Did Scheunemann Engineer McCain’s 2005 Nobel Prize Nomination Of Georgian President For Financial Gain?
Did Scheunemann Engineer McCain’s 2005 Nobel Prize Nomination Of Georgian President For Financial Gain?
The Washington Post reports today that Sen. John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann may have used his position in the McCain campaign for his own financial benefit by advancing the interests of his former lobbying client, the Georgian government:
Sen. John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser prepped his boss for an April 17 phone call with the president of Georgia and then helped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee prepare a strong statement of support for the fledgling republic.
The day of the call, a lobbying firm [Orion Strategies] partly owned by the adviser, Randy Scheunemann, signed a $200,000 contract to continue providing strategic advice to the Georgian government in Washington.
The McCain campaign responded saying, “Georgia’s lobbying contract with Orion Strategies had no bearing on the candidate’s decision to speak with President Mikheil Saakashvili and did not influence his statement,” they said.
But there appears to be more evidence of Scheunemann using McCain for financial gain. In 2005, operating as Georgia’s lobbyist, Scheunemann may have engineered McCain’s nomination of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for the Nobel Peace Prize just before his contract with the Georgian government was due to expire. Here are the details:
– In March 2004, Scheunemann signed his first contract worth $150,000 with the Georgian government to provide “advice and consulting services concerning Georgia’s full integration into Western institutions.” By the time the contract was signed, McCain had become a favorite target of Scheunemann’s lobbying.
– As Scheunemann’s year-long contract with Georgia neared expiration, McCain and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) nominated Saakashvili for the Nobel Peace Prize, despite his mixed human and civil rights record. On January 25, 2005, McCain and Clinton wrote that Saakashvili had “won popular support for the universal values of democracy, individual liberty, and civil rights.”
– On March 15, 2005 — just weeks after being nominated for the Nobel Prize — Saakashvili’s government signed a new 12-month contract with Scheunemann, worth nearly a quarter-million dollars.
Given this context, Scheunemann’s lobbying is troubling. Rather than simply advocating on behalf of the Georgian government, is Scheunemann, in fact, able to manipulate McCain’s policy statements for his own financial gain?
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A lobbyist manipulating Grampy McSame?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pmNaw, I really couldn’t believe THAT about McMaverick!
Gooooooo Fascism!!!!!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:13 pm.
After all that lobbying…
After all that cash…
…McSpeak still could not pronounce Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili’s name correct.
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August 13th, 2008 at 1:15 pmAnd media networks will all reply in unison, “So?”
And they will report that Obama is enjoying an exotic and foreign vacation, while McCain is memorizing a few pat phrases from Scheunemann.
McCain’s knee-jerk reaction to the Russia/Georgia conflict is typical warmonger — reflexive talk of fighting and war.
Obama took time to think and reply in his usual calm and pragmatic fashion — not good enough for the msm, though.
No knee-jerking from Obama — he must not be “ready.”
God, they make me sick. McCain makes me sick. The RNC and all their members make me sick.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pmWell it’s good to know not all the lobbyists telling McCain what to do are blond bimbos. That must be a relief for Cindy.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pmWhy is it that, almost each and every day, the Republican party is so very happy to lower their expectations? Influence peddling is one thing, but this is beyond absurd. McInsane’s stated that he’s known Georgia’s president for 25 years, yet the man’s 41 years old. Some people are wondering!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pmThere is No bottom to this abyss; the agony of the Republican slo-motion train wreck goes on, and on.
Impeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Marie, Color me sick, too. Pray for a landslide victory that cannot be overcome with rigged voting machines, and hopefully this sewer can start getting cleaned out along with the rats that dwell there.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:23 pmMcConflict of Interest.
¶ AIO
August 13th, 2008 at 1:23 pmDoes McLame have the ability to nominate someone for a Nobel prize. He’s not on the committee and hasn’t won one himself. So if he did it was just a vanity thing.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pmTypical.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pmis Scheunemann, in fact, able to manipulate McCain’s policy statements for his own financial gain?
