McCain’s lobbyist purge: All the foreign agents but one?
Five McCain campaign staffers and volunteers have now been shown the door over their lobbying activities and/or status as foreign agents. WaPo reports on the latest:
Tom Loeffler, the national finance co-chairman for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, resigned yesterday because of his lobbying ties, a campaign adviser said.
This StoryHe is the fifth person to sever ties with the campaign amid a growing concern over whether lobbyists have too great an influence over the Republican nominee. Last week, campaign manager Rick Davis issued a new policy that requires all campaign personnel to either resign or sever ties with lobbying firms or outside political groups.
“The campaign over the last week or so obviously had a perception problem with regards with this whole business of lobbyists and their work,” spokesman Brian Rogers said. “This is really all about setting a policy so that we can just get through that perception problem and the issues that come up with regards to lobbyists affiliated with the campaign and move on.”
A left-wing outfit has a few more top McCain aides on its hit list.
But not a word from either the MSM or the lefties about McCain Hispanic outreach advisor Juan Hernandez, the former Mexican cabinet official who lobbied aggressively for illegal alien rights and benefits in the US on behalf of a foreign government. He still serves as a fellow at the conflict-of-interest-clouded Reform Institute funded with money from George Soros while continuing to advance Mexico’s open-borders agenda and drumming up campaign cash for McCain, most recently, as I reported earlier this month, for Cinco de Mayo.
So: What about Juan?
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Juan Hernandez needs to go to work for Obama or Hillary. If McCain doesn’t get rid of him I will change my party status to ‘independent’.
Adios Juan? I’m with you Gemini #1. I can’t vote for McInsane with Juan on his staff.
I agree with #1’s comment. I refuse to vote for any of the three stooges.
I dont think that McShamnesty will say “Adios, Amigos!” to Juan.
He’s doing a job other americans just wont do…
being a traitor to our country, usurping our borders and lobbying for people to break the law.
Note to Republican Leadership Elitists > you will not win without the Republican Base = Redo 1996. Oh forget it you gave us McCain see ya in 2012.
is it because the juan is supposed to have a dual citizenship? however, he does violate the 14th ammendment’s requirements to have no other allegiances. i guess we need to sit down with McNut and see if he knows and understands the constitution, given his fight for mccain-feingold i am seriously doubting he has any (understanding).
agreed with #1, never gonna vote for any of these constitutional party gets my vote for potus this year.
How dare you criticize McCain!!
How dare you question him!!
Now shut up and get in line.
Sincerely,
McCain Supporters
Juan? You know you can’t ask questions about him! That would be racist!
The only “Juan” you can say anything about is “Panamanian Strongman Juan” McCain.
Deer Senior McCain… eet ees raceest eef you fire me………jore freind, Juan
We have every right to criticize Juan McAmnesty! He is NOT for the citizens of The United States of America. He IS for criminal activity and making it legal. Screw him!
All of my recommendations are illegal.
From Juan “Haterade” Hernandez’s website
Wouldn’t that be wonderful!!!! A joint Congress of the US and Mexico. Then we could become one Nation. What a great idea.
I don’t think so.
Sovereignty is one.
Not two.
We can’t have joint-reps because this is not an issue where Mexico can have a say. It is our country, our rules, and our agenda.
The borders are there for a reason. I am sick of this non-sense. Build a wall. Have national ID cards for every American and stop the illegal immigration, then idiots like Juan Hernandez can leave. Also, ID cards for everyone voting, so the illegal’s can’t get their say, because they’re not suppose to have say. Let’s criminalize the crime, instead of trying to rationalize it.
Mr.McCain, Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa, he has alot of pull so watch out. He might be trying to get your senate seat when you lose in November.
Sorry MM, you aren’t allowed to include Juan, that would be racist.
/sarc off
oops, seems I got beaten to that line about 10 times lol.
Anybody have a link for the Constitution party?
Just replied to Mitch McConnell’s
e-message asking for $$$$ to save the GOP.
GUESS what I wrote?
Please take care of -PORK spending-Feingold- Rep. weakness ie:no fight for judges - Lesser of Two Evils mentality…open borders…etc etc.etc.
Mitch-will you let me know when these areas have been “fixed” and I’ll give $$$$ again and volunteer again?
For you all:
juanhernandez@juanhernandez.org
Do it up.
The ONLY reason to vote for Juan McCain is the hope he will nominate conservative Judges.
Other than I will not vote “FOR” Juan McCain more so against the other.
Crappy choice.
Juan Hernandez = no vote for McCain
I agree, Doc. The only problem is getting them confirmed if our losses in November are anywhere near what they expect us to lose.
Doc - I feel the same way! Every time I read all these things about McCain, I feel so depressed! But I just watched Obama’s speech in Montana, and heard what he said in Portland yesterday, and I just can’t imagine how much peril we will be in if he is elected!
I have three main concerns: Iraq, Supreme Court nominations, and Immigration.
