Newsweek - Has The McCain Explained What The Freddie Mac Payments to Davis Were For? Bribes?

[Median Democrat]

I know the Rick Davis story was obscured by McCain's stunts last week, but it appears that basic questions remain unanswered. Specifically, if Davis was not lobbying for Freddie Mac, what was the purpose of the $15,000/month retainer? A payment for no legitimate purpose sounds like a bribe to me.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/161218

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In an e-mail to NEWSWEEK, a senior McCain official said that when the campaign began last year, it signed a contract with Davis Manafort "in which we purchased all of time, and he agreed not to work for any other clients." The official also said that though Davis was an "investor" in 3eDC, Davis has received no salary from it. As to why Davis permitted the Freddie Mac payments to continue, the official referred NEWSWEEK to Davis Manafort, which did not respond to repeated phone calls. One senior McCain adviser said the entire flap could have been avoided if the campaign had resisted attacking Barack Obama for his ties to two former Fannie Mae executives, which prompted the media to take a second look at Davis. "It was stupid," the adviser said. "A serious miscalculation and an amateurish move." Still, this adviser said, McCain's faith in his campaign manager remains unswerving.

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