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panader0

(25,816 posts)
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 08:28 PM Sep 2018

Can someone educate me about Christian Ferry?

My old and slow computer sucks. I saw mention of his name in a post by
ehrnst. He seems to have been associated with L Graham and McCain.
From what I gathered he died very young. Anyone know about him?

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Can someone educate me about Christian Ferry? (Original Post) panader0 Sep 2018 OP
No republican's nose is clean mercuryblues Sep 2018 #1
Thanks. What an F***ing can of worms. panader0 Sep 2018 #2
Yes. DURHAM D Sep 2018 #3

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
1. No republican's nose is clean
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 08:40 PM
Sep 2018

RIGA, Latvia — A former top aide to Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain is now working to help a leading Russia-friendly political party in upcoming parliamentary elections in Latvia, a small EU nation that has been a fierce critic of the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy.

Christian Ferry, who worked as a campaign manager for Graham and a deputy campaign manager for McCain, has been hired by Nils Ušakovs, the mayor of the Latvian capital, Riga, to provide him and his Harmony party with “strategic political advice, messaging, and polling concerning the October elections,” Ferry told BuzzFeed News and Latvian investigative outlet Re:Baltica in an email.

Ušakovs has been mayor of Riga for nine years and his party holds the most seats in Latvia’s parliament. But it has been shut out of national politics because of its perceived Kremlin-friendly position and Ušakovs’ ties with Moscow, with other parties shying away from forming a coalition with them.
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Ferry has experience in the realm — he previously worked as a strategic consultant at Davis Manafort, the lobbying company of former Trump aide Paul Manafort and Rick Davis, and did work for Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine who was ousted in 2014 by a popular revolution and fled to Russia.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ingaspringe/a-former-aide-to-two-of-the-senates-biggest-russia-hawks-is

panader0

(25,816 posts)
2. Thanks. What an F***ing can of worms.
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 08:46 PM
Sep 2018

Could this have anything to do with the odd relationship between
Graham and McCain?

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