McCain's "record" on campaign finance is going to be a criminal record

[kpete]

Friday, April 11, 2008
McCain's "record" on campaign finance is going to be a criminal record
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/11/2008 06:32:00 PM ET ·


John McCain can't raise campaign money. So, he's planning to enter the public finance system for the general election - and is trying to goad Obama into joining him. But, McCain isn't in a position to challenge anyone on campaign finance. McCain is a campaign finance criminal. It's not that complicated, but reporters can't seem to grasp it. Given McCain's criminality (breaking the public finance spending cap is a criminal offense), it's the height of hypocrisy for McCain to challenge anyone on campaign finance these days:

"I have a record on reform; Senator Obama has rhetoric on reform," McCain said, adding that the current system "needs further reform."

"I would be glad to join him on reform," McCain told reporters Friday in Lubbock, Texas. "That doesn't change the fact that he committed a year ago to public financing if I would. In direct contradiction to his rhetoric, he's now saying well, he may not do it."

................ McCain is breaking the campaign finance laws by trying to scam the public financing system, which, of course, was not included in Jim Kuhnhenn's article for AP. Of course.

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Obama can't trust McCain's words on campaign finance. McCain's actions on public financing during the primaries speaks louder than any of his words.

more at:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/mccains-record-on-campaign-finance-is.html

[notesdev]

1. More irony

1. He authored and championed the law he is breaking - and still champions it as he's breaking it.

2. He's running for a job that requires him to swear an oath to defend the Constitution, yet the law he wrote (and is now breaking) is the biggest offense to the First Amendment in modern memory.