The NY Times, which yesterday was accused by the McCan't campaign of being "150% in the tank" with Obama, reports today that McCan't campaign manager Rick Davis, a paid Washington lobbyist, didn't quit his day job when he took the gig with McCan't. It seems that a firm he owned received a $15,000 monthly payment every month from Freddie Mac, recently placed in to conservatorship by the federal government, from the end of 2005 until August 2008. Prior to that, another Davis firm received double that amount per month.
And, of course, there is another McCan't lie exposed. The McCan't campaign -- just this past Sunday night -- released a statement that Davis had had no involvement with Freddie Mac "for the last several years."
Excuse me! I'd like to address my next comments to the McCan't supporters who read this blog.
It is not at all proper for the campaign manager of a presidential candidate to be receiving an income from ANYONE other than the campaign itself. Receiving more than half a million dollars is indisputable evidence of a massive conflict of interest, strongly suggesting that a major corporation had improper access to a presidential candidate. The payments call into question every statement McCan't has made about getting tough with lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats.
Watchdog group Campaign Money Watch has called for McCan't to fire Davis "immediately" if McCan't knew about this relationship.
The Times article also calls McCan't out for his attacks on Obama for having ties to both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The campaign has said that Obama's relationships with the two companies far exceeded whatever relationship Davis had with them, and that McCan't was a leading advocate to reform the companies. Not so, says the Times. Is...is that... yet another lie?
Next time McCan't wants to take on the Times, he'd better not bring a knife to that gun fight.
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