USA Today, March 24, 2008

People who work, advise or raise campaign money for Republican presidential candidate John McCain who have lobbied for telecommunications companies since 1999:

•Rick Davis, McCain's presidential campaign manager. As a lobbyist at his former firm, Davis Manafort, Davis represented BellSouth (2001-02), SBC Communications (2001-05) and Verizon Corporate Services (2001-05). Davis and other Davis Manafort employees and their spouses gave $36,150 to McCain's campaigns in the past 10 years. BellSouth political action committees, employees and their spouses gave $78,050. SBC political action committees, employees and spouses gave $41,300. Verizon political action committees, employees and spouses gave $59,650.

•Christian Ferry, McCain's deputy campaign manager. Ferry partnered with Davis in representing SBC and Verizon from 2003 to 2005.

•Charlie Black, an unpaid chief adviser to McCain. Black, chairman of lobbying firm BKSH & Associates, has represented AT&T for the past decade. Black and other BKSH employees gave $9,600 to McCain's campaigns over the past decade. Employees, spouses and political action committees of AT&T and its subsidiaries and merger partners gave $251,850.

•Mark Buse, McCain's Senate chief of staff. Buse became a lobbyist for ML Strategies in 2002 after working for McCain on the Senate Commerce Committee staff. Buse represented AT&T Wireless from 2002 to 2005. Buse and his co-workers at ML Strategies gave $3,750 to McCain during the past decade. Employees, spouses and political action committees of AT&T Wireless gave $24,500.

•Former congressman Tom Loeffler of Texas, a co-chairman of McCain's campaign. Loeffler, now a senior partner of the Loeffler Group, has represented AT&T since 2001 and Qualcomm since 1999. Loeffler, his co-workers and their spouses gave McCain's campaigns $64,908 in the past decade. Qualcomm employees, spouses and political action committees gave $55,600.

•Susan Nelson, the finance director of McCain's campaign. Before joining the campaign last year, Nelson represented AT&T and Qualcomm for the Loeffler Group in 2006 and 2007. She also represented Verizon in 2004 while working at Ogilvy Government Relations.

•Wayne Berman, a national finance co-chairman of McCain's campaign. Berman, the managing director of Ogilvy Government Relations, has represented AT&T since last year, and Verizon and Verizon Wireless since 2004. Co-workers and their spouses at Ogilvy, formerly known as the Federalist Group, gave McCain's campaigns $38,550 in the past decade.

•John Green, who plans to take a leave of absence next month from his job at Ogilvy to work for McCain's campaign coordinating efforts with Republicans in Congress. Green has represented AT&T since last year and Verizon since 2004 and represented the United States Telecom Association (1999-2002), the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (2001) and BellSouth (1999-2006).

•Tim McKone, a fundraiser for McCain's campaign. McKone, a former lobbying partner with Davis, joined SBC Communications as a lobbyist in 1999 and became a vice president of AT&T after it merged with SBC in 2005. McKone was last listed as an AT&T lobbyist in 2006.

•David Crane, a fundraiser and former aide to McCain at the Senate Commerce Committee. Crane's clients at the Washington Group included BellSouth (2003-05). Crane left the Washington Group to form his own lobbying firm, Quadripoint Strategies, in 2007. Crane and his co-workers and their spouses at the Washington Group and Quadripoint gave McCain's campaigns $9,350 in the past decade.

•Carlos Bonilla, an economic adviser to McCain's campaign. Bonilla is a lobbyist with the Washington Group, which represented BellSouth 2003-05. The Washington Group's employees and their spouses gave $7,050 to McCain's campaigns in the past decade.

•John Timmons, a fundraiser for McCain and former aide in his Senate office. Timmons, a lobbyist at Cormac Group, represented AT&T (1999-2005) and Allegiance Telecom (2002-04). Cormac Group employees and their spouses have given $13,600 to McCain's campaigns in the past decade.

•Judy Black, a McCain fundraiser. Black is a lobbyist at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which has represented Global Crossing Ltd. since 2004 and represented AT&T from 2003 to 2005 and again in 2007. Employees and their spouses have given $17,950 to McCain's campaigns in the past decade.

•Bryan Cunningham, a McCain fundraiser. Cunningham, a lobbyist at Barbour Griffith & Rogers, has represented AT&T since 2007, Qwest Communications since 2006 and Verizon since 2006. Barbour Griffith employees and their spouses gave $24,700 to McCain's campaigns since 1998. Quest employees, spouses and political action committees gave $53,350.

•Juleanna Glover Weiss, a McCain fundraiser and former spokeswoman for Vice President Cheney. Glover Weiss is a lobbyist at the Ashcroft Group, where she registered to lobby for AT&T in 2006. Glover Weiss also represented AT&T from 2004 to 2005 while working at another lobbying firm, Clark & Weinstock. The Ashcroft Group's employees and their spouses gave McCain's 2008 campaign $4,600.

•Peter Madigan, a McCain fundraiser. Madigan, a lobbyist at Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart, represented BellSouth (2003-06), SBC Communications (2003 and 2004), the United States Telecom Association (2001 and 2002) and Verizon (2001-06). JMP employees and their spouses gave McCain's campaigns $43,200 in the past decade.

•James Pitts, a McCain fundraiser. Pitts, a lobbyist at DC Navigators, has represented Qualcomm since 2006 and AT&T since last year and represented BellSouth (2004-06). DC Navigators employees and their spouses gave McCain's campaigns $12,100 in the past decade.

•Kirk Blalock , a McCain fundraiser. Blalock, a lobbyist at Fierce Isakowitz & Blalock, has represented Sprint Nextel since 2003 and represented the former MCI from 2002 to 2005. Fierce Isakowitz employees and their spouses have given $14,800 to McCain's campaigns in the past decade. Sprint employees, spouses and political action committees gave $11,750.

•Kirsten Chadwick, a McCain fundraiser. Chadwick, a lobbyist at Fierce Isakowitz, represented MCI in 2004 and 2005 and has represented Sprint Nextel since 2004.

•Aleix Jarvis, a McCain fundraiser. Jarvis, a lobbyist at Fierce Isakowitz, represented MCI in 2005 and has represented Sprint Nextel since 2005.

•Alison McSlarrow, a McCain fundraiser. McSlarrow, who has her own lobbying firm, McSlarrow Consulting, represented Nextel Communications in 2003 and 2004 and Qwest in 1999 and 2000. McSlarrow and her husband gave $8,000 to McCain's campaigns in the past decade.

•Michael Meece of the Meece Group, a McCain fundraiser. Meece has represented Qualcomm since 2006. Meece gave $2,300 to McCain's 2008 campaign.

•Eric Burgeson, a McCain fundraiser. Now a lobbyist with Barbour Griffith, Burgeson registered to lobby for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 2001 with Orion Strategies.

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