McCain: Pig At The Trough, "My Friends"

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 8:44 AM PDT

2008/05/09 · 08:44

McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer

By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 9, 2008; A01

PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here 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].

Initially reluctant to support the swap, the Arizona Republican became a key figure in pushing the deal through Congress after the rancher and his partners hired lobbyists that included McCain's 1992 Senate campaign manager, two of his former Senate staff members (one of whom has returned as his chief of staff), and an Arizona insider who was a major McCain donor and is now bundling campaign checks.

When McCain's legislation passed in November 2005, the ranch owner gave the job of building as many as 12,000 homes to SunCor Development, a firm in Tempe, Ariz., run by Steven A. Betts, a longtime McCain supporter who has raised more than $100,000 for the presumptive Republican nominee. Betts said he and McCain never discussed the deal.

Keating 5 remembered!

John McCain is Charlie Black's right-hand man.

Charlie Black is the God of all Washington lobbyists.
Jack Abramoff was just a rookie kid who could only dream of maybe, one day, becoming like Mr Black.

McBush is riding around on lobbyist's jets, he has numerous lobbyists on his campaign staff, he uses his wife's corporate jet at a cut rate or nothing at all, but doesn't think her tax returns are relevant enough to be released.

I guess we know he is so trustworthy because he calls us "my friends".

McBush is a complete sellout. There is no more principled maverick, if there ever was one. He has flip/flopped like a live fish in a boat on every issue, and has become the consumate corporate owned, republican party leg humper. A hundred years in Iraq, can't remember the difference between suni and shia, voted for torture, voted against the GI bill that would have actually provided better care for our troops when they come home, was eating birthday cake with Bush while the victims of Katrina were suffering and dying, and now we find that he is catering to his financial backers by trading them the peoples property. The democrats are going to feast on his political bones.

All Pigs are created equal,except some pigs are more equal than others. George Orwell.

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