Donnelly continued. ³Lobbyist Charlie Black ought to
> be fired.²
> 
> Campaign Money Watch was the first organization to call on the McCain campaign
> to fire top lobbyists for conflicts of interest when it launched a website
> called FiretheLobbyists.com Monday, May 12th
> (http://www.firethelobbyists.com). On Friday, Campaign Money Watch sent a
> letter to McCain campaign manager and lobbyist Rick Davis to demand that the
> campaign expand the conflict of interest policy to include lobbyists who are
> raising money for the campaign. The letter can be read at
> http://www.firethelobbyists.com/davis_letter.html.
> 
> A project of Public Campaign Action Fund, Campaign Money Watch works to hold
> politicians accountable for opposing campaign finance reform and for doing
> special favors for big money donors.
> 
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