The ExxonMobil PAC has given Turner $12,000 over the years
(see: http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00373001/ ). ExxonMobil made $11.7 billion in their last quarter.
* On a blog entry written by a Steve Stivers volunteer, the blogger says that he had a discussion with Stivers and they talked about "...personal liberty...." Stivers, a corporate bank lobbyist and fan of big business, is the Republican candidate running against Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy. I find it amazing that Stivers says he supports personal liberty, yet he is against a woman's reproductive freedom. Perhaps Stivers only supports personal liberty for men.
* Raw Story has the debunking of the latest McCain ad. (LINK)
* When will John McCain tell the truth that he and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, have something to do with the possibility of Wilmington, Ohio losing 6,000 to 10,000 jobs? Is this how McCain does his stuff?
See: First Read.
Here is an interesting piece from The Plain Dealer at Cleveland.com:
When Republican presidential candidate John McCain meets Thursday with citizens and officials in Wilmington, Ohio, he won't need a playbook to understand why they're worried about deep job losses at the local freight airport.
Little known to those citizens, McCain and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, played roles in the fate of DHL Express and its Ohio air park as far back as 2003. Back then, however, their actions that helped DHL and its German owner, Deutsche Post World Net, acquire the Wilmington operations resulted in expansion, not retraction.....
"Those jobs are on the chopping block because Sen. McCain and his campaign were involved in a deal that resulted in control of those positions being shifted to a foreign corporation, and there's no getting around that," said Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO......
