Republican operatives Doug Davenport and Doug Goodyear were both quietly released from their duties with the McCain campaign this week when it was revealed that their Washington lobbying firm, DCI Group, had been paid $348,000 to represent Burma’s repressive military junta in 2002.
McCain’s critics noted that top McCain aide Charlie Black has lobbied for authoritarian regimes as nasty or worse than Burma’s, raising the question of whether McCain will cut ties with tainted figures only when it is politically expedient for him to do so.
Republican operatives Doug Davenport and Doug Goodyear were both quietly released from their duties with the McCain campaign this week when it was revealed that their Washington lobbying firm, DCI Group, had been paid $348,000 to represent Burma’s repressive military junta in 2002.
McCain’s critics noted that top McCain aide Charlie Black has lobbied for authoritarian regimes as nasty or worse than Burma’s, raising the question of whether McCain will cut ties with tainted figures only when it is politically expedient for him to do so.
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