The "maverick" likes to tout himself as a moderate reformer, or at least he used to before bowing/pandering to the religious right to win the Republican nomination. Well, those former assertions are starting to ring hollow as campaign contributions to the Arizona Senator are analyzed. While McCain rhetorically tells people to go visit Abramoff in prison to see if he's a Washington insider, he might not want people to know the answer to that question.
From The Huffington Post:
A review of campaign finance filings shows that the Arizona Republican has accepted more than $100,000 in donations from employees of Greenberg Traurig, the very firm where Abramoff once reigned.
Those donations include several thousand dollars from registered lobbyists who represent, or have represented, businesses such as NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch's media empire; Spi Spirits, a Cyprus based company that has fought with the Russian government for the rights to the Stolichnaya vodka brand name; El Paso Corp, a major energy company; General Motors; and the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a group of businesses and trade associations "concerned" about the shortage of lesser skilled and unskilled labor.
All told, McCain has received more than $400,000 from lobbying firms, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And among his major fundraisers ("bundlers") 59 have been identified as lobbyists by the non-profit organization Public Citizen.
I was once told by a wise man that the people you consider friends tell a lot about you. By the looks of what is listed above he likes to drink non-Russian stoli while screwing over GM workers and supporting immigration so that employers can have access to cheap labor, all while watching the propaganda being spewed on Fox News. Sounds like an immoral life to me, no wonder all the purity-obsessed evangelicals hate his guts.
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