Not only does the
McCain campaign have more current and former lobbyist bundlers than any other
candidate, but McCain has more current and former lobbyists working on his
campaign staff than any other candidate in the 2008 presidential election. Media Matters for America has previously catalogued the
extensive number of lobbyists and their deep connections to industries, such as
the communications industry, which McCain oversaw as chairman of the Senate Commerce
Committee.
As the graphic below illustrates, McCain's presidential campaign is chock full of former and current lobbyists. Point your mouse at one of the campaign staffers surrounding McCain to see who they have lobbied for.
McCain staffers who have left the campaign due to potential
lobbying conflict-of-interest issues but who are not represented in the graphic
below include Doug Davenport and
Eric Burgeson.
Doug Goodyear,
whom McCain chose to run the Republican National Convention, also resigned from
his post after it was revealed that his firm had lobbied for the military junta
in Myanmar. The graphic below has been updated to account for recent changes in personnel and lobbyist status.