Lobbyist to run McCain's Hill effort

[uscitizen]

Lobbyist to run McCain's Hill effort

By: Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor
Mar 4, 2008 04:38 AM EST

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional Republicans — the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in the 2008 presidential race may not be Pennsylvania or Ohio or Florida’s I-4 corridor but rather the floor of the United States Senate.

John Green, a founding partner of what is now Ogilvy Government Relations, will soon take a leave of absence from that firm to work as a full-time liaison between McCain’s presidential campaign and Republicans in the House and the Senate, according to GOP aides on Capitol Hill and McCain surrogates downtown. Green, a Mississippi native, has strong ties in the Senate after his years of work for former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), a vocal McCain supporter who left Congress late last year to set up his own lobbying shop.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/8814.html

 

[cawacko]

This article is great. Once again it shows that the two parties don't actually care if any legislation passes or what effects it may have they are only concerned about thier party and winning. It's not about trying to 'solve' an issue its about how to best use an issue to your advantage.

 

[Battleborne]

Huckabee..............

Is looking better all the time...just wondering where Chuck has gone...haven't seen him on the trail lately!

 

[uscitizen]

Chuckie is getting pumped up on his exercise machine.

 

[Minister of Truth]

No steroids though... Surely he's aware that Congress may subpoena him to testify under oath if he bulks up on Roids...