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...road that led to Johnson's withdrawal began back in February, when Obama and his Democratic allies started highlighting the many lobbyist ties that bind together the Republican campaign of John McCain. "His top advisers in the campaign are lobbyists," Obama told his traveling press, making no secret of his disdain for politicians who fraternize with influence brokers...
...Obama's admission of the obvious was selectively applied. Even as he criticized the "game," his allies sent out e-mails announcing that the man leading McCain's vice presidential search, Arthur B. Culvahouse, was - you guessed it - a former lobbyist. To make matters even more complicated - and absurd - Culvahouse used to lobby for Fannie Mae, the rich and well-connected mortgage company where Johnson previously served as chairman and CEO. (Full disclosure: Time Warner, the parent company of TIME, is another of Culvahouse's former clients...
...Except it wasn't. McCain had been leaning on current and former lobbyists for months in part because he's never had a grassroots fund-raising operation akin to Obama's. As a result, he had to shoot down questions about all the special pleaders working for his campaign. "These people have honorable records," he said in February. "And they're honorable people." But his new policy, which was stricter than what some senior advisers favored, undid all that straight talk and prompted a weeklong purge inside the campaign. A number of lobbyists were tossed over the side overnight, generating...
...Others suggested that the lobbyist problem will make fund raising even harder and has slowed the efforts to scale McCain's lean, insurgent campaign to the size he and his party will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much...
...President and statehooder Kenneth McClintock, while the statehooder vying to represent Puerto Rico in Washington is with Obama. Current representative Luis Fortuño, a statehooder who is challenging Gov. Vila, is already a delegate for Senator John McCain. (Incidentally, McCain adviser Charlie Black is known as the G.O.P. lobbyist to see in Washington when it comes to Puerto Rico issues.) The unorthodox cross-party appeals being made by both Clinton and Obama has brought a new phenomenon to Puerto Rico's politics; at Clinton rallies in Ponce and Vieques, commonwealther mayors and their statehooder challengers have introduced each other...