Subject: [big campaign] CMW: Palin Pick Underscores McCain's Loss of Maverick Reformer Credentials
From: "David Donnelly" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:30:11 -0400
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All,

Here's our statement on Gov. Palin's selection:

http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/29/mccain-palin-pick

David

Palin Pick Underscores McCain's Loss of Maverick Reformer Credentials *FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:*
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 11:20am

Washington, D.C. – Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign finance
watchdog, released the following statement today from its director, David
Donnelly, regarding Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) selection of Gov. Sarah Palin
(R-AK) to be his vice presidential running mate:

"In choosing Governor Palin, Senator McCain is clearly trying to shore up
his past maverick reformer image – an image that is now in tatters due to
the type of campaign he's run and the big money lobbyists he depends on
every day of the week," Donnelly said.

"This selection raises plenty of questions," Donnelly continued. "She bills
herself as a reformer, but has been silent on whether she supports public
financing of elections in her own state. As governor of an oil-producing
state, she's been a friend to Big Oil. Given John McCain's extensive
fundraising from Big Oil, her selection raises concerns of whether the
McCain-Palin ticket will promise the same access for oil companies and their
lobbyists that we've seen for nearly eight years from the Bush-Cheney
administration."

Gov. Palin recently told a reporter, "When I look every day, the big oil
company's building is right out there next to me, and it's quite a reminder
that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil
industry." For John McCain, that mutually beneficial relationship includes
millions in campaign donations.

Campaign Money Watch is a project of the nonpartisan Public Campaign Action
Fund. The organization works to hold politicians who are against
comprehensive campaign finance reform accountable for where they get their
political donations.

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