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By David Knowles - Politics DailyRecently, an old friend of mine sent me a tip for a story. He'd seen something in the campaign that pissed him off, so he fired off an e-mail complete with an embedded picture and a link to a story. When I noted his tech skills, he replied, "We're all bloggers now."True enough. And, if you've been keeping tabs of the user generated political ads on YouTube of late, you may have noticed that we also seem to have become our own 527's, as well. Here are two recent messages not officially approved by Barack Obama or John McCain, nor financed by political action committees. The first takes aim at ...
McCain GOP Convention Chief Short-Lived
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyPresumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain's hand-picked choice for convention manager, Doug Goodyear, resigned after Newsweek ran a story about his lobbying work and involvement in 527 groups in 2004 that were fined for improprieties. McCain has denounced 527 groups as recently as this past February. Goodyear, CEO of the DCI group, a consulting firm that lobbies for ExxonMobil, General Motors and the military junta that runs that great democracy Burma, said in a brief statement, "Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign. ...
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