it just gets better : Paxson Contradicts McCain Campaign on Meetings

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Broadcaster Says He Met with Senator Several Weeks Before Letters to FCC Were Sent

Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson today 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 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, 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 today. "The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."

The recollection of the now-retired Paxson conflicted with the account provided by McCain about two letters at the center of a controversy about the senator's ties to Iseman, a partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde & Fay.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202634_pf.html

[GodlessBiker]

1. Hmmmmm. The plot thickens.

[DS1]

2. If that's all they've got on McCain, and the womanizing can't be proven

I'd say he's pretty damn clean relative to the lot of them.

[hyphenate]

3. I kinda like Paxson

His network, now called Ion but called Pax TV, was often quite original in its programming. I could never say that he used hammers over the head in promoting Xianity, but kept most light and leisurely. He is a fairly even handed guy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. He 'goin down.

Well, it's him or McCain. Actually, wouldn't it be both? Why wouldn't someone not get in trouble for attempting to bribe a public official?

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I can client remember meetings I had 1999

Wonder why Johnny can't. Either he's a liar or he's too old to President.

Which is, Johnnyboy?

[dkf]

6. oh oh. McCain in deep doo doo.

first one thread unravels...then everyone jumps into the pile looking for the next loose thread.