As bad as McCain is, the alternative is sooooo much worse! And we can work for the next four years on lifting Conservatism back up. I practically start retching when I think of the type of judges Obama would choose, and as Commander in Chief… it’s just too scary.
But I understand where y’all are coming from
unrelated, but I’m pi55ed..
Uncle Sam Mortgages
THE FHASecure loans basically refinance loans to lower fixed rates guaranteed by the federal government, which means those irresponsible who took the risk of subprime mortgages are actually being rewarded, whereas those who were responsible are penalized with higher fixed rates and are not even eligible for FHASecure refinancing to at least even the playing field.
Here’s what really annoys: FHA announced that it had helped 200,000 mortgage holders remain in their homes through FHASecure. But only a small number of the people so far helped by FHASecure - about 3,000, according to FHA - were those in imminent danger of losing their homes. Instead, they were borrowers who were current on their payments who wanted to refinance out of high-cost loans.
So the whole bailout proposal that almost every responsible taxpaying citizen opposed went ahead anyway, but instead of helping those about to be foreclosed on, it’s helping those that have been able to afford to meet payments anyway!
WHY? WHY WHY WHY????
Meanwhile the FHASecure people are patting themselves on the back for it, and are proposing to subsidize an additional 300,000 mortgages, on top of the 200,000 they have already subsidized!
This is so so so unfair!!!
Irresponsible borrowers get preferential treatment. Illegal aliens bet preferential treatment. What do law-abiding taxpayers get? THE BILL!!!
Why should I bother working? Why should I bother being responsible? The rewards are there, as long as you don’t deserve them.
Exactly!
i got that email as well. i didnt have anything nice to say, so i deleted it.
they wont get a dime from me until they turn their act around.
Thanks Silky. Emailing now.
I just sent Juan McAmnesty a letter including some McCain Pesos and an explanation of why I will not be voting for him.
I hope the money helps him though.
Dagney T: here is the link to the Constitution Party
This is their mission:
As copied from their website
Constitution Party Mission Statement
It has been said that if the conservatives don’t vote then they are part of the problem, however, I say this, John McCain and friends have taken a gamble that the conservatives will be there because of who he is running against and won’t stay home.
If John McCain loses it’s not because the conservatives stayed home even though they may but because he took the gamble and lost.
I listen to Michelle Obama, Baracka Obama and Hillary then think, McCain is the alternate. The ONLY alternate. Then
he opens his yap. I don’t know what I will do. I won’t stay home. There are other local/State issues.
Fairyfoose, do what many of us are doing - vote at levels where you have a viable option, but leave POTUS blank, or write-in if you are able (the antiquated one-arm-bandit voting machines in use where I vote don’t allow for the option to write in a candidate).
I’m guessing mine would be too, AJ.
McCain can’t get rid of Hernandez - with McCain, it’s “All for Juan,and Juan for all”.
Hernandez needs to give up his duel citizenship and choose a country. McCain needs to dump him no matter which country he chooses.
Still planning on writing in “none of the above” in November. Either way you look at it any of these 3 stooges win the Republic is screwed.
The choices for POTUS to come this November remind me of a movie that was just as rank. *sigh*
Yup Boomer, although if we’re going to get screwed no matter what, I’d rather a democrat take the blame than a republican, even though it’s a RINO.
Good point, Michelle.
Maybe the 6th time’s a charm!
I have the feeling that “John Hernand” (ha!) will become too much of a dead load over the course of the next few months, and that he may well go. It’s been a rather unpredictable last 6 months; excited about the next 6!
There will be plenty of Dims that will vote for Juan even if they say they are going to vote for the arab..errrr, black guy, but in secret they will vote for Juan. And juan knows it.
I know this sounds racist with today’s pc and all that, but seriously, Google “Operation Wetback” …It is NOT impossible to deport those breaking the law….which is ALL of them…Then go to work on a worker program that is controlled and benefits all parties, especially the U.S. taxpayer
Jiobaobubai
Got a link for the McCain Pesos?
I was a little confused as to which Juan you meant — I think there’s another one this could apply to.
if you think McCain is going to nominate conservative judges, think again. you heard his bs about global warming. no way is he going to nominate judges who don’t agree with his global warming hysteria bs.
also. on illegal aliens, you know he does not want a conservative judge there either.
nor does he want judges who want to rule to keep Gitmo as the place for illegal combatants, or use coercive interrogation techniques.
so, forget the conservative judge angle for McCain.
there is NO reason to vote for McCain. our sovereign nation will become an Obama-nation or an abomination either way you vote.
The amount of money illegals get from US taxpayers: families, health care, schools with bi-lingual classes, food, houses that we pay for with all utilities, universities they get lower fees American’s don’t get, stealing SS #’s, voting, etc. ect. ect. As I can tell by most posting here, we BEEEE not happy. The only people making money are those who hire illegals and elected who get their wallets fattened by people like juan who wants to see it continues. I don’t see anyone elected or soon to be elected that will change this. I can not for the life of me understand why!
