Last night while in NYC for his appearance on The Daily Show, John McCain also made time to attend a controversial fundraiser hosted by New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson IV on his behalf that may not have violated the letter of the campaign finance laws that McCain championed just a few years ago, but certainly the spirit of them. The event was said to have raised over $7 million, including a pledged $100,000 each from the 19 co-hosts and another $25,000 from each of the 39 co-chairs. Donors were apparently not limited by the $2,300 cap on individuals and could give tens of thousands of their own cash thanks to McCain’s Victory Committee created specifically to get around donation limits.
This isn’t the first McCain fundraiser to raise eyebrows. Just a few days ago Judicial Watch “filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Senator McCain’s (R-Arizona) campaign may have accepted an in-kind contribution from foreign nationals in contravention of federal election laws” for a fundraiser that “took place in London, England, on March 20, 2008 — and Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says the event involved two British nationals.“
You may also recall that the McCain campaign has already “officially broken the limits imposed by the presidential public financing system” and is facing lawsuits. On Tuesday, the White House moved to “rig any FEC enforcement decision concerning campaign finance questions” related to it. Also, McCain has been breaking the campaign finance law he backed just last year that requires presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets through his campaign’s privileged use of his mega-millionaire wife’s “Sugar Momma Express” at heavily discounted rates, which is especially troubling that he’s able to tap into such marital perks since McCain keeps all of his assets in his wife’s name, save for one checking account, and, as Steve reported earlier, Cindy McCain’s now openly swearing that she will “never” release her tax info.
The lengths to which McCain is going to get around the very rules he used to support until they applied to him and the secrecy surrounding his wife’s assets is very troubling. He’s becoming more and more McSame as Bush every day.
Filed Under: Election 08, Ethics, John McCain, Republican Hypocrisy
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I wonder if Scar and Tucker will comment on this tomorrow?
Love the photo. This guy as President? I think I’ll gag!
I know it’s off topic, but don’t miss the Interview about Obama’s Dog
Gotta love the way the Bushies are rigging the next election [fraud].
You’re assuming he was ever different?!
Leave John McBush alone! I mean it!!
Such a double standard. Gillespie in 04 states that its fair game and important to see Teresa Heinz Kerry’s tax records and now the GOP nominee’s wife, Cindy McCain, flatly refuses to release her tax records (never mind she could be first lady). I wonder if some GOPers will say, fairly, that she should release those records. if she, as the wife of the presumptive president, has the position of First Lady, a sort of ‘public’ position, and he as President sometimes confides in her, as First Lady, things having to do with his job as President, and she therefore offers advice, well, then to me, a voter, it is important to know more about her through her tax records. yes, we’re not electing her, but as First Lady and the wife of the President there is a lot of crossover between the two, duh, and as taxpayers we deserve to know all we can about our presidents. and some about their spouses.
John McBush just wants to continue the legacy of the worst president in US history, leave him alone!! No peace and no prosperity (except for the ultra rich) is the GOP mantra and he just wants to continue down that path unmolested but everybody wants to bust McBush’s chomps and stand in his way, leave McBush alone right now!
LEAVE JOHN McBUSH ALONE!!!!!
The Cons think they are above the Law. And they’ll keep doing it. Modifying the law to suit their own purposes.
Come on now we’ve put up with this bullsh*t for 7 YEARS.
rules don’t apply to thr gop. that’s how they roll.
…more death, more destruction, more trillion dollar wars at taxpayer expense for big oil…Leave him alone!!!
L.A. Confidential @ 9:
They’re doing more than modifying the law. McSame is breaking election law, while Bush is installing partisan hacks at the FEC to ignore the law.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 12:
Exactly. The same guys who complained about liberal judges interpreting the law as they saw fit.
CathiefromCanada @ 3:
Obamas dog isn’t going to win the election Obama is going to need all the help he can get. People forget Clinton left office with the highest approval rating of any president in U.S. History and the last thing Obama needs is for his people to be disenfranchising that block of voters. If that happens Obamas screwed. Nothing less then Divine intervention could put him over the top in Nov.
This guy is a walking, talking conflict of interest.
He ain’t right in the head, either.
please…mccain made sure to write the law in with hundreds of loopholes
i never like the law
shoulda just been left at full disclosure
with real teeth
such as, break the law, go right to fuckin jail
McPain is a CROOK and a LIAR - that’s why he gets so much face time on C&L - he’s right at home!!
Damn, I’m a bleeding heart liberal, who loves the J-E-T-S, but first I have to deal with Joe Wille is a Repug and now you tell me the team owner is holding fundraisers for McCain?? What’s left?
Say there wasn’t a Revolutionary War that fostered the idea of a United State of America, this polliwog would be known as Lord J.Sydney McCain of the Western Territories. Same Anglo royal arrogance, same privileged BS.
more and more McSame as Bush every day
No! McWorse!
Liar, Liar Liar….
Scary picture to look at early in the morning!
This geezer wants to be President? Yuck
IOKIYAR
Gotta’ love that “liberal MSM” for being all over this …………….
Can we go ahead and assume that everyone who donated to Gampy also took the time to register themselves and their children for the armed forces?
McCain lost some of his marbles
One day he voted for Bush, the next day he didn’t
Sunnis, Shiites all the same! ROFL
McCain belongs in the Nut House, not the White House !!