Subject: [big campaign] McCain won't change or reform Washington
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: big campaign <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:04:35 -0400
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Campaign Money Watch¹s release:

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE            CONTACTS

Tuesday, June 3, 2008            David Miller, Communications Manager

            (202) 448-6154

 

Campaign Finance Watchdog Says McCain Won¹t Change Or Reform Washington

Washington, DC  Responding to an Associated Press report that Sen. John
McCain will try to position himself as the candidate with a ³history of
fighting to reform government,² Campaign Money Watch issued the following
statement today from its director, David Donnelly:

³John McCain may have a history of reforming government, but because he
hasn¹t pledged to pass comprehensive public financing for all federal
offices if elected, a McCain presidency would continue to allow big money
donors and well-connected lobbyists to call the shots.

³The evidence of McCain¹s retreat from reform is mounting every day. Sen.
McCain has refused to cosponsor legislation to fix the presidential public
financing system after he had once authored it himself. He has surrounded
himself with 118 lobbyists who are advising, staffing, and raising money 
and conflicts of interest  for his campaign. For example, just yesterday he
proposed a divestiture policy in his speech about Iran, but five lobbyists
or advisors on his campaign have worked for companies that profited from
trading with the Iranians, including former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly
Fiorina and lobbyist Charlie Black, who lobbied for General Electric.

³For those who need more evidence that McCain won¹t change Washington:
McCain is raising millions of dollars through a loophole for campaign
donations 30 times larger than what the law otherwise allows. He has pledged
to appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of those who have already
begun dismantling those past reforms he once supported. He once called his
home state¹s Clean Elections public financing policy a national model. Now
he opposes its adoption for federal races. And the list goes on.

³Perhaps at one point, John McCain could claim he was a reformer. But he no
longer deserves to carry that mantle.²

Campaign Money Watch, a project of Public Campaign Action Fund, holds
politicians accountable for opposing and for the special favors they do for
big contributors and lobbyists. A comprehensive report on McCain¹s positions
on public financing can be found at http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccain.

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