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McEwen’s lobbying firm
BizzyBlog.com continues to turn up uncomfortable facts for McEwen to deal with. Today he investigates exactly who and what McEwen has been lobbying for in the last 12 years, as judged by his firm. After detailing his associates including communist Ron Dellums, he asks some questions:
So here are what I believe are legitimate questions Second District voters need answers to regarding Bob McEwen and AAI:
* Why is Bob McEwen still from all appearances an active member of “The Team” at AAI?
* Is McEwen still receiving paychecks or distributions from AAI?
* If elected, will Bob McEwen pay more attention to his AAI team members with their magical “access” than he will to “ordinary constituent” concerns?
* If elected, will Bob McEwen take advantage of his status, especially with his grandfathered seniority on The Rules Committee, to grant favors to his AAI team members and their clients? How will we ever know?
* Will McEwen refer business to AAI if elected, and if so, will he be compensated in any way for doing so?
* Do conservatives have reason to be concerned that he will carry into office AAI’s desire to “overcome the obstacles sometimes caused by partisan politics,” to the detriment of key conservative agenda items?
* Considering the presence of Mr. Dellums on The Team, and the biographies of certain AAI Associates, should we be concerned that AAI, as long as the money is right, is directly or indirectly assisting anti-American activities around the world in any way?
* Considering the presence of Ms. Guo and her Chinese communist connections, is AAI, again if the money is right, compromising the livelihoods of American workers by assisting in the expansion of trade with China?The fact is, though the questions are fair, we cannot possibly know the answers until Bob McEwen enters Congress. Because of McEwen’s probable presence on The Rules Committee and the unfortunate fact that provisions sometimes get inserted into legislation in the “dead of night,” we may never know.
At a minimum, voters should realize that McEwen’s years of experience with AAI make his selection to Congress a huge gamble, and that most, if not all, of his opponents, do not have his potential for insider-connections conflicts.
A gamble we don’t need to take, with the other good conservative candidates available.
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I was interviewed by the Dayton Daily News at the same time that Bob McEwen, Jeff Morgan and Jean Schmidt. We were all asked what we had been doing for a living. Mr. McEwen said he worked for AAI. He was asked what that was, he said it was a consulting firm. What type of consulting? Well you get the picture.
Eventually he uttered the word “lobbyist.” He was asked to name clients. He responded they were companies in need of assistance with government red tape. But who are they? Again you get the picture.
Eventually he named his clients all of whom were foreign governments and foreign companies doing business with the US. Remember he was a representative to the European Congress after leaving Congress.
I was a bit surprised by all this and even more surprised that no newspaper has ever reported that he makes his living representing foreigh interests.
The answers finally given by him to the questioning by the editor explain his attempts to avoid giving a staight answer. As a trial lawyer, I admired the interrogation very much.
Jeff Morgan gave his usual staright no non-sense answer that he is a part-time postal carrier. I answered that I had quite my job at ODJFS to run. Jean Schmidt said she was director of RTL and added upon further inquiry that it was a recently created position and non-paid. I thought that odd also. Is there a resume being built here? What were her duties? They did not ask. Oh. well.
Interesting.
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[...] This original source of this photo is unknown, so I can’t be sure whether or not this is a picture of Minamyer entering a conference room at the Dayton Daily News with you, Jean Schmidt, and Jeff Morgan for a candidate interview during last year’s primary. It was at that meeting where Minamyer observed in a comment posted at NixGuy that he left the meeeting “a bit surprised …… that no newspaper has ever reported that he (that means you, Bob) makes his living representing foreign interests.” Though he supports you now, he has never explained why your occupation, which bothered him then (see the link for more detail), doesn’t bother him now. [...]