Subject: [big campaign] Does the McCain/Palin Ticket Want Unlimited Political Donations?
From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:19:54 -0400
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A PRESS RELEASE FROM CAMPAIGN MONEY WATCH
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 2, 2008
 
CONTACT
David Miller, Communications Manager
(202) 448-6154
 
Does the McCain/Palin Ticket Want Unlimited Political Donations?
 
Republican Party Platform Plank on Campaign Finance Would Open the
Floodgates for Special Interest Money
 
         Washington, D.C.  Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign
finance watchdog group, raised questions today about whether Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) support the Republican National
Committee platform on unlimited donations to political candidates and
committees as adopted by the delegates on Monday night.
 
            The platform approved by convention delegates last night, on
page 21, opposes ³any restrictions or conditions² on how much money donors
can give to causes or candidates. The plank comes on the heels of an ABC
News report showing Republican Party officials and lobbyists dancing and
drinking together over the weekend at lavish pre-convention parties funded
by, among others, chemical and oil companies as Hurricane Gustav was heading
to the Gulf Coast. Similarly lavish parties were the talk of the town in
Denver last week during the Democratic National Convention.
 
            ³John McCain¹s campaign claims that adding Gov. Palin to the
ticket will improve their reformer image,² said David Donnelly, director of
Campaign Money Watch. ³But can we trust John McCain to really reform
Washington when he¹s surrounded his campaign with big money lobbyists, when
he¹s added a scandal-plagued politician to the ticket who has no record on
comprehensive campaign finance reform, and when he can¹t even reform his own
party?
 
            ³Does John McCain agree with Republican leaders like President
George W. Bush, disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that wealthy individuals should be able to
give as much money as they want to candidates?² Donnelly asked. ³Many
Republicans disagree with this notion. But as the standard-bearer of his
party, John McCain must know that his party¹s platform plank flies in the
face of the type of reform and change that is needed in Washington today.²
 
            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.

-- 
David Miller
Communications/Web Manager
Public Campaign Action Fund/Campaign Money Watch
1828 L St. NW #250
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 448-6154

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