http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/05/09/how-to-buy-john-mccain/
May 9th 2008
How to buy John McCain
by Peter Cohan
Today's Wa****ngton Post re****ts on the latest successful purchase of
John McCain's services -- yielding a sweet real estate deal for an
Arizona developer in the wake of his $100,000 campaign contribution.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24533311/
But that railer against the role of money in politics appears to have
been bought many times before -- and American workers and taxpayers
have paid the price.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/mccain-the-antilobbyis_n_87941.html
The Wa****ngton Post re****ts that McCain pushed legislation that let an
Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest there
for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for
development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of
his top presidential campaign fundraisers.
Specifically, Steven A. Betts, who raised $100,000 for McCain, got the
job of developing rancher Fred Ruskin's land after McCain's
legislation helped Ruskin pick it up at below market rates.
But this is at least the fifth transaction where a campaign
contributor has benefited from McCain's power.
Here are five others:
* $100 billion U.S. Air Force contract to European company, EADS.
In March 2008, McCain used his position on the Senate Armed Services
Committee to help EADS, parent of Airbus, a former client of his
national finance chairman, win a $100 billion Air Force contract
against Boeing Inc. after receiving $14,000 in donations from EADS
employees.
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/03/12/john-mccains-finance-staff-helps-french-win-100-billion-air-fo/
* Del Webb land deal.
In 1994, McCain helped a lobbyist for land developer Del Webb Corp.
pursue an exchange in the Las Vegas area.
* Diamond land deal.
In 1991 and 1994, McCain sponsored two bills sought by donor Donald R.
Diamond that yielded the developer thousands of acres in trade for
national parkland.
* Lindner land deal.
In the late 1990s, McCain promoted a deal in Arizona's Tonto National
Forest involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance,
a company run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a big contributor to
national political parties and presidential candidates.
* $3.4 billion Keating S&L bailout.
In the 1980s, he intervened to keep regulators away from Charles
Keating, a Savings & Loan operator, who contributed to McCain's
campaign and let McCain's wife co-invest in a real estate deal.
Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan ultimately failed, costing
taxpayers $3.4 billion.
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/02/20/did-john-mccain-have-an-affair-with-a-lobbyist-and-use-his-power/
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Sounds like this McCain story has legs.
Harry
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