[CitizensTruth] Exposed: McCain team includes 83 Wall Street lobbyists

[Daniel Stafford]

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*Exposed: McCain team includes 83 Wall Street lobbyists

*As Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rails against Wall Street while concurrently 
benefiting from its largesse, some journalists are getting tired.

David Corn -- an investigative reporter formerly with /The Nation/ and 
currently reporting for /Mother Jones/ -- _has printed_ 
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9753_mccain_campaign_lobbyists_wall_street_aig.html> 
a list of 83 Wall Street lobbyists he says are working for or have 
bundled contributions for McCain. The Democratic National Committee has 
previously accused McCain of using 177 lobbyists 
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080913/pl_usnw/dnc_releases_report___no_reformer__mccain_puts_lobbyists_first_while_americans_struggle> 
either as campaign aides, advisers or fundraisers.

Corn notes that former Sen. Phil Gramm, the Arizona senator's onetime 
campaign chairman and economic adviser, slipped into law a provision 
that kept credit default swaps unregulated, dramatically kindling to the 
current financial fires.

"Of those 177 lobbyists, according to a Mother Jones review of Senate 
and House records, at least 83 have in recent years lobbied for the 
financial industry McCain now attacks," Corn writes. "These are 
high-paid influence-peddlers who have been working the corridors of the 
nation's capital to win favors and special treatment for investment 
banks, securities firms, hedge funds, accounting outfits, and insurance 
companies. Their clients have included AIG, the newest symbol of 
corporate excess; Lehman Brothers, which filed for bankruptcy on Monday 
sending the stock market into a tailspin; Merrill Lynch, which was 
bought out by Bank of America this week; and Washington Mutual, the 
banking giant that could be the next to fall.

"Among these 83 lobbyists are McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie 
Black (JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Bankers 
Association of America); McCain's national finance co-chairman, Wayne 
Berman (AIG, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac); the 
campaign's congressional liaison, John Green (Carlyle Group, Citigroup, 
Icahn Associates, Fannie Mae); McCain's veep vetter, Arthur Culvahouse 
(Fannie Mae); and McCain's transition planning chief, William Timmons 
Sr. (Citigroup, Freddie Mac, Vanguard Group)."

Obama's anti-lobbyist rhetoric, meanwhile, has irked other reporters, 
among them /Newsweek/'s Michael Isikoff. Isikoff noted that Obama's 
chief strategist, David Axelrod, worked for a firm that hoodwinked 
Illinois consumers by convincing them a California-style crises would 
befall them unless they increased electric rates.

Axelrod adamantly denied the charge. "I've never lobbied anybody in my 
life," he said. "I've never talked to any public official on behalf of a 
corporate client."

The full McCain list is printed below.

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Phil Anderson: American Council of Life Insurers, Aetna, AIG, New York 
Life, MassMutual, VISA

Rebecca Anderson: Aegon, American Council of Life Insurers, Cigna, 
Barclays, Credit Suisse First Boston, HSBC

Stanton Anderson: The Debt Exchange

David Beightol: Allstate, Amerigroup, Charles Schwab, HSBC

Rhonda Bentz: VISA

Wayne Berman: American Council of Life Insurers, AIG, Americhoice, 
Shinsei Bank, Blackstone, Carlyle Group, Broidy Capital Management, 
Credit Suisse Securities, Highstar Capital, VISA, Ameriquest Mortgage, 
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fitch Ratings

Charlie Black: JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage 
Bankers Association of America, National Association of Mortgage Brokers

Judy Black: Colorado Credit Union League, Genworth Financial, Bay 
Harbour Management, Merrill Lynch

Kirk Blalock: Credit Union National Association, Financial Executives 
International, American Insurance Association, Mutual of Omaha, Zurich 
Financial Service Group, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Carlos Bonilla: Financial Services Roundtable, Freddie Mac

Christine Burgeson: Citigroup

Mark Buse: Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, Manufacturers Life Insurance Company

Nicholas Calio: Citigroup, Managed Fund Association, Fannie Mae, Merrill 
Lynch, The Investment Company Institute, TIAA-CRE, Securities Industry 
and Financial Markets Association

Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Amscot Financial Corporation, Community 
Financial Services Association, Fidelity National Financial

Andrew Cantor: American Insurance Association, Merrill Lynch

Alberto Cardenas: Fannie Mae

James Courter: Goldman Sachs, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Investment 
Company Institute, Merrill Lynch

David Crane: Financial Services Roundtable, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 
Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Bank of America, Association of 
Corporate Credit Unions, Freddie Mac

Dan Crippen: Merrill Lynch, National Multi-Housing Council

Arthur Culvahouse: Fannie Mae

Bryan Cunningham: Arch Capital Group

Alfonse D'Amato: AIG, Freddie Mac

Doug Davenport: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Goldman Sachs, VISA

Ashley Davis: Prudential Financial, American Financial Group, American 
Premier Underwriters, Great American Insurance Company

Mimi Dawson: MassMutual

Melissa Edwards: Freddie Mac, National Association of Real Estate 
Investment Trusts, Access to Capital Coalition

Chris Fidler: American Bankers Association, Milcom Venture Partners, 
National Association Real Estate Investment Trusts

Samuel Geduldig: American Bankers Association, American Institute of 
CPAs, America Gains, Berkshire Hathaway, Consumer Bankers Association, 
Ernst & Young, Financial Services Roundtable, Investment Company 
Institute, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Prudential Financial, Sovereign 
Investment Council, Fidelity Investments, FMR Corp.

