Did you notice that a key criticism that Senator John McCain has been throwing out has dried up? No longer do you hear of the Senator from Arizona claiming that Senator Obama doesn’t have experience in foreign relations.

Wonder why?

It’s Sarah Palin.

Palin may be the Governor of Alaska but she has zero foreign relations experience. In fact, she first got her passport this year. It would be awfully hypocritical of McCain to condemn Obama’s record when the 72 year old McCain has chosen a running mate who has never ventured outside of our country’s borders.

The question has to be asked — what is McCain thinking? He’s 72. It wasn’t long ago that the average caucasian male lived to be 72. Now he wants to put someone who hasn’t even stepped outside of our borders as the next in line for the Presidency? You’ve got to be kidding. If McCain was concerned at Obama, who by the way has gone on international fact finding tours, how can he not be horrified by the possibility that his own running mate has never even found a need or desire to get a passport until this year?

McCain brags about being computer illiterate. It is obvious that he doesn’t recognize that people have the ability to “Google” and check the facts for themselves these days, and can find McCain’s previous public positions on issues that he has reversed himself on today.

For almost all of the major issues that he created his “Maverick” image from, he’s reversed himself on his previous positions today.

He was against the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy before he was for them.

He was against torture before he was for it (in order to get Gov. Mitt Romney’s endorsement.)

He was against extremist preachers who preached hate, until he sought their endorsements for their followers’ votes.

He was against offshore oil drilling until he got a $2 million donation from the oil companies.

He was against lobbyists until he needed them to run his campaign. http://www.campaignmoney.org/node/258444/print

Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, announced today the result of a new analysis of the fees Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) lobbyist bundlers, advisors and staff members have collected from domestic clients over the past decade.

The total? A staggering $930,949,819.

“The McCain campaign relies on big money lobbyists, and they’ll rely on him,” said David Donnelly, director of Campaign Money Watch. “In the ‘you-scratch-my-back, I’ll-scratch-yours’ world of Washington, $931 million gets the special interests the best government money can buy. But just think of the payday these lobbyists might expect in a McCain Administration.”

Campaign Money Watch’s analysis of data provided by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (http://www.opensecrets.org [1]) also found that employees and Political Action Committees of these lobbyists’ clients have donated $11,750,051 to McCain’s campaigns, a fact that raises its own set of problems, Donnelly said.

For more information on the lobbyists that McCain has on his campaign staff click here: http://www.mccainslobbyists.com/

Here’s a Washington Post story on some of his top lobbyist advisors: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101131_pf.html

FOX News attempted to whitewash McCain’s connections to lobbyists with tainted reputations claiming that the McCain campaign was issuing a new conflict of interest policy after McCain’s campaign was embarrassed by lobbyist staffers were connected with lobbying work that McCain has previously spoken out against http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/16/mccain-reevaluates-campaign-staff-hunts-for-ties-to-lobbyists/

“McCain adviser Craig Shirley was asked to leave the campaign following inquiries about his work with a “527″ group that sharply criticized the Democratic presidential candidates.

The 527s, named for the part of the tax code that regulates them, are independent special interest groups formed mainly to influence elections.

Shirley was advising McCain while his firm also was doing public relations work for the group Stop Her Now, according to the article. The Stop Her Now group initially targeted Hillary Clinton — in part through cartoons and animated features on its Web site — but has changed its message to “Stop Him Now,” going after Barack Obama as he’s taken the lead in the Democratic contest.

Shirley was ousted after two other high-profile McCain aides resigned their positions following reports that they were working for a firm that lobbied for the Burmese military junta in 2002.

One of the two was Doug Goodyear, the man picked by McCain’s campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention. A Newsweek story scrutinizing Goodyear and his firm DCI Group’s $348,000 contract with the junta also drew attention to DCI’s work with 527 groups. Goodyear then stepped down from his convention role “so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.”

Personally, I think that the reason that FOX News made such a big deal out of this story was to make it appear as if McCain was willing to cut strings with Craig Shirley, who had attacked Senator Hillary Clinton, in order to court the people who voted for her. If McCain gets elected, I suspect that he will hire Craig Shirley back in some capacity.

