Talk about an ominous start to a vacation.

John McKechnie began his first day on a Delaware beach in the summer of 2008 reading a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal about the serious financial problems facing some of the corporate credit unions.

It would be the start of an action-filled two and a half years that McKechnie said tested and stretched his lobbying and media relations skills.

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