L
If you people still think Juan has a chance in Nov. you should go over to the RNCC website and check out the comments there from conservatives sick of having their party highjacked by liberals.Their deserting in droves. About 750 posts the last time I looked and not one thing positive said about the party or McChump. As one poster said I hope the polar bears and illegal aliens turn out for you Juan, cause it sure as hell looks like we ain’t.(paraphasing). Don’t waste your vote on McCrazy, write in a real conservative, and help local candidates you agree with,the Republican Party is dead until they get their act together with some conservative ideas, not Dhim lite.
Can anyone tell me why I should not stay home in November? After all, it took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Regan.
The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t….maybe we should all vote for Hitlery
But what about Iraq? Obama won’t let us finish our job, leaving the Middle East (and thus the world) a massively more dangerous place, and all the lives lost will have been for naught.
Looks like it could be a Juan & Juan ticket ~
Juan & Juan es Dos
Libertybelle, I don’t think either Hillary or Obama would pull the troops out of Iraq like they state. It’s all talk. I did like the snub Iraq gave Pelosi.
After voting for Governor Arnold, I vowed to never vote for another Democrat in my life. I can’t vote for McCain after making that vow. He’s a Democrat that’s a little to the left of Hillary.
McCain thinks he can win with Independants. What he doesn’t realize ( because he is clueless) is that many became independants because we were disgusted with the NEOCONS and the RINOS. He is a loser and I will NEVAH vote for him.
Hey Michelle, can you do an update on the Jamiel Shaw story? I just heard on the radio Shaw Sr’s biggest nightmare come true. Black activist leaders have teamed with Latino activist and they are calling on “myspace” to pull all “gang” related sites. THey claim that Jamiel was not killed because of his race (which is the truth) but rather the lie that Jamiel was in a gang.
I think we owe his mother and father this attention. Jamiel’s law must get passed.
uhangtight,
I’m with you on the Constitution Party.
“This is really all about setting a policy so that we can just get through that perception problem and the issues that come up with regards to lobbyists affiliated with the campaign and move on.”
“perception problem”…how about truth problem. McCain is in bed with the lobbyists as much as any other politician. Just because they leave now doesn’t mean they’re not still on speed dial or friends list calling.
Juan, is the only friend McCain will have left by Nov.After 57 yrs of conservative voting, i am a Independant, and will vote against every member of McCain’s party! No Amnesty!
all lobbyists gone except Hernandez.
remember that song? “Juan is the Lonliest Number”?
LOL Senator Phillip Buster #53.
I’M VOTING FOR KINKY.
I’m just sooooooo absolutely frightened of Obama and what four years under his Marxist, Globalist rule would yield. I agree with all of the criticisms of McCain, but I don’t see how letting Obama win (especially with a Democratic legislature to back him up) could be any better. I know that McCain is pulling the Republican party to the left, but I feel hopeful (hahahahahha) that we can still band together and revitalize the Conservative movement and the ridiculous Republican party even if McCain is elected.
To McCain and his ilk (both parties), Mexico is in essence our 51st state. Either that, or we are one of their provinces. It is one of the reasons the RINO party has moved so far to left under Bush’s direction. The fantasy is if only they pander enough to the “Latino” vote, it will enable the RINO party to be (yawn) the majority party forever.
McCain might as well make Juan his running-mate and get it over with.
I don’t remember where I found them, but I’ll see if I can dig it up. We should all “donate.”
Azygos:
Here you go:
http://uncooperativeblogger.blogspot.com/2008/02/send-mccain-peso.html
Let’s all be generous!!
I owe Mexico nothing.
Their border crossing folks are picking my pocket.
If Federal Law means nothing that gives me some ideas…Hmmmmm
Well Juan Hernandez could be the straw that broke the McCain back. Senator McCain was so rude, nasty and dismissive to those of us upset with the McCain-Kennedy Amnesty that I can well belive just enough of the offended will sit home that terrible tuesday. I have often felt that much of President Bush’s low approval rating comes from his amnesty stand–millions of us just walked away.
Entirely too much and too many of the Republican Elite, or would be Elite, never learned that loyalty is a two way street. Senator McCain and his sister baby Senator Grahm are as bad as any.
Just maybe. Just turn out to vote for any Real Republicans running for other offices.
The people in Arizona that live along the Mexican border have been begging McShame for 15 years to build a fence along the border because we were tired of the illegals trashing our property. His response was ALWAYS over my dead body will the U.S. build a fence between us and our GOOD FRIENDS from the south. I would not vote for this man even if he was the only one running!!!
Right on #16! When I got his letter I marked other and wrote in NADA. I attached a note that said when we QUIT running RINOS and get back to a conservative agenda instead of democrap lite then my wife and I will resume supporting the Republican Party again with real money!!!
While I feel your pain, I remember the Carter years all too vividly, and the only thing worse would have been the Great Depression. It was a miserable time. Yes, it got us a Reagan, but there has to be a better way. Carter IS the devil you do know, or best remember.
And the truly sad part: we are still afflicted by Carter today.