McCain has at least 115 lobbyists on his campaign staff, including ten who represent brutal dictators, human rights abusers and other unsavory foreign interests. Sign a petition here to tell him to fire his lobbyists NOW. http://firethelobbyists.com/

Here are more links for information on more of McCain’s lobbyists and the money men behind him:

http://blog.mccainslobbyists.com/?p=64
http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccaintech

McCain’s national finance co-chair, former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, one of McCain’s key fundraisers, resigned when it became public that Loeffler’s lobbying shop “The Loeffler Group” represented European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., the parent company of plane manufacturer Airbus. EADS won a lucrative contract to provide air refueling tankers for the Air Force after McCain helped scuttle an earlier contract in 2004 that would have gone to a competitor, Boeing.Co.

More here: http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTA1MTk5NQ

Public Campaign Action Fund investigated and reported on a deal between German owned shipping company DHL and UPS that will transfer jobs 8,000 jobs from Ohio to Kentucky. Even though McCain has expressed concerns about anti-trust issues, McCain played an important role in allowing a foreign owned company to own DHL in the first place. But McCain wouldn’t join the Ohio delegation in investigating a possible anti-trust violation. Why would he? His top advisors recently earned more than $1 million from the companies involved to help make the deal that is under scrutiny today.

Three McCain staffers have lobbied on behalf of the companies involved, and one of them, John Green, has lobbied for both of the companies involved in the anti-trust issue.
• Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, and Christian Ferry, McCain’s e-campaign director, both lobbied for Deutsche Post, the company that bought DHL and Airborne in 2002 and 2003, between October 2003 and December 2005. During this time their firm, Davis-Manafort, billed $465,000 in fees.
• Davis and Ferry both also lobbied on behalf of Airborne in 2003, earning an additional $125,000 in fees. Their work involved lobbying the Senate to approve the DHL-Airborne merger, which it did. (5)
• John Green, McCain’s liaison to Congress, lobbied for Deutsche Post from June 2003 to April 2006, earning $600,000 in fees.
• Then, Green recently lobbied on behalf of UPS, earning $40,000 for lobbying work between August 2007 and March 2008.

More here: http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccaindhl

Do working-class Americans really believe that McCain is going to improve their futures with these types of policies?

Didn’t McCain say he is going to clean up Washington? Aren’t these lobbyists on his staff, the guys he claims he is going to protect us from?

So if you like a candidate who works to allow foreign owned companies to acquire U.S. companies, and lose American jobs, while failing to investigate anti-trust violations; who works to give foreign companies contracts with the U.S. government while preventing U.S. companies from getting those contracts, then John McCain is your man.

McCain was against the GI Bill before he took credit for its passage (even though he didn’t bother to show up to vote for it). And he was a straight talker (or claimed to be), before he turned to sleaze and lies.

Even Karl Rove is saying that McCain’s commercials are lies – “McCain went too far”…“attributing things to Obama that are beyond the truth test”. He must have “jumped the shark” in order to get a comment like that from Rove.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/14/campaign.wrap/index.html
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/09/14/karl-rove-says-mccain-went-too-far/

McCain is proving that he would rather lose his integrity than lose an election - at the expense of his country.

More on McCain:

The Real McCain 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

Less Jobs More Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh-T2iGkLJY

John McCain debates John McCain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

McCain’s Spiritual Guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg

Why Won’t McCain Sign the GI Bill? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_9sI7hzAc

McCain – running the sleaziest ads ever…selling out to the lobbyists…putting his ambition ahead of his country.

McCain fails to realize that it has been old Republican ideas from President Herbert Hoover (you remember, the guy that couldn’t do anything to get us out of the Great Depression), that have created this economic crisis - the one that McCain characterized as “the fundaments are strong” Monday morning, until the Dow dropped 504.4 points, losing $700 Billion in value, (the worst drop since September 11, 2001), when McCain suddenly switched his take later that afternoon and called it an “economic crisis.” Wow, he finally figured it out? How many years did it take him?

Allen Greenspan stated that this is the worst economic climate he’s seen.

