McCain Camp: Advisor Linked to Abramoff No Longer with CampaignJohn 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.