Update II: The Anti-Lobbyist, Advised by Lobbyists
Update: Links to Female Lobbyist Exposed, Straight Talker Clams Up
McCain's aggressive defense is breaking down.
I wonder if McCain's campaign will call itself a "hit and run smear campaign," engaging in "gutter politics".
Who cares what McCain was doing with the lobbyist personally, good for him; but the reformer is a phoney.
- McCain interceded for donors, data show
- McCain's Statement Contradicts His Deposition
- McCain Comments Distort FCC Matter
From Newsweek:
A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist. ...
But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. "I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue," McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. "He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint." ...
McCain's subsequent letters to the FCC—coming around the same time that Paxson's firm was flying the senator to campaign events aboard its corporate jet and contributing $20,000 to his campaign—first surfaced as an issue during his unsuccessful 2000 presidential bid. William Kennard, the FCC chair at the time, described the sharply worded letters from McCain, then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, as "highly unusual."
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