McCain's Murderers Row: more campaign staffers tied to multiple dictatorships

[environmentalist]

A new contributing writer on THE ENVIRONMENTALIST, Cliff Schecter, the author of THE REAL McCAIN, has outlined, in his first post for us, the connections between three of McCain's top staffers and their paid lobbying efforts for the Burmese Junta, Saudi Arabia, various African dictatorships; a veritable 'Murderers Row'.

Here's an excerpt:

A new website has been created by Campaign Money Watch to convince Senator McCain to fire three lobbyists working on his campaign that have ties to ruthless dictators. You may recall that over the past two days, two McCain aides have resigned because of their willingness to do public relations work for the Burmese Junta.

It turns out that they have friends in low places, however. I contacted David Donnelly, Director of Campaign Money Watch, for a comment, and what he had to say explains what his group is trying to accomplish:

"John McCain ought to immediately fire three lobbyists — Charlie Black, Tom Loeffler, and Peter Madaigan -- whose lobbying for brutal dictators and foreign governments is every bit as bad as the two lobbyists who left his campaign over the weekend. Frankly, McCain's campaign is turning out to be an effort of, by, and for these types of Washington influence peddlers. His credentials as a reformer are gone."

Pretty strong words. Yet, if you read what these men have been up to, perhaps not strong enough...

Please visit THE ENVIRONMENTALIST for details and pass this link on to everyone you know:

http://www.the-environmentalist.org/2008/05/mccains-murderers-row.html

Thank you.

[helderheid]

1. Thanks!

[Zachstar]

2. At this rate McCain is going to be easy to defeat.

The republicans had a change with Ron Paul. Yet they were too power hungry to give him a chance.

[WA98070]

3. I guess "Guilt by association" is a one way street.

[RedEarth]

4. Very good...... thanks..