McCain convention chief quits after past ties to Burma revealed

[babylonsister]

McCain convention chief quits after past ties to Burma revealed


The PR executive John McCain just tapped to help run the GOP convention quit today after a report that his firm once represented the Burmese junta that is now doing little to relieve its people from the devastation incurred by this week’s cyclone.

Doug Goodyear, CEO of the DCI Group, said in a statement issued by the convention committee that he was resigning “so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.”

Asked whether he made the decision to quit or was asked by the campaign, Goodyear said: "My decision."

"{It was} unambiguously the right thing to do," he said in an email to Politico.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/McCain_convention_chief_quits_after_past_ties_to_Burma_revealed.html

[speedoo]

1. Oy. Tough week for the rethugs.

Vito Fossella.

Doug Goodyear.

They're falling like flies!

[BlueManDude]

2. GOP convention panning? Easy. Kegs of Kool-Aid and Ted Nugent. Voila.