I guess reality suddenly slapped McCain upside the head and he realized that he couldn’t continue to lie to the public. When everyone else can see that even Wall Street is tanking, and the rich are starting to lose their shirts, then and only then, does McCain admit that the economy ISN’T “fundamentally strong”. Heck, even Bush got called out for calling our economy “fundamentally strong”, quite some time ago. Why is it that the media has been letting McCain get away with this lie for so long?

It was financial deregulation and banks investing in bad mortgages that Bush had pushed for in his “ownership society” idea, which caused people to buy property with no money down and shaky employment. It was Allen Greenspan who cut interest rates to allow people to get loans that they weren’t qualified to get. And it is John McCain, who calls himself “the biggest free marketer out there”, and claims that he is “fundamentally a deregulator”, who has continually worked to eliminate any regulations which could have prevented the current crisis from occurring in the first place. It was John McCain’s top economic advisor, Senator Phil Graham, who in 1999 got rid of the Great Depression era regulations that allowed this crisis to occur.

Now with unemployment rising, and a million homes being foreclosed this year, (with a million more projected to be foreclosed on next year), banks have to be bailed out by the government – by YOU the taxpayers – just like what happened during the previous Bush Administration, when all of the Savings and Loans went under at an initial cost of over $600 Billion to the taxpayers, which later ballooned to over $1.4 TRILLION. That was one quarter of the country’s deficit at the time. We are still paying for that debacle.

(Two of President George H.W. Bush’s sons, Jeb and Neil, were officers in Savings and Loans that went under due to their mismanagement, and failed to repay millions of dollars in loans that they took, abusing their positions in the process, and relied on the U.S. Government, i.e. TAXPAYERS, to pay investors for their losses at pennies on the dollar, in a bailout signed by – dear old dad. (Jeb defaulted on a $4.56 Million from the Broward Savings and Loan which he was an officer of. Neil became a Director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30, and the S&L went belly up three years later at a cost to taxpayers of $1.6 Billion.) http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htm

The Savings and Loans went under because of new financial deregulations that went into place under the Reagan Administration in the early 1980’s that were supposed to increase their profitability while promoting home ownership. Sound familiar?)

More on the Bush S&L Debacle here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3330.htm
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/savings_and_loan_associations/index.html?query=BUSH,%20GEORGE&field=per&match=exact

Not only do you have to bail out the banks for their mismanagement, but your own property values are dropping because of the excessive number of homes on the market.

But it wasn’t only the Bushs that were involved in the S&L Debacle. John McCain had his own connections with the Keating Five. Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan failed at an eventual cost to taxpayers of $3.4 Billion, because of bad real estate deals, some of which John McCain’s wife and father-in-law were involved with. McCain and four other Senators pressured regulators to back off on their investigation of Lincoln Savings and Loan and its impending crash. McCain backed away from supporting Keating when it became public that criminal action was going to be taken against his friend, but even today the ties are there. Keating’s legal firm was the sixth largest bundler for McCain up until recently, for his current campaign. (Reported by OpenSecrets.org) http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/the-keating-50000.html

More on the Keating Five Scandal: http://www.michiganmessenger.com/3998/remember-the-keating-5-john-mccain-does

Kenneth Lewis, CEO and President of Bank of America said that the reason behind today’s financial crisis was “excessive leverage and greed”.

Perhaps the failure of Silver State Bank in Nevada was caused by that as well.

“It was the 11th failure this year of a federally insured bank.

Nevada regulators closed Silver State and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver of the bank, based in Henderson, Nev. It had $2 billion in assets and $1.7 billion in deposits as of June 30.

Andrew K. McCain, a son of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, sat on the boards of Silver State Bank and of its parent, Silver State Bancorp, since February but resigned in July after five months citing “personal reasons,” corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show. Andrew McCain also was a member of the bank’s audit committee, responsible for oversight of the company’s accounting.

The younger McCain, who is the chief financial officer of Hensley & Co., the beer distributorship of which Cindy McCain is chairwoman, is the Arizona senator’s adopted son from his first marriage.

Andrew McCain’s position on the Silver State board and departure were first reported Friday (September 5), by The Wall Street Journal online.

