![]() ![]() It was also despite Yanukovych's ouster by popular uprising in February 2014, and the warrant for his arrest for mass murder of protesters. ![]() One particularly revealing moment was when we learned Yanukovych was building himself a US$100 million mansion, while at the same time according to Devine, Ukrainians were struggling with "joblessness, hunger and the general despair." He saw directly what Yanukovych's rule meant for the average Ukrainian. This support for Yanukovych was in spite of seeing Yanukovych's strongly autocratic tendencies by 2012. Devine continued to work for Yanukovych and/or the Party of Regions through 2014. This was after Yanukovych's political opponent, Viktor Yushchenko, had been poisoned by dioxin under suspicious conditions in 2004. In 2006, Devine took a job with Paul Manafort to help Viktor Yanukovych run for president of Ukraine as the Party of Regions candidate, a strongly pro- Russian party. well, Gore lost, sort of).Īlthough Devine was undoubtedly well-paid working as a senior advisor for the Gore and Kerry presidential campaigns, Devine somehow felt the need to work overseas for an autocrat. Nor, apparently, does he have any success with his presidential candidates (Dukakis and Kerry lost to Republicans, Sanders didn't get the Democratic nomination, and Gore. You'll find quite clearly that Devine has no real convictions beyond whoever pays him the most. He has worked on the presidential campaigns of Michael Dukakis (1987-1988), Al Gore (2000), John Kerry (2003-2004), and Bernie Sanders (2015-2016). "Tad" Devine (1955–) is a longtime political operative/ ad man for the Democratic Party. American Tad Devine, writing for pro- Russian Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 ![]()
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