Subject: [big campaign] McCain's Paradox
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| |m|(Embedded image moved to file: pic18716.gif)RAW: Uncooked Truth,      |m|
| |b|Beyond Belief                                                         |b|
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| |d|Issue #253                                                            |d|
| |e|May 9, 2008                                                           |e|
| |d|McCain's Paradox                                                      |d|
| |i|Dave Willett                                                          |i|
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| |g|(Embedded image moved to file: pic19718.jpg)Not even going to try to  |g|
| |e|be funny today. Senator McCain is starting to unveil his environmental|e|
| |m|message today, with more in-depth policy discussion at the beginning  |m|
| |o|of next week. He can't have been happy about this story in the        |o|
| |v|Washington Post today. Which of course comes only a few weeks after   |v|
| |e|this story in the New York Times.                                     |e|
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| |o|Both stories basically boil down to sweetheart deals supported by     |o|
| |f|McCain that may have put the interests of developers he knew over the |f|
| |i|best interests of the public. Now, land swaps in and of themselves are|i|
| |l|common, often routine, and can in fact be a win-win for everyone when |l|
| |e|the public gets a fair price for the land it's exchanging. It's       |e|
| |:|unclear with this latest deal whether that was the case.              |:|
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| |c|But more importantly, as the Washington Post put it this morning, "As |c|
| |1|McCain positions himself as a champion of environmental causes,       |1|
| |7|observers of the Yavapai Ranch swap say it shows a paradox in the     |4|
| |4|senator's positions. At times, he has fought to protect the delicate  |7|
| |2|desert ecosystem. But when wildlife concerns have thwarted            |7|
| |1|development, his loyalties have shifted."                             |1|
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| |i|As McCain outlines his overall environmental policies over the coming |i|
| |f|days, we'll be watching closely to see whether and how this paradox is|f|
| |)|revealed on other issues as well. We're urging Senator McCain to only |)|
| | |support land swaps that benefit conservation -- not just developers.  | |
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| | |And while Senator McCain deserves credit for his work on early global | |
| | |warming legislation in the Senate and for bringing attention to the   | |
| | |need for urgent action, his efforts to date have been driven by       | |
| | |yesterday's solutions and they won't solve tomorrow's problems. The   | |
| | |science on global warming has changed dramatically over the last five | |
| | |years and the bill Senator McCain has previously championed is        | |
| | |outdated and fails to provide the big changes Americans are demanding.| |
| | |Like President Bush, McCain's policies on global warming offer more of| |
| | |the same, by putting the interests of polluters over the people and   | |
| | |failing to invest in building a clean energy economy that will create | |
| | |new jobs and opportunities at a time when an economic boost is sorely | |
| | |needed. Americans want real change -- investment in clean, renewable  | |
| | |energy instead of Big Oil, Nuclear power and other polluting          | |
| | |industries.                                                           | |
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| | |We need more windmills not windfalls.                                 | |
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