Silver State Bank ran into difficulty because of a substantial amount of “poor-quality loans primarily related to real estate development” in southern Nevada and other distressed markets, FDIC spokesman David Barr said.”

Click here for the whole story: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/silver-state-bank-in-nevada-is-shut/n20080905235709990024
Sound familiar?

Now that Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch have tanked (with AIG close behind) the insurers have to bail them out.

Henry Paulsen, Bush’s Treasury Secretary, claims that he won’t bail out Lehman Brothers, but he doesn’t rule out using taxpayer money to bail out these mismanaged financial institutions which have been raking in huge record compensation for their top executives even while these companies have been failing. (September 16, the U.S. Government is looking at bailing out AIG with $85-$90 Billion.)

Where was Bush when he could have stepped in as the mortgage crisis started? The Democrats have repeatedly attempted to put safeguards in place to avoid this type of financial crises, but the Republicans didn’t want regulations and repeatedly blocked them.

Where was Bush when he could have stepped in to put together a real energy plan to reduce the impact of energy prices on businesses and consumers?

Where was Bush when he could have stepped in to stop the speculation that drove oil prices up to $147 a barrel and more than $4.00 a gallon gas?

Where was Bush when he could have stopped the oil companies from exporting Alaskan oil to Asia, and kept it here at home to keep our gas prices low? (Instead of telling us that we had to drill for new oil that we haven’t found yet.)

And why is it that with oil prices down to $95 a barrel yesterday (September 15), we are still looking at $4.25 a gallon gas, and illegal price gouging in Florida and Texas at $5.50 a gallon when people were evacuating ahead of Hurricane Ike? (Oil prices dropped to below $92 a barrel on September 16). Wasn’t dropping the price of oil supposed to drop the price of gasoline?

Where was Bush when he could have stepped in to stop the financial institutions excessive leverage and greed? Where were our government regulators, and why didn’t they stop this before it became a crisis? (Maybe they had to recognize that it was a problem before they could take action? You can’t prevent a crisis, if you can’t see it coming.)

And where was Senator McCain as all these problems were building, with his 26 years of “experience”? McCain brags that he supported Bush 90% of the time. And until yesterday, he has repeatedly claimed that our economy was “fundamentally strong.”

McCain also bragged that he doesn’t know much about the economy. (His brother says that the men in his family never even had to deal with their own family finances – they always had their wives handle that. Is that why he picked a female running mate?)

So, Senator McCain, are we still in a “mental recession”?

And let’s look at the real record of taxes and the proposals of McCain versus Obama.

Even as McCain’s commercials fraudulently claim that Obama would raise taxes on the middle class, an independent analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center proves that Senator Obama would give substantially higher tax CUTS to the middle class, while McCain would give substantially higher tax cuts to the people making $250,000 or more, with much lower tax cuts for the less well off. 25% of McCain’s tax cuts go to the top one-tenth of 1% of the income earners.

Under McCain’s plan, if you earn between $38,000-$66,000, you would only get an average of $319 in tax breaks. Under Obama’s plan, you would get an average of $1,042.

Under McCain’s plan, if you earn between $19,000-$38,000, you would only get an average of $113 in tax breaks. Under Obama’s plan, you would get an average of $892.

Under McCain’s plan, if you earn under $19,000, you would only get an average of $19 in tax breaks. Under Obama’s plan you would get an average of $567 in tax breaks.

But under McCain’s plan, those earning between $227,000-$603,000, would get an average tax break of $7,871. Under Obama’s plan they would have an average increase of $12. Yes, that’s right, only $12.

And for those earning over $2.9 MILLION, McCain plan gives them an average tax break of $269,364, while Obama would raise their taxes by $701,885, (reversing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy).

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/index.htm?cnn=yes
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/411750_updated_candidates_summary.pdf

Didn’t McCain say that he was cutting taxes for the “middle class”? What is his definition of the “middle class”, and why won’t he tell us?

Remember, McCain says that the cut-off dividing the middle class from the rich is a $5 million a year income. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/17/mccain-defines-rich/

During the Saddleback Presidential Forum Pastor Rick Warren had asked both candidates what their definition of middle class was.

