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• MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics (#): ... After having read account after account after account of John McCain's all-too-close relationship with lobbyists, it's hard for me to get too surprised at reading another account. Or at least I thought it was until reading Michael Isikoff today in Newsweek. After John McCain nailed down the Republican nomination in March, his campaign began wrestling with a sensitive personnel issue: who would manage this summer's GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.? ...
• Talking Points Memo (#): McCain taps former lobbyist for Burmese dictatorship to run GOP convention. (ed.note: For longtime TPMers, also note that Doug Goodyear is CEO of the DCI Group, the pioneering GOP astro-turf organizing outfit.) ...
• Crooks and Liars (#): ... 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 ...
• DemocracyForAmerica.com » Home » Blog (#): ... This weekend, two McCain aides resigned after Newsweek reported that their lobbying firm had represented the repressive Mynamar military regime. o McCain has at least 114 LOBBYISTS who are advising, working for or ...
• American Street (#): ... Johnathan Singer informs us that McCain tapped one of his lobbyist pals to run the GOP Convention this August, but let him go hours after Michael Isikoff’s Newsweek story disclosed that the guy was the CEO of a firm representing the Burma Military Junta — hired to whitewash their image with Washington insiders. ...
• The Carpetbagger Report - Commentary and Analysis on Politics in America by Steve Benen (#): ... It turned out to be an even worse decision than the Republicans realized. This piece from Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff went online yesterday afternoon. Goodyear is CEO of DCI Group, a consulting firm that earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients. ...
• Democratic Underground (#): ... Jill Hazelbaker. But some allies worry that Goodyear's selection could fuel perceptions that McCain—who has portrayed Discuss Newsweek
• MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary (#): ... Doug Goodyear, was actually McCain's second choice. His first choice was Paul Manafort (naturally, a lobbyist), who had to be removed from consideration because he too had lobbied for authoritarian figures , specifically Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and former Ukrainian prime minister Viktor Yanukovich. Okay, it's a bit odd that McCain can only seem to find shills for dictators to run his campaign. ...
• Oh!pinion (#): ... Goodyear bailed within hours of Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff posting a story about the past tie to Myanmar’s maniacal junta. But it gets better. ...
• Center for Media and Democracy | Publishers of PR Watch (#): ... (RNC), in St. Paul, Minnesota because of his "management experience and expertise", a spokeswoman for John McCain said. Michael Isikoff reported in Newsweek that in 2002 DCI was paid $348,000 to represent Burma's military junta. " ...
• First Read: A return to hard politicking - First Read- msnbc.com (#): Riot police break up 600-student brawl Jenna Bush's wedding is low-key affair McCain ally worked for Myanmar's junta
• Obsidian Wings (#): Via the super-liberal TPM, run by Bush-bashing über-liberal Limbaugh-analog Josh Marshall, this from Newsweek: "After John McCain nailed down the Republican nomination in March, his campaign began wrestling with a sensitive personnel issue: who would manage this summer's GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.? ...
• True Blue Liberal (#): ... Goodyear, however, says that DCI is “not in the 527 business anymore.” Read more Quandary Posted in ...
• UNDERNEWS (#): ... in a statement issued by the convention committee that he was resigning "so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.” EARLIER NEWSWEEK STORY 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. ...
• The Reality-Based Community (#): ... So McCain chose instead Doug Goodyear of the lobbying firm DCI, Inc. — which used to lobby for the SLORC, the tyranny that rules Burma. Part of its mission was to characterize as "falsehoods" complaints about systematic rape made in Burma. ...
• Matthew Yglesias (#): Michael Isikoff reports that the guy John McCain picked to run the GOP convention has done some lobbying for the military junta that rules Burma. ...
• Group News Blog (#): ... And the guy is an energy lobbyist for Exon Mobile. I really think that Johnny Freeride is beneath contempt. My grandma told me,"you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep." She would NOT have had anything to good say about John McCain. read more There's ...
• Open Left (#): ... McCain taps former lobbyist for Burmese dictatorship to run GOP convention. (ed.note: For longtime TPMers, also note that Doug Goodyear is CEO of the DCI Group, the pioneering GOP astro-turf organizing outfit.) --Josh ...
• James Fallows (#): ... (*About McCain: if it really is true that he has given a major convention role to a lobbyist who represented the Burmese junta, McCain needs to dump that person forthwith -- or be pilloried for not doing so every day between now and the election. **About China: the latest outrage by ...
• THE NEW REPUBLIC | Blogs (#): ... Doug Goodyear, chief executive of the lobbying firm DCI Group, resigned a few hours after Newsweek posted a report online saying the company was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent the government in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Sleazy lobbyists? ...