McCain and Public Financing — UPDATEDNEW REPORT RELEASEDOn June 13, 2008, Campaign Money Watch released a new report, EMBEDDED OR IN BED? John McCain and His Lobbyist Problem, which lays out the financial entanglements and other relationships that exist between McCain and his cadre of 118 lobbyists who have represented some of America’s largest corporations — many of which have had business before the Senate Commerce Committee McCain once chaired — but now find themselves advising, staffing and raising money for McCain’s presidential campaign. The report is available online as a PDF. Below find reports on Sen. John McCain and the various positions he has held over the years on public financing of elections as well as a letter signed by over 9,000 citizens asking Sen McCain to support full public financing of elections if elected.
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Better Than You Think posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-18-2008 Bob Bernick Jr. acknowledges he feels like he's going out on a limb with this editorial in support of full public financing campaign. Bernick is writing in Utah's Deseret News, a paper that has covered its share of money in politics/lobbyists/corruption stories so this seems like a logical progression in their exploration of the topic, but Bernick has dim hopes about support in the state, and in Congress, for public financing. Published in: Congress | Fair Elections Now Act | Public Financing | Utah Take the Money and Run posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-17-2008 Quarterly fundraising reports for federal races were due Tuesday, so the next round of fundraising/fund-racing stories is coming out. Of particular interest, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) continues to raise big bucks from the usual corporate interests, and Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) hits up the members of his family who haven't been indicted for campaign cash. Published in: corruption | fundraising | Ted Stevens | William Jefferson Bagging the Bundlers posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-16-2008 In these campaign contribution-limited times, the big-money bundlers to the presidential campaigns are worth their weight in gold (check or credit card also accepted). McCain, whose Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act helped establish current federal campaign contribution limits, is out-raising Obama on the bundler front but neither man is exactly eschewing the practice that many have called a loophole for big donor influence. Published in: bundlers | campaign finance | presidential race |
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