Hot Info: Mark Buse
His current Senate chief of staff, Mark Buse, went from directing McCain’s Commerce Committee staff to being a telecom lobbyist and then back to running McCain’s Senate office.
Had lunch with an old friend, Mark Buse, John McCain’s Chief of Staff in the Senate.
John McCain’s staff campaign and Senate is populated with lobbyists who have worked for many of the very companies for which McCain is charged with holding accountable.
As might be expected at the McCain nominating convention, Mark had to balance the bites of food in front of him, with calls from his boss.
President Bush’s administration has proposed a sweeping plan allowing the U.S. Treasury to buy up to $700 billion in illiquid assets in a bid to end the most serious financial market crisis since the Great Depression.
And the senior strategist Senator McCain recently brought on board – Steve Schmidt – is well-known as one of the most skilled and savvy campaign professionals in the country.
My conversation with Mark reminded me that John McCain has a knack for surrounding himself with competent and knowledgeable folks.
John McCain is proving to be no different from the swift-boating, vote-suppressing Republicans of years past.
Prior to his stint in the private sector, Mark was the staff director of the Senate Commerce Committee where he worked with the Senator to advance common sense economic policy that promoted competition and growth.
There has been a sporadic blip here and there, but very little pick-up of the finer details on a lot of this in terms of long-term lobbyist relationships with McCain — and the ins and outs of the revolving door to his staff.
Although he went into business for himself four years ago, the Senator called Mark back into public service earlier this year when he named him Chief.
For registered lobbyists, employment histories may be incomplete prior to 1998 because the Senate Office of Public Records does not make registrations and reports available electronically for those years.
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Most notable, in a town where long-term employment is often defined as anything exceeding 12 months, and relationships are too many times merely transactional, loyalty is a premium.
Elation in the financial markets over the $700 billion bank bailout plan evaporated Monday and was replaced by all-too-familiar anxiety, pummeling stocks and sending oil prices to their biggest one-day gain.
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In addition to Mark, Rick Davis – the manager of the presidential campaign – has been a long-time loyalist of McCain.
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I’m going to Digg reading all this.
In the legal business, we call this an appearance of impropriety.
