Subject: [big campaign] Re: McCain Lobbyist Ties Questioned in an Ad, Complaint
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: Tara McGuinness <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:50:54 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Here¹s the link to our ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8OXXZCn9QI

DD

On 6/8/08 3:51 PM, "Tara McGuinness" <[email-masked]>
wrote:

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> McCain Lobbyist Ties Questioned in Ad, Complaint
>  
> June 08, 2008 3:22 PM
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> http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/mccain-lobbyist.html
>  
> ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A watchdog group is launching an advertising
> campaign and filing an FEC complaint questioning the McCain campaign's ties to
> lobbyists, as Sen. John McCain and Sen.
> Barack Obama spar over each other's ties to special interests.
>  
> The TV ad from Campaign Money Watch, set to run on Washington, D.C., broadcast
> and cable outlets starting Monday, focuses on McCain's role in the awarding of
> an Air Force contract that would eventually go to the French company Airbus
> instead of the American company Boeing.
>  
> "Seven of McCain's staff and fundraisers lobbied for Airbus," the ad says.
> "And guess what? John McCain intervened, which helped Airbus get that Pentagon
> contract. Tell John McCain to kick those lobbyists off the Straight Talk
> Express."
>  
> The group is also asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate two
> other public reports that touch on McCain's connections to lobbyists: That a
> lobbying company, the Loeffler Group LLP, made payments this year to McCain's
> national finance director, Susan Nelson; and that a company controlled in part
> by campaign manager Rick Davis sliced more than $100,000 off of McCain
> campaign's tab, when the campaign was starved for cash last year.
>  
> While working for Loeffler, Nelson lobbied on behalf of Airbus.
> Newsweek reported last month that Nelson was rehired early this year as a
> consultant for the company, while on the McCain campaign's payroll.
>  
> Campaign Money Watch alleges that the payments made by the Loeffler Group and
> the discount arranged by the company 3eDC could amount to illegal corporate
> contributions, according to an FEC complaint to be filed Monday. A copy of the
> group's letter to the FEC was provided to ABC News.
>  
> "That both of these matters involve excess or illegal contributions from
> for-profit entities raises serious questions about the McCain campaign that
> must be answered," the complaint states. "Simply asserting, without evidence,
> that they have done nothing wrong does not, in our judgment, satisfactorily
> answer the serious possibility that federal election law has been violated on
> at least two separate occasions."
>  
> The McCain campaign dismissed the allegations, calling them "baseless"
> and expressing confidence that the FEC complaint would be dismissed.
>  
> On the Boeing-Airbus deal, McCain aides note that the senator did not directly
> intervene on Airbus' behalf, but rather encouraged the Air Force to level the
> playing field during the bidding process.
>  
> "This is a joke," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. "John McCain's
> investigation of the bogus tanker deal saved taxpayers over $6 billion and
> exposed one of the biggest scandals in Pentagon history, for which executives
> and government officials went to jail. And now he's being attacked for
> fighting corruption and shaking up the status quo in Washington? It's absurd."
>  
> Campaign Money Watch is a project of the Public Campaign Action Fund, a
> nonprofit organization that seeks to highlight politicians' ties to special
> interests. Officials said they would not disclose the size of their
> advertising buy.
>  
> June 8, 2008 in McCain, John | Permalink | User Comments (0)
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