Doug Goodyear, McCain's pick to run RN Convention resigns over Myanmar lobbyist ties
By John Amato Saturday May 10, 2008 2:04pm
(graphic via Press TV)It's been well documented that John McCain has more lobbyists running his campaign than the entire 53 man roster of an NFL football team. I remember seeing John McCain look so sheepish during his presser with his wife Cindy after the NY Times story came out that I said this:
Because he now knows that reporters will be digging into his business for the past decade or so to examine how far and deep his love affair with lobbyists actually goes.
Immediately, Newsweek busted John McCain over his denials that he spoke to anyone at Paxson or Alcalde & Fay.
They will also be digging into the lobbyists business as well. Newsweek broke the news yesterday that Doug Goodyear, John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention after it was found he lobbied for the military junta that runs Myanmar. Is there anything more despicable than this connection?
But some allies worry that Goodyear's selection could fuel perceptions that McCain—who has portrayed himself as a crusader against special interests—is surrounded by lobbyists. Goodyear is CEO of DCI Group, a consulting firm that earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients. Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma's military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today.
And the news that Myanmar has been stymieing relief efforts after a cyclone ravaged the country’s coastal areas on May 3, killing thousands did not help Goodyear's case either so he has resigned.
The public relations executive whom Senator John McCain’s campaign had chosen to run the Republican National Convention this summer resigned his post on Saturday after a magazine reported that his firm had lobbied for the military junta that runs Myanmar.
The executive, Doug Goodyear, said in a statement that he was stepping down as the coordinator of the convention, which will be held Sept. 1-4 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, “so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.”
“I continue to strongly support John McCain for president and wish him the best of luck in this campaign,” the two-sentence statement concluded.
This once again shows the judgement John McCain shows as he moves closer to the fall election. Will McCain consider Goodyear a good lobbyist or a bad lobbyist? I'm just asking since he did that on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago.
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McFrist!
DOH!!
enjoy your short lived triumph, I am second
Goodyear was a good lobbyist until he became a bad lobbyist. Ditto Renzi was a good indicted co-chair until he became a bad indicted co-chair.
Good help is hard to find you know.
imagine McCain choosing such a person to organize the ‘08 RNC convention
oops no background checking and oops the news people found out.
oops he has to do a ‘Rumsfeld’ and maybe work from behind the curtain.
(who mysteriously kept his office at the DoD after being fired !! and had hordes of US gov employees helping him evading french war crimes arrest and trial the other month when they 'escaped' him to Germany and out of Europe on US mil airplane. gee I sense a movie soon.)
HaHa.
Except the 28%ers don't care how corrupt *cough* Keating Five *cough* McBush is. Or any of his cronies. So long as they can shoot for 4 more years of fairy tale land.
Was McCain on permanent nap mode throughout the entire Jack Abramoff spectacle? How does he not realize that all these shady lobbyists on his team doesn't exactly jive with his "I'm a agent of change" pitch? I know he's old, but come on, he's just making Obama's job easier.
gf120581 @ 7:
McSame probably forgot to give Newsweek their quota of donuts.
gf120581 @ 7:
He was awake long enough to accept the $5000 via Abramoff from the non Arizonan Indian Tribes casino.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 8:
it was the missing icing on the top that peed them off.
gf120581 @ 7:
McCain already assumes he's President. He's already had his basic training with those Iraq Trips he took this year.
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
I hear hes planning a trip to Wall Street to inspect their market soon.
Yes, how about this:
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4228113&page=3
In the context of all this:
www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
No wonder he can't get the difference between Shiites and Sunnis straight.
Bill B. @ 13:
could it be that the Saudis prefer to export their troublemakers, so it happens elsewhere rather than at home !
Ah, the party of high and holier-than-thou morals.
*yawn* Let's talk more about bowling scores and former pastors.
What, lobbyist connections to the generals who confiscate all emergency aid, and sells it at bloodprices to the ones hit by the disaster?
Well, thats just good business sense son, supply and demand and all that, nothing wrong with business is there, or are you all commies?
People don't vote Republican because they see them as above corruption; they vote Republican in the expectation that they will humble their enemies; blacks, browns, uppity women, and intellectuals. They also hope that a little bit of that corruption will trickle their way.
It really is that simple.
King of Kings @ 18:
"People" vote reich-wingers because they don't have to think for themselves. Once you're part of their reich-wing crew, you longer have to form your own opinion and you don't have to worry about facts and reality.
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I am reminded of a time when we thought the economy was in relatively good hands because Bush surrounded himself by intelligent economic advisers who would help him through the tough stuff. But then when he came up with his economic plan, his economic advisers said it was a shit idea, so Bush-for-brains fired his economic advisers and hired new ones that would agree with his dumbass plans.
This is the exact same thing we can expect from McCain.
I have NO doubt this allegation against McCain's ties to many lobbyist. After ALL he has made his years of POLITICAL career possible by the help of the special interest and lobbyist. I would n't doubt for a moment that those lobbyist gets the "go" from BUSH the very same that supported and finance his presidential campaign.
YES "EXPERIENCE" can sometimes become a disadvantage......and contradict REAL "CHANGE".