No manipulation needed, repukes take care of their own, no matter what kind of corruption or crime needs to take place.
Winning and profits at any cost.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pmAnne Says:
Does McLame have the ability to nominate someone for a Nobel prize. He’s not on the committee and hasn’t won one himself. So if he did it was just a vanity thing.
Have the Republicans done anything to make you think that vanity is NOT one of their main concerns?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pm#
Buckie Boy Says:
is Scheunemann, in fact, able to manipulate McCain’s policy statements for his own financial gain?
No manipulation needed, repukes take care of their own, no matter what kind of corruption or crime needs to take place.
Winning and profits at any cost.
And hookers for everybody!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pmNot a surprise if he’d gotten the Medal of Freedom, but the Nobel Prize? Surely they have some standards, unlike the Bushies.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pmOh, at first glance I thought it was Onion. My sincerest apologies to theonion.com
August 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pmAny time there is a nickel to be made, sharks like Scheunemann will swoop in to snap it up–morals and principles be damned. I wonder if Scheunemann even blushed when Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili asked McCain to put up or shut up.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pmSo if he did it was just a vanity thing.
For Scheunemann, he’s Johnny McGoldmine.
Do we really need Henry Blake as president? And Radar O’Scheunemann, sticking papers under his nose, saying, “Sign here, Mr. President?”
August 13th, 2008 at 1:36 pmAmazing how JM can take a crap withour Scheunemanns’ or Davis’ permission.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pmMaybe Johnny Boy’s campaign needs to be renamed the Straight-FlipFlop Express, powered exclusively by Lobbyist Dollars(TM)
August 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pmI always thought that actions spoke louder than words. Yet everything that McCain has done has been in direct contradiction to the things that he’s said. But he media continues to trumpet the ‘maverick’ card based on the things that McCain has said… no on what he’s actually done.
At what point do we look at the media and ask them to either do their jobs, or get out of the way of people who can.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pmWhat does Hilary have to say? This could get very interesting?!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pmMcCain’s nomination of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for the Nobel Peace Prize? Mikheil is just a worthless, lying fascist war criminal. He ordered the pre-meditated slaughter of the citizens of South Ossetia with bombings and raids where Georgian tanks ran over people and Georgian soldiers set fire to South Ossetian churches and burned people alive. See the television news show, Russia Today or visit their web site, http://www.russiatoday.com for more details (note: not easily watched).
August 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pmGreat! Another Rethug puppet team. America, you are being warned everyday, every which way, that McCain is ’susceptible’ to input. Questionable input.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:22 pmGlobalization of graft
August 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm$ 800,000 in business. This is a gigantic amount when compared to what other Repubs have sold themselves for.
No question this would buy a war (not to mention that a war fuels the war machine which is also a prominent backer of McCain – so the price is even more.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:23 amMcCain has “known 41 year old Mikheil for 25 YEARS”???? Musta met at Foley’s house . . . .
The Campaign Staff of hired lobbyists using McCain like a box of cheap rubbers at a frat party is beyond belief. This man has lost all pretext of the once might “Maverick” image he so carefully crafted from piles of bullshit.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:33 amThis is another example that the “old world jounalism of Murrow, Cronkite and Rather is dead and buried. In the case of the Time Magazine reporter Ms Tumulty, she seems to think the finding out the who, what, where, when and how have been replaced with a steno pad, which she records what ABC said in rebuttle to the complaint of Congressman Kucinich. There is a great disconnect with what happened and the points made by ABC. She asks little of no questions to ABC. She takes what is handed to her and repeats it vebatim and then calls that reporting. I call is stenography. Lida Sohbet sohbet sesli chat Gelinlik Modelleri
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Scheunemann may have engineered McCain’s nomination of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for the Nobel Peace Prize just before his contract with the Georgian government was due to expire. Here are the details:
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