Subject: [big campaign] McCain's Lobbyists Netted Nearly A BILLION Dollars
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:37:33 -0400
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Here¹s a new analysis Campaign Money Watch just completed:

http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/13/the-nearly-1-billion-conne
ction-mccain-and-his-lobbyists-clients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 9:11am

The (Nearly) $1 Billion Connection: McCain And His Lobbyists¹ Clients

Washington, D.C.  Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign finance
watchdog group, announced today the result of a new analysis of the fees
Sen. John McCain¹s (R-AZ) lobbyist bundlers, advisors and staff members have
collected from domestic clients over the past decade.

The total? A staggering $930,949,819.

³The McCain campaign relies on big money lobbyists, and they¹ll rely on
him,² said David Donnelly, director of Campaign Money Watch. ³In the
Œyou-scratch-my-back, I¹ll-scratch-yours¹ world of Washington, $931 million
gets the special interests the best government money can buy. But just think
of the payday these lobbyists might expect in a McCain Administration.²

Campaign Money Watch¹s analysis of data provided by the nonpartisan Center
for Responsive Politics (http://www.opensecrets.org) also found that
employees and Political Action Committees of these lobbyists¹ clients have
donated $11,750,051 to McCain¹s campaigns, a fact that raises its own set of
problems, Donnelly said.

³How can John McCain say he¹ll reduce the influence of special interests in
Washington, when he¹s so fully dependent on lobbyists and their clients to
finance his campaign?² Donnelly asked. ³All candidates need to raise money,
but is this exemplary of a candidate who claims he¹ll tackle the special
interests?²

To highlight the connections between John McCain and his lobbyists, Campaign
Money Watch launched a new Web site last Tuesday called McCain¹s Lobbyists
(http://www.McCainsLobbyists.com). The site shows focuses on 40 of the most
prolific  some would argue profligate  lobbyists around McCain. It shows
how much money their clients have given to McCain, as well as how much money
those lobbyists have earned off those clients.

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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