John McCain

McCain Hires Another Republican Liar

Posted by on January 8, 2007 at 03:06 PM

McCain has hired Trey Walker to manage his campaign in South Carolina. Walker, who admired the tactics used against McCain in 2000, telling a local South Carolina newspaper:

"I think we were surprised by just how negative they went," said Trey Walker, national field director for McCain. "They made a conscientious effort to demonize John McCain among conservatives and it worked. But you've got to give them credit. Their backs were against the wall. It was a life-or-death situation for them. The means justified the end."

Well it seems he learned from their example. He was subsequently investigated for election fraud himself in 2003.

Walker joins Terry Nelson, who Matt summed up perfectly:

Nelson was an unindicted co-conspirator in the TRMPAC scandal as a key point of contact between Tom Delay and the RNC. He was James Tobin's boss during the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal, for which Tobin was convicted. He also worked at the head of opposition research for the NRCC this cycle, where robocalls from Republicans pretending to be Democrats were the norm all over the country. Nelson also produced the racist bimbo ad against Harold Ford.

And Richard Quinn, a man who opposed creating MLK Day and supported David Duke, another member of Team McCain:

"What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke? What better way to tweak the nose of the establishment?"

Then there is Jill Hazelbaker - Walker's dirty tactics soul mate and McCain's New Hampshire spokesperson. Hazelbaker recently lied about pretending to be a Democratic activist in blog posts while working for GOP Senate candidate in New Jersey.

Walker committed a similar offense in 2002 when he sent thousands of activists an e-mail about his GOP opponent using the name of one of the opponent's own consultants. He later called it "a harmless practical joke."

Sounds like McCain has a team he can be proud of.

Update: Media Matters has more.

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