Adviser’s Firm Pockets $$ While Counseling McCain on Georgia
Sheesus…I’ll just cut and paste this gem.
Adviser’s Firm Pockets $$ While Counseling McCain on Georgia
Welcome to the McCain administration, where your foreign policy will be run by lobbyists and your president will be prepped by paid flacks for diplomatic phone calls:
While Aide Advised McCain, His Firm Lobbied for Georgia
Campaign Dismisses Timing of Phone Call, ContractBy Matthew Mosk and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff WritersSen. John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser prepped his boss for an April 17 phone call with the president of Georgia and then helped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee prepare a strong statement of support for the fledgling republic.
The day of the call, a lobbying firm partly owned by the adviser, Randy Scheunemann, signed a $200,000 contract to continue providing strategic advice to the Georgian government in Washington.
by kos diarist SusanG
BTW – Mike Castle think John McCain would be a great President.
Just sayin’
awesome advice he got.
can I say I love how you are the first person to comment on your own post
I think this whole “McCain” campaign is just a set up by Rove to make Bush not look so terrible.
It happens.
So while Scheunemann has been working for McCain’s campaign, he has collected $70K in fees from Georgia.
AND — The contacts often focused on Georgia’s aspirations to join NATO and on legislative proposals, including a measure co-sponsored by McCain that supported Georgia’s position on South Ossetia, one of the Georgian regions taken over by Russia this weekend.
These are exactly the US policies that Saakashvili thought were his cover for this very unwise business. And now Saakashvili is calling our McCain to do something besides talk.