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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 10:18 AM
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Poll question: How many sex acts were required (or promised) in order to get McCain to write those letters begging
the FCC to "vote on the sale to Paxson of a Pittsburgh television station?"

In the years that McCain chaired the Commerce committee, Iseman lobbied for Lowell "Bud" Paxson, the head of what used to be Paxson Communications, now Ion Media Networks, and was involved in a successful lobbying campaign to persuade McCain and other members of Congress to send letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Paxson.

In late 1999, McCain wrote two letters to the FCC urging a vote on the sale to Paxson of a Pittsburgh television station.
The sale had been highly contentious in Pittsburgh and involved a multipronged lobbying effort among the parties to the deal.

At the time he sent the first letter, McCain had flown on Paxson's corporate jet four times to appear at campaign events and had received $20,000 in campaign donations from Paxson and its law firm. The second letter came on Dec. 10, a day after the company's jet ferried him to a Florida fundraiser that was held aboard a yacht in West Palm Beach.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004193120_mccain21.html

I wonder how many other female lobbyists were encouraged to perform special favors (in addition to donating thousands of dollars) in order to have the powerful Mr. McCain help them get their corporate needs met? I suspect we will never know, as coming forward to admit to such a thing would damage their careers and reputations forever. Notice they've already pulled Ms. Iseman's bio off of her employment site, indicating that she might have been fired.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 10:21 AM
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1. It was unspecified so he could keep going back for more.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 10:22 AM
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2. We'll never know
And I doubt it is just McCain getting this kind of "service."

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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