Benjamin Ginsberg: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, AIG Technical 
Services

David Girard-Dicarlo: American Financial Group, American Premier 
Underwriters

Juleanna Glover Weiss: RJI Capital, American Institute of CPAs, BNP 
Paribas, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Slade Gorton: Allstate Insurance, Hannan Armstrong Capital

Phil Gramm: UBS Americas

John Green: Laredo National Bank, Alternative Investment Management 
Association, AIG, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Credit 
Suisse Group, Fannie Mae, Icahn Associates, FMR Corp., AFLAC, VISA

Janet Grissom: American Institute of CPAs, NYSE, Merrill Lynch

Kristen Gullott: San Diego Credit Union

Kent Hance: Stanford Financial Group, Municipal Capital Markets Group, Inc.

Vicki Hart: American Financial Services Association, Citigroup, 
Investment Company Institute, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, New York 
Stock Exchange, VISA, Carlyle Group, Credit Suisse, Federal Home Loan 
Bank of Indianapolis, Goldman Sachs, National Association of Government 
Guaranteed Lenders, Stanford Group, Lloyd's of London, National City Corp.

Richard Hohlt: Capmark Financial Group, Fannie Mae, JP Morgan Chase and 
Co., Student Loan Marketing Association, Washington Mutual, Guaranty 
Bank & Trust, Peachtree Settlement Funding, Dime Savings Bank of New York

Gaylord Hughey: Heartland Security Insurance Group

Kate Hull: Credit Union National Association, Fannie Mae, Federal Home 
Loan Bank of San Francisco, Zurich Financial Services, American 
Insurance Association, Financial Executives International

James Hyland: American Insurance Association, Seattle Home Loan Bank, 
Self Help Credit Union, National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, 
Merrill Lynch, Mortgage Investors Corp., Federal Home Loan Bank of 
Indianapolis, Freddie Mac, New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup, VISA

Aleix Jarvis: Credit Union National Association, Fannie Mae, Federal 
Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Financial Executives International, 
Mutual of Omaha, American Insurance Association, Zurich Financial Services

Greg Jenner: American Council of Life Insurers, JG Wentworth, UBS, VISA, 
PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Frank Keating: American Council of Life Insurers

Steven Kuykendall: California Bankers Association

William Lesher: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Commerce Ventures, Rabobank 
International

Thomas Loeffler: Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Investment Company Institute, 
World Savings and Loan Association, United Services Automobile 
Association (USAA)

Kelly Lugar: RJI Capital Strategies

Peter Madigan: Arthur Andersen, Bank of New York, Broadridge Securities 
Processing, Charles Schwab, Deloitte and Touche, Goldman Sachs, 
International Employee Stock Option Coalition, Mastercard, NYSE, Fannie 
Mae, Merrill Lynch, PNC Bank

Mary Mann: MassMutual

Paul Martino: Morgan Stanley, Baker Tilly

Jana McKeag: Venture Catalyst

Alison McSlarrow: Fannie Mae, Hartford

Mike Meece: Georgetown Partners

David Metzner: Ernst & Young, Harbinger Capital Investments, Prudential, 
Public Financial Management, Western Union

Susan Molinari: Freddie Mac, American Land Title Association, 
Association of Consumer Credit Unions, Beacon Capital Partners, College 
Loan Corp, Coventry First, E-Trade, Financial Services Roundtable, 
Rent-A-Center

John Moran: Cerberus Capital Management, American Council of Life 
Insurers, Accenture

John Napier: Freddie Mac

Susan Nelson: AIG, San Antonio Credit Union

Paul Otellini: Ernst & Young, Financial Services Forum

Steve Perry: Charles Schwab, Hoover Partners, HSBC, National Stock Exchange

Nancy Pfotenhauer: American Land Title Association, Mortgage Bankers 
Association

Elise Pickering-Finley: Credit Suisse, DE Shaw, Hartford Financial 
Services, Research In Motion, Retail Industry Lenders Association, URL 
Mutual

James Pitts: Advanced Association for Life Underwriting, AETNA, American 
Council of Life Insurers, AIG, Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, 
Debt Advisory International, Financial Services Coordinating Council, GE 
Financial Assurance, Hartford Life, Jefferson Pilot Financial, Kenwood 
Investments, MassMutual, Mutual of Omaha, New York Life, UNUM Provident, 
VISA, PMI Group

Tim Powers: AP Capital, Genworth Financial, Retail Industry Lenders 
Association, E-LOAN, General Electric Mortgage Insurance

Walter Price: Wachovia

Sloan Rappoport: Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. (FBR), Trafelet 
Delta Funds

Hans Rickhoff: Capital One, Investment Company Institute, United 
Services Automobile Association (USAA)

Kathleen Shanahan: New York Stock Exchange

Andrew Shore: Accenture, Retail Industry Lenders Association, Barclays, 
Bond Market Association, Credit Suisse, TPG Capital

Katie Stahl: Alliance for Investment Transparency, Ares Management, 
Fairfax Financial Holdings, Uhlmann Financial Group

Milly Stanges: TIAA-CREF

Aquiles Suarez: Fannie Mae

Don Sundquist: Freddie Mac, The Hartford

Peter Terpeluk: JP Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young, Prudential

Fred Thompson: Equitas

Jeri Thompson: American Insurance Association

John Timmons: National Association of Federal Credit Unions

William Timmons Sr.: American Council of Life Insurers, Citigroup, Dun & 
Bradstreet, Freddie Mac, Vanguard Group

Vin Weber: Agstar Financial Services, AKT Investment Corp., American 
Institute of CPAs, Ernst & Young, Freddie Mac, Louis Dreyfus Corp, 
PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Jeffery Weiss: JP Morgan

Tony Williams: Russell Investment Group, American Life Inc., 
Northwestern Mutual
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