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Joe Republic
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« on: February 11, 2007, 06:28:20 PM »

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McCain taps cash he sought to limit

Onetime campaign finance reformer calls on big donors

By John Solomon
Updated: 7:52 a.m. ET Feb. 11, 2007



Just about a year and a half ago, Sen. John McCain went to court to try to curtail the influence of a group to which A. Jerrold Perenchio gave $9 million, saying it was trying to "evade and violate" new campaign laws with voter ads ahead of the midterm elections.

As McCain launches his own presidential campaign, however, he is counting on Perenchio, the founder of the Univision Spanish-language media empire, to raise millions of dollars as co-chairman of the Arizona Republican's national finance committee.

In his early efforts to secure the support of the Republican establishment he has frequently bucked, McCain has embraced some of the same political-money figures, forces and tactics he pilloried during a 15-year crusade to reduce the influence of big donors, fundraisers and lobbyists in elections. That includes enlisting the support of Washington lobbyists as well as key players in the fundraising machine that helped President Bush defeat McCain in the 2000 Republican primaries.

Once led fight against ‘soft money’

After enduring his own brush with scandal in the early 1990s, when he and four Senate colleagues pressured regulators on behalf of Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan association, while collecting donations and favors from him, McCain became a leader in the effort to eliminate "soft money" in elections -- large donations from corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals. In 2002, McCain joined forces with Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) to finally push through legislation ending soft money and placing strict limits on donations.

But now the contrast between McCain the presidential candidate and McCain the reformer can be jarring. McCain's campaign says that he is still studying whether to forgo the public financing and spending limits he has long supported, but that he will not be handicapped by restrictions his competitors will not face in 2008.

McCain the reformer worked unsuccessfully through Congress and the courts to try to stop nonprofit political groups known as 527s from using unlimited donations to run political ads and fund other activities aimed at influencing voters in the run-up to elections. He reintroduced legislation last week to end 527 donations, but there appears to be little appetite in Congress to pass it.


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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2007, 06:31:41 PM »

McCain damns himself with everything he does these days.
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« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2007, 06:38:17 PM »

How is this "break[ing] the McCain-Feingold law"?
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« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2007, 06:39:51 PM »

You don't spell his name M-C-C-A-I-N. You spell it I-D-I-O-T.
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« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2007, 06:47:32 PM »

How is this "break[ing] the McCain-Feingold law"?

The "might" in the thread title was speculative, not a prediction.  The point of the article is that he is gaining an appetite for the type of money that his law banned.
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« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2007, 07:04:34 PM »

You don't spell his name M-C-C-A-I-N. You spell it I-D-I-O-T.

You got him there!
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2007, 04:56:58 AM »

As usual, John McCain is a total hypocrite.

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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2007, 04:26:00 PM »

Woops!

WaPo correction:

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"The headline on a Feb. 11 article about Sen. John McCain's fundraising, "McCain Taps Cash He Sought to Limit," was misleading. As was clear in the story, McCain is seeking contributions for his presidential campaign from donors who once contributed "soft" money or who contributed to nonprofit political groups known as 527s, not from the groups themselves."
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2007, 05:03:54 PM »

McCain damns himself with everything he does these days.

One might say his career began like a Frank Capra movie and is ending like a Shakespearian tradgedy.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2007, 07:14:51 PM »

This might lose my support of McCain.
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