Please can you post this on Zeev's just found the info for all to see that McPuppet is not a reformer.
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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...
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."- Thomas Jefferson 1789
Meritocrat Party: Independent Reply #8 Date: Oct. 10, 2008 - 10:46 AM EST Meet John McCain's friends and advisors: Keating: Remember him? $2,000,000,000.00 paid by US taxpayers to bail out Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan… McCain and Keating were personal friends following from 1981 until HE WENT TO JAIL. McCain received $112,000 between 1982 and 1987 in political contributions from Keating and his associates and wife Cindy McCain and ‘dad invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986. McCain and family made nine trips at Keating's expense on Keating's jet including vacations to Keating's retreat at Cat Cay, Bahamas. McCain met with the federal regulators on Keating's behalf (but not to influence them – yeah right). Confesses McCain, “…it was the wrong thing to do." Yeah, so is voting for you in November. http://www.keatingeconomics.co... Jack Abramoff: A review of campaign finance filings shows McCain accepted more than $100,000 in “donations” from employees of Greenberg Traurig, Jack’s lobbying firm until HE WENT TO JAIL. Phil Gram: Mr. “nation of whiners” who deregulated oil trading and banking – voila Sub-Prime Meltdown and $150 a barrel oil. He and his wife were big friends of Ken Lay (died just before HE WENT TO JAIL); he collected more than $97,000 in campaign contributions from ENRON. Wendy Gramm was on ENRON’s board and was paid between $915,000 and $1.8 million in salary, attendance fees, stock options and dividends for helping ENRON implode. John Green and Wayne Berman: McCain’s chief liaison to Congress and his national finance co-chairman billed more than $720,000 in lobbying fees from 2005 through last year to Ameriquest Mortgage – big subprime circus - which has since been bought out and was forced to settle suits with 49 states for $325 million. Carly Fiorina: John McCain’s economic brain and the RNC Victory Chair, was former CEO of Hewlett Packard (before she was effectively fired by the board for poor performance). While CEO she fired 25,700 workers in 2001, and saw her pay jump 231 percent, from $1.2 million in 2001 to $4.1 million in 2002, that’s $112.84 for each laid off employee. When she left she took a $45M golden parachute. She’s a real saint and a job creator! Charlie Black and Thomas G. Loeffler: McCain senior advisor and his campaign co-chairman, received more than $15 million lobbying the White House, Congress and others as agents of nearly a dozen foreign clients in recent years.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."- Thomas Jefferson 1789
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