McCain Adviser Lobbied Senate Staff While On Presidential Campaign
Is this a big Problem for McCain?
HP-McCain’s lobbyist hits just keep on coming. Even as the campaign moves to curtail the senator’s large number of lobbyist/advisers, new stories come out about his senior strategists. USA Today reports that one of McCain’s top foreign policy advisers lobbied his Senate staff while simultaneously serving on the presidential campaign:
John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser lobbied the Arizona senator’s staff on behalf of the republic of Georgia while he was working for the campaign, public records show.
Randy Scheunemann, founder of Orion Strategies, represented the governments of Macedonia, Georgia and Taiwan between 2003 and March 1, according to the firm’s filings with the Justice Department. In its latest semiannual report, the firm disclosed that Scheunemann had a phone conversation in November about Georgia with Richard Fontaine, an aide in McCain’s Senate office
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