Lobbyist Week, Day 3: resigned to corruption

A number of McCain's lobbyist buddies have resigned from the campaign. Tom Loeffler, discussed yesterday, is one. Another, Craig Shirley, left to work on an anti-Hillary 527 -- 527s can't coordinate with campaigns. No scandal there. Here are the other three who have had to go. Would you want these guys on the Straight Talk Express if you were John McCain? I wouldn't. But then, I'm not John McCain.

Doug Goodyear: GOP convention Chair chosen by McCain. Resigned.
Goodyear’s firm , DCI Group, represented Burma’s (Myanmar’s) military junta. This is the same junta still in power today that withheld aid to its citizens after a cyclone destroyed much of Myanmar’s coastline in May of this year. Goodyear’s firm also launched a PR campaign on behalf of the Burmese junta with the goal of denouncing "falsehoods" by the US government about them.

According to the same source, DCI ran illegal 527 groups during the 2004 Bush campaign, and was later fined. Other clients of Goodyear's firm include ExxonMobil and General Motors.

DOUG DAVENPORT: campaign regional manager. Resigned.
Works for Goodyear's DCI group. Founded their lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with the Myanmar military junta. Yes, the same junta that forces children into military service.

Eric Burgeson: Energy Advisor. Resigned.
Eric Burgeson had to resign as McCain's advisor on energy policy, because he was the head lobbyist on behalf of the energy industry for Barbour Griffith and Rogers (BGR), a lobby firm in Washington, DC.

Yes, you're reading right. John McCain let an active energy lobbyist "advise" him on energy policy. Or wait, is that "lobby" him on energy policy? Or just write the policy for him?? You can't tell from reading this blog, but I'm really not such a liberal. So when I'm amazed that the so-called "liberal media" wasn't all over this story, that's something. I mean, juntas are one thing, but liquid coal is quite another.