Senator Obama answered, “if you are making $150,000 or less, as a family, then you are middle class.”

McCain, however, dismissed Warren’s question, asking in jest, “How about $5 million?”

WARREN: Everybody talks about, you know, taxing the rich, but not the poor, the middle class. At what point, give me a number, give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich? […]

MCCAIN: How about $5 million? No, but seriously, I don’t think you can, I don’t think seriously that the point is I’m trying to make, seriously, and I’m sure that comment will be distorted but the point is…that we want to keep people’s taxes low, and increase revenues. … So, it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes. I really don’t.

In other words, McCain WON’T ANSWER THE QUESTION. Note that McCain’s stance on tax cuts for the wealthy now, are in opposition to what his stance was when he was campaigning against then Governor Bush in 2000.

So, according to a glib McCain, if you earn under $5 million a year, you are middle class. That, by the way, is the only way he can say that the majority of his tax cuts go to the “middle class”. Note also that Candy Crowley characterized his comment during Anderson Cooper 360 on September 15, 2008, claiming that McCain went on to clarify that the middle class was “this or that”. In fact, contrary to her characterization, McCain wouldn’t give any specific figure.

This is the same situation that we ran into when McCain was asked how long he would stay in Iraq, when he said that staying in Iraq for 100 years would “be fine with me.”

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk
See McCain defend his statements: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Then watch McCain flip flop again: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/04/mccain-100-years/

Asked about the remark later by Mother Jones’ David Corn, McCain reaffirmed it, “excitedly declaring that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for ‘a thousand years’ or ‘a million years,’ as far as he was concerned.”

McCain’s latest comments complete a full flip-flop-flip. He previously said that the Korea model was “exactly” the right idea for Iraq. But in late November, he abandoned it on PBS’ Charlie Rose Show:

ROSE: Do you think that this — Korea, South Korea is an analogy of where Iraq might be, not in terms of their economic success but in terms of an American presence over the next, say, 20, 25 years, that we will have a significant amount of troops there?

MCCAIN: I don’t think so.

ROSE: Even if there are no casualties?

MCCAIN: No. But I can see an American presence for a while. But eventually I think because of the nature of the society in Iraq and the religious aspects of it that America eventually withdraws.

Whatever happened to staying there until the job is done, until the war is won – even though General Petraeus doesn’t believe that we can “win” this war?

Whenever McCain can’t answer a question with a well thought out policy position, he makes a joke out of it. When caught in a lie, he repeatedly changes his position regardless of what his previous publicly stated position has been. Is that what we want from a President of the United States?

Isn’t that what we’ve had for the last eight years?

Despite the facts John McCain is doggedly determined to continue the economic policies that have led to the current economic crisis.  Today the republican candidate parroted Mr Bush by saying that the fundamentals of the economy are still going strong.  What country is this guy talking about?  I was waiting for him to add with a snicker, “Just kidding.”  But it never followed.  After the events of the last 24 hours?  Talk about out of touch.  Economically McCain is nothing different than Bush.  The FACTS are that the unemployment rate when the republicans took office was 4.2% and now it’s 6.1%.  There was a $281 Billion annual budget surplus then and republicans have turned it into a $357 billion annual deficit.  The national debt was $5.7 trillion and under  republican control it has increased to $9.7 trillion.  Gasoline was $1.49 a gallon then and now it’s $4.09.  FACTS!  All McCain can offer is to make permanent the mistakes of his republican predecessor.  I would like to see McCain explain how his economic policy would differ from the policy that brought on the current financial crisis.  Specifically. 

As far as his noble character goes…  Today Republican Strategist, Karl Rove said that McCain has, “Gone too far.”  in reference to the lies his campaign has been repeating.  This coming from the man touted as “The Architect” by Bush himself.  McCain has become exactly what he used to claim to despise. 

This Palin person is a lunatic! She’s a (expletive deleted) like none other. Would I say that if she was a man? No. I’d call him an (expletive deleted). If she’d rather I call her an I’m cool with that too. But honestly shrill is more fitting.