Too many old farts who has made a long-time career in politics are well EXPERIENCED in getting around obsticles particularly raising money for campaigns from the big corporate supporters and lobbyist and bilking them as a price for political accesses particularly in the Republican and Democratic Party.
The CHANGE is NOW! and it is a DIFFERENT political ARENA that career politicians are facing. People ARE far more intouch than those who run our government. Tha audacity and arrogance of claiming MANY YEARS of experience MAY have its consequences.......
Before anyone consider becoming PRESIDENT; you must have control of your OWN dirty laundry or OTHERS will expose it for YOU if you don't clean-up your ACT before then.
The VOTERS has elevated it's STANDARD of EXCELLENCES commencing with the position of any POLITICAL POWER. After many years of CREDIBILITY problems, Corruptions; and scandals at the PRICE of the hard working TAX-PAYER and the trusting gullible VOTERS; PEOPLE are beginning to wake-up to the reality that they must participate in the political processes and government OVERSIGHT; otherwise the COST of NOT doing so to the Nation, the Citizens, and the nation's reputation in the WORLD is enormous; not just to the effect of our daily lives but also to our health, well-being, our livelihood, our environment, our safety, our future, our economy and our freedom and PEACE.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH......
We have the technology to make sure that we as people play our part in the OVERSIGHT of our government; laws and democracy. IT IS TIME TO USE IT and not limit ourselves to gaining knowlege academically but the use of our Technology to keep ourselves WELL INFORMED. This will be the AGE of ACCOUNTABILITY.....a long forgotten process. Anyone who resist this healthy process MUST be QUESTIONED!.............
TRUST but VERIFY............
McNutbag may have many ties to lobbyists as is well known and will fly in his hypocritical face during the debates; however, there is one major lobbyist still AQOL - that would be his "Mistress Lobbyist - VICKY ISEMAN". She's the one who was flitting about with him on his private jet behind Cindy's back. Yes, where the hell is Vicky Iseman? She seems to have vanished off the face of the earth? I've heard that she was given $20,000 by the GOP to "get lost" at least until after the elections.
WHERE THE HELL IS VICKY ISEMAN?? MAYBE WE NEED TO BEGIN A COUNTDOWN CLOCK.
THIS WOMAN, SINGLEHANDEDLY, WILL TAKE DOWN THIS KNOWN WOMANIZER.
If we can locate the breaking of the Mistress Iseman story then we can countdown from there to the present.
King of Kings @ 18:
Barak Obama represents these people's absolute worst nightmare in every way. He defies all that they have been taught lifelong about colored folk.
John McCain is starting to worry me with his love of lobbyists!
Whoops, McSame had to dump a 2nd Myanmar lobbyist on his campaign staff, Doug Davenport, his regional campaign manager for the Mid-Atlantic states.
From the <a href="">Atlantic.com's Marc Ambinder:
Wow, lobbyists are scum. If Hitler's ghost somehow appeared, they'd fucking lobby that too. The amazing thing in America these days is if you were to hang out with dictators casually, you'd be considered a rotten person, insensitive, and a crusher of humanity. But hang out with them and make money in the process, and a good chunk of our country wouldn't be fazed by that. As if profiting from your association with evil somehow makes it better ethically.
Maybe Hitler's ghost can tell me where he hid some of the money he stole from his victims. Then I can dig that up, and invest large chunks of it in a fund that does business with hijacker-producing Saudi Arabia. I'll be a goddamned capitalist hero.
Charles Black, chief lobbyist for United Technologies and also top adviser to John McCain's campaign.
United Technologies attempted a hostile takeover of Diebold about 6 weeks ago and I do believe this deal is still on the front burner.
Charles Black, John McCain, Diebold, stolen elections.
Check out "Hacking Democracy" on YouTube.
Anybody starting to connect some dots here?
Carly Fiorina? The screwball bitch who got canned at H-P for having PI's surveil and bug members of the Board of Directors?
McCain must be even stupider than I think he is, and I think he's pretty fucking stupid.
Well, brighter than Shrubbie, but baby harp seals are smarter than Shrubbie.
Abbybwood @ 29:
Why would it worry us if a defense contractor, United Tech, has a vested interest in the outcome of a presidential election, ties to the GOP candidate and wants to count the votes???
Doug Goodyear lobbying for the brutal, totalitarian Myanmar dictators is like Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandpa, lobbying for the Nazis and Adolph Hitler before World War II.
Why do right-wingers always seem to support the most brutal, torturous, totalitarian, death-penalty-hugging thugs, whether eighty years ago or today, whether in Nazi Germany or Myanmar, or South America in the 1980s?
CINDY, PLEASE LET MR. GOODYEAR BORROW YOUR PERSONAL JET, ASAP!
Republican friend and supporter of John McCain has a relationship with the military junta and should
immediately go there and help persuade his friends to allow food and medicine supplies be brought in
to help the people. He should use Cindy McCain's jet.
MR. GOODYEAR IS A COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE LIKE MCCAIN, BUSH AND CHENEY, RIGHT?
CINDY, CINDY, CINDY MCCAIN, HELP!
Doonesbury had this last week before the story broke. Little did we know that Uncle Duke was set to run the RNC:
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20080429/ldb080430.gif
It's called Burma. Unless you support the current military regime.
what is your opinion of this? http://www.obamarocks08.com
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