McCain's Campaign Manager Comes with a Checkered Past

Matt Stoller at MyDD has some information on Terry Nelson, who was recently hired to be John McCain's Campaign Manager. Nelson has an interesting background of scandals. And I thought McCain was behind campaign reform and government integrity.

John McCain just hired the worst man in the world to run his campaign, Terry Nelson. Nelson was an unindicted co-conspirator in the TRMPAC scandal as a key point of contact between Tom Delay and the RNC. He was James Tobin's boss during the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal, for which Tobin was convicted. He also worked at the head of opposition research for the NRCC this cycle, where robocalls from Republicans pretending to be Democrats were the norm all over the country. Nelson also produced the racist bimbo ad against Harold Ford.

Also, Nelson was fired from his consultant job with Wal Mart. Nelson was hired to help the company combat the Wake Up Wal Mart campaign over summer.

Chris Cillizza has some more information on the hire.

Nelson is from Marshalltown and gives McCain an Iowa connection, as well as a bag full of dirty tricks.