[Grovenet] Fw: He works for McCain...and dictators

[Ed Davie]

Can you believe this?
Ed


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Noah T. Winer, MoveOn.org Political Action
To: Edward W. Davie
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:53 PM
Subject: He works for McCain...and dictators


Dear MoveOn member,
John McCain says he's a defender of democracy. But 
the folks running his campaign have been playing 
for the other team.

Two of John McCain's senior campaign staff were 
forced to resign this week after revelations that 
their lobbying firm was paid hundreds of thousands 
of dollars to represent Burma's brutal military 
dictatorship.1

And it gets worse-turns out this goes all the way 
to the top. Charlie Black, McCain's campaign 
chairman, ran a lobbying firm that represented 
brutal dictators like Ferdinand Marcos in the 
Philippines and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire-along 
with terrorist rebel Jonas Savimbi in Angola. 
Together, these men have been responsible for 
massive human suffering.2


And for good measure, Charlie Black has 
represented war profiteer Blackwater Worldwide and 
Iraqi fraudster Ahmed Chalabi.3


John McCain has a lobbyist problem, and we thought 
he could use your advice. What should Senator 
McCain do about his top adviser, Charlie Black? 
We'll release the results to the media-and forward 
your advice to Senator McCain himself. And we're 
working on a hard-hitting web ad about Charlie 
Black that we'll release soon.


Click below to choose which message to send to 
John McCain:


Fire Black. Fire Charlie Black if he doesn't 
resign first.

Fire all the lobbyists. Fire Charlie Black, plus 
all 112 lobbyists running your campaign,4 
including campaign co-chair Tom Loeffler, who has 
represented the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a 
notorious human rights abuser.5
Don't sweat it. The media is so sold on your 
"maverick" image that corrupt figures in your 
inner circle won't actually hurt you.

Go all in. Hire more lobbyists who've worked for 
evil dictators. Maybe Kim Jong-il or Idi Amin.


Tell us what you think and spread the word! This 
survey's kind of funny, but our goal is deadly 
serious. If hundreds of thousands of us weigh in, 
we can show the media that John McCain's campaign 
has a growing liability: the fact that his inner 
circle is filled with lobbyists who've worked for 
everything he claims to be against.

Thanks for all you do.

-Noah, Karin, Ilyse, Peter, Justin, and the 
MoveOn.org Political Action Team
  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

P.S. McCain's campaign staff have too many 
connections to dictators to list in this email. 
It's unbelievable. But the non-partisan reform 
group Public Campaign Action Fund created a great 
fact sheet laying it all out:

http://www.firethelobbyists.com/facts.html

Sources:
1. "A Lobbying Firm and Its McCain Ties," MSNBC, 
May 12, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3654&id=12653-7071254-WkY_0W&t=5


2. "John McCain's Lobbyist Connections," Public 
Campaign Action Fund
http://www.firethelobbyists.com/facts.html
3. Ibid.

4. "McCain's Lobbyists in Trouble for Foreign 
Lobbying," Progressive Media USA, May 11, 2008
http://www.mccainsource.com/mccain_fact_check?id=0007


5. "McCain Aides Are Tied," New York Sun, May 12, 
2008
http://www2.nysun.com/national/mccain-aides-are-tied/

"Obama Calls on Rice to Address Human Rights 
Violations in Saudi Arabia," November 19, 2007
http://obama.senate.gov/press/071119-obama_calls_on_21/

"Saudi Arabia," Human Rights Watch World Report, 
2007
http://hrw.org/englishwr2k7/docs/2007/01/11/saudia14717.htm

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