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McCain Advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer Falsely Calls Greg Craig a ''Paid Lobbyist...on the Roll'' of the Obama Campaign

MSNBC, 5/19/08
DAVID SHUSTER: Nancy, why is it that just in the last couple of days some of these lobbyists have been shown the door?

NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Well, you know, I think-It's fascinating to me-and I'm sorry not to answer you directly, David, I'll get to it- but it's fascinating to me that Senator Obama's getting away with this. He hasn't even released his list of advisers. It's a total double-standard. Even though he admits that he's got paid lobbyists, you know, on the rolls, if you will. And we know he's got some problems, because I can name at least one: Greg Craig, who's a partner at Williams & Connelly, who is a senior foreign policy adviser who has pledged to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for him at the same time that he's representing clients like the president of --

FACT: Greg Craig Has Never Been a Lobbyist. [Senate Office of Public Records]

FACT: Greg Craig Is Not On the Staff of the Obama Campaign [Federal Elections Commission]