Freddie, Fannie Funds Went to McCain Aide(Don't Forget!)

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http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-09-25-0107.html

Pay a lobbying firm $15,000 a month for several years to do no lobbying. Pay a former campaign aide to John McCain $30,000 a month for five years after the senator's failed bid in 2000 for the presidency.

At any other time, it would be business as usual in Washington.

Not today. The money came from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two failed housing giants that are a huge part of the financial crisis imperiling the economy.

And the recipient of most of the funds is McCain's current campaign manager, Rick Davis.

"The payments are for 'access insurance' with the Republican Party and with someone very close to McCain," James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, said yesterday.

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