Richard Hohlt is one of only three lobbyists registered for Washington Mutual this year. Washington Mutual handles most of their own lobbying, but they still paid Holht over $36,000. Also listed among Hohlt’s clients are Fannie Mae and J.P. Morgan. Another interesting thing with Hohlt is that he is listed on McCain’s website as one […]
Richard Hohlt is one of Washington Mutual’s lobbyists, receiving close to $40,000 in the first half of 2007. He is also a major Republican fundraiser and then there is this little gem: Hohlt is also the leader of a group of Washington, DC insiders called the “Off the Record Club” and is known as an […]
Here is the latest one from McCain’s campaign being attributed to Sarah Palin (with my own thoughts injected): When I joined John McCain as his running mate, I knew I was in for a roller coaster ride of ups and downs on the campaign trail. But, I want you to know that I joined John […]
That’s where the price tag is heading on the bailout plan. This is getting beyond absurd. Part of the problem is that all the lobbyists are in full force now trying to get their little piece of this gift from the Bush administration and Congress. RIP America 1776-2008
So we have this bailout that is needed for Wall Street to survive. The only problem is that Wall Street wants the plan carved their way or no way. From the WSJ: House Republican staffers met with roughly 15 lobbyists Friday afternoon, whose message to lawmakers was clear: Don’t load the legislation up with provisions […]
Two high-ranking McCain campaign officials actually lobbied for the companies at the center of the new sex for oil scandal. This is what happens when you have a campaign filled and ran by lobbyists.
A new website has launched showing McCain and all his close buddies, a.k.a. lobbyists. Maverick my ass! If this guy is a Maverick then George Bush is the Dalai Lama.
And I mean she really loves them. $27 million for a town of 6,700? Yeah – she’s a reformist. She will reform the Republican party from putting the country on the verge of bankruptcy, to putting us into bankruptcy.
Isn’t that what McCain kept telling us – that his lobbyists were different? Well now it looks like he is concerned about it: John McCain’s campaign is asking staff members to disclose all previous lobbying ties following the resignation of two officials linked to a firm that worked for Myanmar’s military junta. A memo from […]
You end up getting burned: The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar. We will just file this under the GOP chapter of “profit trumping life”.