{"id":199808,"date":"2007-06-25T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/25\/claude-rains-would-be-shocked-more-lobbyists-on-mccain-staff-than-any-other-08-candidate\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:14:00","slug":"claude-rains-would-be-shocked-more-lobbyists-on-mccain-staff-than-any-other-08-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/25\/claude-rains-would-be-shocked-more-lobbyists-on-mccain-staff-than-any-other-08-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Rains Would be Shocked:  More Lobbyists On McCain Staff Than Any Other 08 Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(It&#8217;s a reference to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Casablanca<\/span>)<br \/>McCain has been dirty since his Keating 5 days.<br \/>BTW, when you read this look at the ads.  I bet that $#@% McCain ad will be back on the right column.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/06\/23\/huffpost-exclusive-more-_n_53456.html\">More Lobbyists On McCain Staff Than Any Other 08 Candidate<\/a><\/span><br \/>John McCain, who made his name attacking special interests, has more lobbyists working on his staff or as advisers than any of his competitors, Republican or Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>A Huffington Post examination of the campaigns of the top three presidential candidates in each party shows that lobbyists are playing key roles in both Democratic and Republican bids &#8211;although they are far more prevalent on the GOP side. But, all the campaigns pale in comparison to McCain&#8217;s, whose rhetoric stands in sharp contrast to his conduct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too often the special interest lobbyists with the fattest wallets and best access carry the day when issues of public policy are being decided,&#8221; McCain asserts on his web site, declaring that he &#8220;has fought the &#8216;revolving door&#8217; by which lawmakers and other influential officials leave their posts and become lobbyists for the special interests they have aided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(It&#8217;s a reference to Casablanca)McCain has been dirty since his Keating 5 days.BTW, when you read this look at the ads. I bet that $#@% McCain ad will be back on the right column. More Lobbyists On McCain Staff Than Any Other 08 CandidateJohn McCain, who made his name attacking special interests, has more lobbyists &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}