John McCainPumped Full of Cash Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 3:48pm.
The oil industry is reporting record profits as consumers empty their wallets at the pump, so why is Senator John McCain (R-AZ) suddenly backing policies like offshore oil drilling that do nothing to help gas prices today (or the environment tomorrow), but stand to make Big Oil a handsome profit down the road? Public Campaign Action Fund's Campaign Money Watch project released a new report today that sheds some light on McCain's energy policy decisions, and what they have to do with the money from the oil industry that has filled his campaign coffers.
Rewriting History Submitted by Adam Smith on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 3:21pm.
Trying to leave behind his involvement in the Keating Five scandal, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his advisers today declared the whole thing was a "political smear job," and it didn't really go down how anybody says it did. Well, as the Google tells us, there is someone that disagrees with Sen. McCain. That would be Sen. McCain.
Ad Up Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 3:17pm.
In light of the Wall Street downturn, incessant bailout talk, and John McCain's decision to "suspend" his campaign and jump in to the bailout negotiations, Campaign Money Watch, a project of Public Campaign Action Fund, has a new ad that reminds Sen. McCain of own ethically wobbling history with the financial and real estate industries and asks the Senator to throw his weight behind Fair Elections legislation instead.
On Freddie's Payroll Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 12:47pm.
The revelation that John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, had until last month continued to receive payments from troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac through a public affairs firm he owns has prompted the Los Angeles Times (among others) to question how much longer McCain's "reformer" image can hold up.
This ain't K-Mart Submitted by Adam Smith on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 7:56am.
Several news outlets are reporting this morning that the lobby shop owned by Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign manager, Rick Davis, was receiving payments of $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac through August. You may remember that the American taxpayer recently payed a hefty fee in bailing out Fannie Mae and its brother Freddie Mac. This contradicts statements by Sen. McCain earlier in the week that Davis had not worked on behalf of Freddie Mac since 2005. A system that won't be going bankrupt Submitted by Adam Smith on Thu, 09/18/2008 - 12:01pm.
David Donnellly, national campaigns director here at Public Campaign Action Fund, has a new piece on Huffington Post about the recklessness and greed that led to the downturn. While Sen. John McCain has overnight become an economic populist, the trouble we're currently in didn't start on Wall Street, it started in Washington, D.C.
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