Crossposted from MY LEFT WING
John McCain‘s CAMPAIGN MANAGER, Rick Davis took a leave of absence — that is, he “stopped taking a salary” — from his lobbying firm in 2006… but that firm has been accepting FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS a MONTH until…
LAST MONTH. For, apparently, no reason. No work has been done by Davis’s firm on behalf of Freddie Mac since Davis “stopped drawing a salary.” John McCain and his campaign claimed as recently as TWO DAYS AGO that Rick Davis has NOTHING TO DO with Freddie Mac. Nothing. And that he has NEVER lobbied for Freddie Mac.
Why was Freddie Mac paying Rick Davis’s lobbying firm $15 THOUSAND a MONTH until 24 days ago?
THIS IS FUCKING HUGE.
No, seriously. If this is not THE NUMBER ONE STORY in the media this week, there is something VERY VERY VERY wrong with the media and with us for not MAKING them cover it as the NUMBER ONE STORY.
Because THIS IS FUCKING HUGE.
Connect the dots: McCain… Rick Davis… Freddie Mac… FINANCIAL APOCALYPSE… Government Bail Out.
John McCain = CORRUPTION
He has two choices (aside from simply throwing his hands in the air and admitting to the American people that his campaign is a disaster and further, properly reflects what his Administration would look like): Either he throws Davis under the bus and claims total ignorance — which makes him look… totally ignorant; or they circle the wagons and McCain marches into the Valley of Death with a huge, flashing red sign over his head that says: MOST CORRUPT CANDIDATE EVER. And a tattoo on his forehead that reads: PROPERTY OF FREDDIE MAC.
Naturally, it appears the McCain campaign has opted for the latter approach. And the only thing standing between their SUCCEEDING at this outrageous tack and the whole goddamned country erupting into Watergate-sized horror at this… is the media — and us.
I’m very interested to see what happens next; because I know EXACTLY what would happen next if it were OBAMA’S campaign manager.
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John McCain already knew Charles Keating well. His ties to the home builder dated to 1981, when the two men met at a Navy League dinner where McCain spoke.
After the speech, Keating walked up to McCain and told him that he, too, was a Navy flier and that he greatly respected McCain’s war record. He met McCain’s wife and family. The two men became friends.
Charles H Keating Jr. always took care of his friends, especially those in politics. McCain was no exception.
In 1982, during McCain’s first run for the House, Keating held a fund-raiser for him, collecting more than $11,000 from 40 employees of American Continental Corp. McCain would spend more than $550,000 to win the primary and the general election.
In 1983, as McCain contemplated his House re-election, Keating hosted a $1,000-a-plate dinner for him, even though McCain had no serious competition. When McCain pushed for the Senate in 1986, Keating was there with more than $50,000.
By 1987, McCain had received about $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.
McCain also had carried a little water for Keating in Washington. While in the House, McCain, along with a majority of representatives, co-sponsored a resolution to delay new regulations designed to curb risky investments by thrifts such as Lincoln Savings and Loan.
Keating had donated to all the senators’ campaigns, and McCain’s wife, Cindy, whom the Times describes as “the heiress to a beer fortune” in Arizona, had “joined Mr. Keating in investing in an Arizona shopping mall.”
The collapse of the Lincoln S&L cost taxpayers approximately $3.4 billion; the S&L crisis as a whole cost taxpayers more than $124 billion, according to the General Accounting Office.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."It should.
McSame’s boys and the GOP noise machine will simply yell REZKO REZKO REZKO WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND BOOGA REZKO BOOGA INFANTICIDE SCARY BLACK MUSLIM BLOOGITY REZKO REZKO UPPITY BOOGA BOOGA POOR SARAH PALIN REZKO REZKO I’M A POW DAMMIT until November.
I guarantee you that McSame over the next six weeks will be the most disgusting campaign you will ever witness.
I hate to break it to you, but it’s up to the us. The media serves the corporate raiders who have been profiteering at our expense.
Maybe they didn’t realize the lobbying firm had no one lobbying for them. Big companies DO make mistakes like that on contracts, especially little ones. $15K a month is peanuts to Freddie Mac. Some accountant overlooked it (probably too busy counting CDO’s) and just paid the invoices until someone wanted a report on activity.
And thank you, after all the OTHER shit these douchebags have pulled… they LOST their benefit of the doubt card a LONG time ago.