Friday, May 16, 2008
McCain and lobbyists
No matter how much he claims to not bow to special interest lobbies:
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain secured millions in federal funds for a land acquisition program that provided a windfall for an Arizona developer whose executives were major campaign donors, according to a USA Today report.
McCain, an Arizona senator, inserted $14.3 million in a 2003 defense bill to buy land around Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona, in a provision sought by SunCor Development, the largest of 50 landowners near the base, the newspaper reported on its Web site Thursday, citing public records.
Upset with a state law that restricted development around the base, SunCor representatives met with McCain's staff to lobby for funding, USA Today reported, citing the company's president at the time, John Ogden.
The Air Force later paid SunCor $3 million for 122 acres near the base -- three times its assessed value and twice the military's estimated value, the newspaper said.
He isn't a maverick..he isn't honorable (although he might have been once)...and he isn't honest.
And here is the rest of it.
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HEAVEN HELP US!!! I am hoping and praying this man does not end up our president!!!
I'm not sure why but when I see McCain the word that comes to mind is, "weasel" Together we can make sure he isnt elected into office. Voting for him would be a "political suicide". I'm sure by now the majority of people have wisened up to the "wicked" ways of the republicans. And that was the nicest way I could think of to say that.
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