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[Desperado90]

Please can you post this on Zeev's just found the info for all to see that McPuppet is not a reformer.

Thanks

Meritocrat
Party: Independent
Reply #5
Date: Oct. 10, 2008 - 10:44 AM EST
TeamPolitico: Oct. 10, 2008 - 10:29 AM EST
“I think that folks are looking for something different,” Obama continued. “It’s easy to rile up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that’s not what we need right now in the United States.”

Remember all that faux indignation by the McCain campaign when Obama did not accept public financing? In June, McCain said that Obama's move to drop out of the system "should be disturbing to all Americans…Sen. Obama's reversal on public financing is one of a number of reversals ... that he has taken…This election is about a lot of things, but it's also about trust. It's also about whether you can take people's word. ... He said he would stick to his agreement. He didn't." So if McCain took public financing, why is he still holding fund raisers? In May, John McCain’s campaign devised a new system to increase the maximum amount an individual can donate to the unofficial Republican nominee’s election efforts. The “McCain Victory 08” fund is a joint committee, combining the McCain campaign, the Republican National Committee and four key states under a “hybrid legal structure.” This joint fundraising committee will allow his “publicly-financed” campaign to accept individual contributions as large as $70,000 (now that’s a real Republican donor), an amount that is far in excess of contribution limits for candidates and political parties put in place by McCain's own campaign finance reform law, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as McCain-Feingold. The Republican National Committee receives $28,500 of the donation. The remaining funds are divided equally, up to $10,000 a piece, among four states the campaign has designated as battlegrounds for November: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado and New Mexico. The campaign also has individual Victory Fund programs in California, Ohio and Florida. Each of those states can also receive a maximum of $10,000 from an individual. Better still, with a little help from Bush cronies at the FEC he won’t even have to disclose who those fat cat donors are until mid-October or even after the election. Over half of the money McCain is spending right now to pay for his ads is coming from these underhanded, nearly unlimited donations. McCain’s willingness to evade the spirit of his own McCain-Feingold “reform” law by exploiting a loophole and reaping huge contributions from wealthy donors shows the full extent of his hypocrisy and sends a clear signal that his campaign’s participation in the public financing system was a hollow political stunt. McCain you hypocrite, you aren’t fooling anyone. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/... http://voices.washingtonpost.c... For an entertaining line-by-line rebuke of Gov. Palin's RNC speech -and the McCain/Palin ticket- please visit my thread on Politico at: http://dyn.politico.com/member...


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