Myanmar is “a very bad government” Senator John McCain told Katie Couric of CBS on May 8. The United States should ask China and other neighbors of Myanmar to “really put some pressure” on the junta to accept humanitarian aid.
However, two days later on May 10 at noon, Michael Isikoff of Newsweek broke the story about the connections to this government by the man managing the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. - Doug Goodyear, CEO of DCI Group, which earned $3 million in 2007 lobbying for some of the world’s largest companies. The firm’s only foreign client was Myanmar, which paid $348,000 in 2002 to get the United States to "begin a dialogue of political reconciliation" with the regime.
DCI led a PR campaign for the junta, praising the country’s attempts to rein in the drug trade and attacking Bush administration "falsehoods" about rape and other abuses.
Goodyear told Newsweek that the junta's recent refusal to accept aid is "reprehensible." By 6 pm Saturday Goodyear had resigned - see YouTube post on the news.
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