I pulled this from the Drudge Report...
"Flanking McCain were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, his one-time rival for the GOP presidential nomination, and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Others in the meeting were John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, and John Thain, the CEO of Merrill Lynch before it was acquired by Bank of America earlier this month for a much-reduced value.
A survey by The Associated Press found that Thain was the best-paid corporate executive in the U.S. in 2007, receiving approximately $83.1 million in salary and bonuses that year."
MORE OF THE SAME!!!
MCCAIN'S GETTING ADVISE FROM PEOPLE WHO WANT A TOTALLY DEREGULATED ECONOMY...THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN THIS MESS!!!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
John McCain Doesn't Care About Ohio
McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, previously worked as a lobbyist for the German group, Deutsche Post World Net, and was paid $185,000 to help engineer the 2003 deal, plus another $405,000 for other work.
Davis helped Deutsche Post overcome objections in the Senate when the German company was negotiating the purchase, the paper reported. As head of the commerce committee, McCain fought back proposed amendments in a defense spending bill that would have barred a foreign-owned company from flying U.S. military equipment or troops.
McCain said he objected to restricting the Pentagon's options, and to using a spending bill to set military policy. But his position angered some lawmakers and DHL competitors that sought to keep the U.S. air freight business in American hands.
McCain's campaign said Thursday that Davis has not lobbied for DHL since 2005 and had no role in the current controversy. He took a leave of absence from his lobbying practice to run McCain's campaign.
But the politically sensitive case has embarrassed McCain, who has railed against the role of special interest groups in Washington, and it threatens to undermine his efforts to capture this crucial state in November.
Davis helped Deutsche Post overcome objections in the Senate when the German company was negotiating the purchase, the paper reported. As head of the commerce committee, McCain fought back proposed amendments in a defense spending bill that would have barred a foreign-owned company from flying U.S. military equipment or troops.
McCain said he objected to restricting the Pentagon's options, and to using a spending bill to set military policy. But his position angered some lawmakers and DHL competitors that sought to keep the U.S. air freight business in American hands.
McCain's campaign said Thursday that Davis has not lobbied for DHL since 2005 and had no role in the current controversy. He took a leave of absence from his lobbying practice to run McCain's campaign.
But the politically sensitive case has embarrassed McCain, who has railed against the role of special interest groups in Washington, and it threatens to undermine his efforts to capture this crucial state in November.
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