Bud Paxson's connection to John McCain

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Bud Paxson's connection to John McCain

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Vicki Iseman is a name you might end up hearing more about soon regarding her past with Senator John McCain. The connection to radio/TV? She works as a lobbyist for Lowell "Bud" Paxson.

The story from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/po ... ref=slogin
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This sounds worse than Gary Hart's Monkey Business affair.
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Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf.

Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters in 1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson's quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.

Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, likely attended the meeting in McCain's office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. "Was Vicki there? Probably," Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post yesterday. "The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 34_pf.html
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