Charlie Black: "McCain Does Favors For No One"
National Journal Contributing Editor Linda Douglass today interviewed Charlie Black, a top adviser to John McCain, about the New York Times report asserting that the senator had an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist. Read the full transcript here, and here's a snippet:
Linda Douglass: So the two main charges in this story -- that he had an inappropriate relationship with this woman and that that inappropriate relationship allowed her clients to get special access to McCain -- those are both untrue?
Charlie Black: They are both untrue. They are completely phony charges. As he said yesterday, he knows her as he knows many lobbyists and representatives of different organizations in Washington. He considers her a friend. Nobody ever suggested anything inappropriate until the New York Times did. And most importantly, John McCain does favors for no one. He's got a lot of friends that he has known for many, many years who lobby. And I guarantee you, nobody gets special treatment or favors. On these kind of issues, John McCain listens to both sides, he'll meet with people on both sides and then he'll make a decision on the merits -- what he sees as best for the country. There are numerous examples of when he has made decisions that went against the interests of his home state or of his own political career. So both are false and certainly nobody has come forward yet and demonstrated where he did a favor for anyone.
if people voted for the issues rather than the "greatspeaches" clinton would be soooo far ahead. What has happened to our country? wake up people
Perhaps gohillary, we have and we disagree with you if that's OK.
"Either McCain was schtupping her, in which case her profession is largely irrelevant. Or he wasn’t, in which case he was just schmoozing inappropriately a lot with a corporate lobbyist."
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But then again, McCains campaign is run almost entirely by lobbyist..."McCain says "HIS" lobbyists are 'honorable,' but they don't work for 'legitimate' causes he picks"
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uh gohillary...we don't want or need a wonk ...we need somebody to lead who will appoint wonks ..smart ones ...Clinton has a good future as an effective senator from New York ...
I love how they say these lobbyists are "volunteers"... and with a straight face!
Yeah right, they come home after their eight-hour jobs or during their weekends to do volunteer work for McCaian.... suuuure.
But the majority of Americans are pretty stupid, that's we have so many lobbyists.
John McCain sure does favors for people in order to get the vote. His office in Arizona was contacted by an individual who was trying to get his wife to come down from Pakistan faster. After notifying his Tucson office, her paper work at the immigration office was taken out from the bottom of the pile and placed on the top. She pretty much got a free ride just because her husband is a constituent of John McCain. Is it legal what the McCain office did?