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According to WaPo "Maverick" McCain is little more than a front for K street.

But when McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out his presidential campaign, virtually every one was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, co-founded a lobbying firm whose clients have included Verizon and SBC Telecommunications. His chief political adviser, Charles R. Black Jr., is chairman of one of Washington's lobbying powerhouses, BKSH and Associates, which has represented AT&T, Alcoa, JPMorgan and U.S. Airways.

Senior advisers Steve Schmidt and Mark McKinnon work for firms that have lobbied for Land O' Lakes, UST Public Affairs, Dell and Fannie Mae.

Kirwood is a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. MSNBC was reporting that seven people were shot and five are dead, two of them police officers. The latest St. Louis Post-Dispatch story is reporting six dead and that a newspaper reporter was among the injured and the gunman among the dead.