She lies. She refuses to back down from her claim that she had anything to do with stopping the infamous, “bridge to nowhere.” In truth she supported it completely until it wasn’t politically correct to. It wasn’t until congress already pulled the project that she decided she was against it. But as Governor of Alaska she still graciously accepted the same federal money and used it for other projects. She claims that she told congress, “No thanks. If we want that bridge we’ll build it ourselves.” But still accepted the money? That’s not change anyone can believe in. It’s putting lipstick on a pig.

She makes poor decisions with negative results. She insists that the only thing children should learn about preventing pregnancy and disease is abstinence. Her 17 year old daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Has Palin changed her mind on abstinence only education? No. I’m not picking on her 17 year old daughter. I understand that things like this happen. I’m picking on Palin herself for her position on sex education and as a mother for her NEGLECT and IRRESPONSIBILITY in not teaching her daughter how to protect herself. Perhaps if she had taught her daughter about birth control or disease prevention like a responsible parent her daughter wouldn’t have gotten pregnant.

As I type I’m hearing the latest news story on the campaign. Apparently Obama was giving a speech and said that McCain’s ideas for something amounted to nothing more than a cosmetic change and wouldn’t change anything at all. Obama said that it was like, “putting lipstick on a pig.” Derived from the saying, “If you put lipstick on a pig it’s still a pig.” McCain decided against defending his position on policy and said that Obama should apologize to Palin for the, “Lipstick on a pig” comment. What kind of crap is that? It’s an insult to the American people for McCain to assume they are dumb enough to buy that crap. So far the only people that I’ve noticed buy into it are the people who only vote for hard core right wingers anyway.

So far I’ve seen no evidence what-so-ever that any new people are turning to the republican candidate because of the new bitch on the ticket. I have however noticed that the hard core right wing of the republican party is beginning to come back out. They weren’t very happy with McCain so now they feel he’s made up for it by picking someone who shares their own beliefs. Fundamentalist Christians love to hate Liberals. The cheerleaders just came onto the field after the game began is all.

I believe that the decision to nominate Palin as his vice presidential running mate alone is proof that McCain is incapable of making decisions in a responsible manner. Selecting a hard core right wing nutjob isn’t the act of a maverick. It is the act of a formerly noble servant of his country in a desperate attempt at winning a campaign. The only change McCain represents is his own shift from putting his country first to putting his campaign first.

Editors Note: We apologize for the use of an expletive in the original post. Points can be made without resorting to profanity. This one slipped through temporarily.

Many of us were disappointed that a Democrat did not stand up to run against F. Jim Sensenbrenner this fall.

Doug Cvetkovich was too.

Well, it’s not too late, but we need your help this Tuesday!

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Doug is an exciting progressive candidate to take on the big money establishment. He is pro-choice, for universal healthcare, supports the Veteran for Peace and is against the Iraq War, passionate about racial justice, pro-LGBT rights, an environmentalist, eager to correct the erosion of our civil liberties and civil rights, pro-union, and he supports the Barack Obama campaign.

We can’t change Washington if we don’t change the players!

About Doug Cvetkovich:

Doug was born and raised in Milwaukee WI. His mother was a school teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools, and a member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council. His father was a factory worker, and a member of the United Auto Workers Union.

After his parents passed away when he was a teenager, Doug enlisted in the US Army from 1989 to 1992 as a Signals Intelligence Analyst, and received two Army Achievement Medals during his years of service. During that time, he volunteered at Camp Humphreys, Korea with the community center on post, and also volunteered as a soccer coach while stationed at Ft Stewart in Hinesville, Georgia. He fought for the rights of his fellow soldiers, by trying to get approval for on going training for the soldiers in his unit. He still views his time serving in the Army and the volunteering that he did, as some of the most fulfilling events of his life.

Since 1992, he has worked in the retail sector, volunteered for the John Kerry campaign by registering voters in King County, Washington, was a volunteer little league coach in Federal Way, Washington, and is currently employed as a District Manager for a retail service company.

After returning to Wisconsin to raise his family, Doug wasted no time getting involved in the Democratic Party in Wisconsin. He volunteers for several campaigns, and he currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Fifth Congressional District for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

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