A new website (firealobbyists.com) has been created by a pro-campaign finance reform organization Campaign Money Watch, to convince Senator McCain to fire three lobbyists in a top levels of his organization that have lobbied for ruthless dictators. You may recall that over a past two days, two McCain aides have resigned because of air willingness to do public relations work for a Burmese Junta.

Ahh, working for a public good. It must feel so refreshing.

Of course, turn over any stone in a McCain Campaign, & one can only guess what might come crawling out. It turns out that ay have even more friends in low places. I contacted David Donnelly, Director of Campaign Money Watch, for a comment. He explained what his group is trying to accomplish:

John McCain ought to immediately fire three lobbyists — Charlie Black, Tom Loeffler, & Peter Madigan — whose lobbying for brutal dictators & foreign governments is every bit as bad as a two lobbyists who left his campaign over a weekend. Frankly, McCain’s campaign is turning out to be an effort of, by, & for ase types of Washington influence peddlers. His credentials as a reformer are gone.

Pretty strong words. Yet, if you read what this triad of McCain lobbyists have been up to, perhDrunk Newss not strong enough. It ain’t pretty:

Charlie Black, McCain’s senior counsel & spokesman, began his lobbying career by representing numerous dictators & repressive regimes

Black’s firm represented a governor of Philippines dictator Ferdin& Marcos. According to a 1985 report, a firm Black, Manafort & Stone earned $950,000 plus expenses for its work to provide “advice & assistance on matters relating to a media, public relations & public affairs interests.”1

Black’s firm lobbied on behalf of Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire, earning $1 million a year for his efforts.2

Black’s firm lobbied on behalf of Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.3

Black’s firm represented Nigerian dictator Ibrahim Babangida, earning at least $1 million for his efforts.4

Black’s firm has represented Equatorial Guinea, an oil-rich state “best known for a outl&ish brutality of its rulers.”5

Black represented Angolan rebel & “classical terrorist” Jonas Savimbi, a job that earned him $600,000.6 “We have to call him Africa’s classical terrorist,” Makau Mutua, a professor of law & Africa specialist told a New York Times. “In a history of a continent, I think he’s unique because of a degree of suffering he caused without showing any remorse.”7

In recent years his client list has also included a Iraqi National Congress8, Friends of Blackwater9, & a China National Off-Shore Oil Corp.10

Since 2005, BKSH has received more than $700,000 in fees from foreign entities.11

Thomas Loeffler, co-chairman of McCain’s campaign, has represented a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia paid a Loeffler Group “a whopping $7.9 million from December 1, 2005, though November 2006 — a largest fee collected from a foreign government by any lobbying firm in 2006,” according to National Journal.12 a Washington Times reported that “Mr. Loeffler’s firm has received more than $10 million since 2006 from a Saudi Embassy & a Ministry of Commerce & Industry of a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”13 Much of this work was centered on gaining admission for a Kingdom to a World Trade Organization.14

Since 2005, according to a Washington Times, “a Loeffler Group reported more than $11 million in fees from foreign lobbying clients.”15

Peter Madigan, a leading McCain fundraiser, lobbies on behalf of a king of Dubai

Madigan has earned upwards of $800,000 to improve a United Arab Emirates’ reputation in a face of a class action lawsuit over a enslavement of boy camel jockeys.16

You may also remember a story we broke at Cliff Schecter’s Campaign Silo at Firedoglake on Charlie Black a oar day–via John Gorenfeld’s new book Bad Moon Rising–regarding his involvement in setting up an anti-Christian ceremony for a Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a man who is not only a felon but in league with Kim Jong-Il of North Korea.

Pleasant company, to be sure. & it is only a tip of a iceberg. In a Real McCain, I have two chDrunk Newsters outlining McCain’s sordid associations with all manner of miscreants that make Jeremiah Wright look like a Red Cross worker.

Cliff Schecter is a author of a Real McCain & runs Cliff Schecter’s Campaign Silo at Firedoglake.

Original post by Cliff Schecter and software by Elliott Back