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Date: July 22, 2008 11:47:27 PM PDT
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Subject: Strike Three for McBush's "Government of, by, for, and to
the Highest Bidder"
McCain Adviser Found To Have Lobbied For Third Group Tied To
Stephen Payne
By Andrew Tilghman - July 22, 2008, 6:38PM
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
More evidence of ties between John McCain's top foreign policy
adviser and Stephen Payne, the guy caught on video offering to
arrange meetings with top White House officials in exchange for big
donations to the future George W. Bush Presidential Library Fund.
We knew that Randy Scheunemann had worked for two of Payne's firms
in recent years.
Now the AP reports on a third:
International Business & Energy Development Corp., is the third of
Payne's firms to emerge as paying money to Scheunemann. The payments
from mid-2001 to mid-2003 totaled $80,000, for issues ranging from
monitoring legislation concerning global energy developments to
lobbying on a bill authorizing Bush to provide assistance to
Pakistan and India, according to the Senate filings. The post-Sept.
11 legislation lifted the last remaining economic sanctions against
Pakistan.
That brings the total paid by Payne's firms to McCain's adviser to
about $130,000 since 2001.
The McCain campaign said Scheunemann has had no business
relationship with Payne since July 2006 and has no knowledge of
Payne's business activities since that time.
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