One Person Who Could Tell John McCain Who Invented the BlackBerry

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Elise Pickering, a member of the Women for John McCain Steering Committee who lobbied for BlackBerry’s creator, Research in Motion, earlier this year. (Via the Senate Lobbying Database.)