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McCain Camp: Advisor Linked to Abramoff No Longer with Campaign
John McCain's campaign has taken down a web page that listed lobbyist Carlos Bonilla as an economic advisor.
Bonilla, a former special assistant to the president for economic policy, was included in today's report about White House ties with Jack Abramoff as one of the White House officials who received tickets from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's firm.
A McCain aide said Bonilla was dropped from the campaign a few weeks ago when McCain implemented a tougher conflict-of-interest policy barring most active lobbyists from his team. Bonilla is a senior vice president with the Washington Group.
Campaign workers thought they had already removed the web page, the aide said. It was removed after the page was brought to the campaign's attention by TPMmuckraker.
Bonilla joined the McCain campaign in July 2007. He did not return a phone call for comment today.
Josh
Zachary
Maybe not on THAT page but he IS on this:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/268A0478-50CE-4CB2-8A27-9C74C8FCC8A4.htm
June 9, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is he - lobbyist #7, #8 to leave the McCain campaign? Ought to make a heck of an ad in print media - just a list of all the lobbyists who got booted.
June 9, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
What about Phil Gramm, the Dr. Frankenstein of the subprime crisis?
June 9, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya, and the Enron Loophole taboot.
http://www.google.com/search?q=gramm+enron+loophole&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
June 9, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain, as chairman of the Indian Affairs committee, sat on over 700,000 documents related to an investigation of Abramoff and his associates -- documents that more likely than not would reveal all sorts of connections and criminal activity, though possibly outside the scope of the committee's investigations.
We need to see these documents before November elections!
June 9, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink