Subject: More on McCain and the Stimulus Bill
From: "Andrew Baumann" <[email-masked]>
To: "ic2008" <[email-masked]>, "Ana Iparraguirre" <[email-masked]>, "Bryan Fisher" <[email-masked]>, "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, "Kristi Fuksa" <[email-masked]>, "Paul Begala" <[email-masked]>, "Stan Greenberg" <[email-masked]>, "Susan McCue" <[email-masked]>, "Tara McGuinness" <[email-masked]>, "Tom Matzzie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:01:40 -0500

From the Note.  He was in Washington but chose to skip the vote because
he had "a couple of meetings."  And his spokeswoman says he would have
voted no because it was "procedural."

That exchange happened when senators convened to vote on a proposed
economic stimulus package. The package failed to meet the 60-vote
threshold by a single vote -- which happens to be the precise number of
votes McCain held but did not cast, avoiding "a difficult choice given
his status as the Republican presidential front-runner," the AP's Laurie
Kellman writes. <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4253383>  

McCain's plane landed at Dulles airport in time for the vote, but he
skipped the Senate session. Before the vote, he told reporters: "I don't
know if I'm doing that. We've got a couple of meetings scheduled." 

Campaign spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker says McCain would have voted "no":
"It was a procedural vote, and his absence wouldn't have affected the
outcome as he would have opposed cloture." 

 

 

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