"I don't know, How much you got? "
Posted on 07/03/2007 9:07:54 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
(2007-07-03) — One of the chief architects of campaign finance reform legislation has shown that he can ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to reducing the corrupting influence of money on presidential candidates.
Sen. John McCain, because he raised only $11.2 million in the second quarter, is “free to be his own man and to follow the dictates of his own conscience when he’s in the White House,” according to campaign manager Terry Nelson, who has decided to work without pay, and to cut about half the campaign’s staff, to reduce the corrupting influence of “political handlers” on Mr. McCain.
By comparison, Democrat contender Barack Obama raised about $32 million from April to June, and GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani are expected to announce totals at least twice as high as Mr. McCain’s.
“Those other guys are essentially beholden to tens of thousands of special interest donors,” said Mr. Nelson, “but John McCain is the maverick master of his own destiny. McCain is nobody’s poodle. He retains the power to walk away from this corrupt process at any time. His ability to keep himself free from the entanglement of broad-based financial support is what makes him, in my mind, the moral frontrunner.”
"I don't know, How much you got? "
From what I've heard, its not corrupted by ANY money! :0)
In other words, he's keeping the office and phone to facilitate his own job search...
I’m not corrupting any of my money on him.
Its funny because its true.
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