FlAttorney's Position Statement on the Abramoff Scandal
Comments Re: McCain's New Lobbyist Reform Bill
GOP Sen. John McCain to the Rescue: - Of course, the last thing the GOP needs is the new Lobbyist and Ethics Reforms Bill (S. 2128) proposed by Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), along with the GOP's #1 Tom DeLay public critic, and spineless loser, Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT), with his "mirror bill" in the House (HR 4575). Wasn't the damage to the GOP, and significant help to the Dems-Soros~Shadow Party, that McCain did with his McCain-Feingold Bill, that became The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, enough reform for one century by this presidential want-to-be. Co-sponsors of McCain's S. 2128 bill are Democrat, and Abramoff Scandal tied, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis. What is McCain thinking? These hypocrite Democrat co-sponsors received over $45,000 in Abramoff Scandal money. Lieberman received at least $29,830; Durbin at least $14,000; and Feingold at least $1,250 from Abramoff, per NRSC research.
Secondly, John McCain has done nothing about his significantly Abramoff Scandal tied and corrupt Senate Indian Affairs Committee (SIAC) co-chairman, Ranking Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan. Dorgan is one of the top Democrats as to Abramoff Scandal money received and lack of ethics in this matter. Dorgan only came clean, as to lack of proper Abramoff donations disclosure, when he was exposed by an AP investigative article. SIAC has been performing an 18-month investigation into the lobbying activities of Jack Abramoff et. al. - activities McCain described as an ''exploitation of Native Americans.'' What is McCain talking about? His own SIAC co-chair and Ranking Committee Democrat, along with his new lobbyist reform bill Democrat co-sponsors, are involved in this Abramoff Scandal, exploiting some Native American tribes by getting kickback donations for political favors by opposing tribes. John McCain needs to demand that Dorgan step down from the SIAC Abramoff investigation and John McCain needs to stop drinking the same Soro~Shadow Party Kool-Aid that his Democrat buddies are drinking.
McCain introduced S.2128 on 12.16.05, where it was read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. July 2005, Sen. Russell Feingold introduced the The Lobbying and Ethics Reform Act. (S. 1398). May 2005, Rep. Marty Meehan introduced the Special Interest Lobbying and Ethics Accountability Act of 2005 (H.R.2412). Both bills were to improve lobbyist disclosure requirements, and target privately funded trips along with lobbyist gifts to Congressional members and staff. Both Democrats and Republicans shot down the two bills, with the bills never making it out of their respective Committee’s. The same rehash is in McCain’s and Shays new lobbyist reform and ethics bills, probably with the same end results. Bottomline - Does lobbyist reform need to happen? The answer is yes, but not by McCain, Shays, and corrupt hypocrite Democrats involved in this Abramoff Scandal.
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