Posted on 08/21/2010 11:10:16 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
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That list should be sent to every citizen of Arizona. People shoud copy and paste that into an email of every person they know in Az and ask them to pass it on. I did.
Hope you don’t mind. :-)
One reason, voters are mostly stupid.
Fools ansd idiots are allowed to vote.
Thank you AuntB!
“Hayworth, in my opinion, is part of the establishment that needs to be swept out”
Well, then you haven’t been paying attention, have you?? Your ‘opinion’ has NOTHING to do with fact or history.
Check their records instead of believing McCain.
Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
TheTownCrier ^ | Jan. 29, 2010 | TheTownCrier
Posted on Fri Jan 29 10:05:26 2010 by AuntB
The scene is the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut . The year 2000. The congressman has $100 chips stacked high, having a grand time at the crap table. He likes to gamble and isn’t afraid to show some temper when he loses. Along for the ride are his campaign manager and one of the two biggest lobbyist handing out campaign money from various Indian tribes who was also a 20 year friend of the legislator.
By now we’ve all heard about the money J.D. Hayworth received from an Indian tribe by way of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was one of the two big boys in Indian tribe money lobbying.
Pot, meet Kettle....
However, it was not J.D. Hayworth, nor Jack Abramoff at the crap table. It was Senator John McCain, campaign manager and Indian lobbyist in his own right, Rick Davis, along with Scott Reed, now the one remaining big time lobbyist handling the tribes and their money.
National Review wrote:
“That would be this New York Times story, describing McCain playing the craps table with Rick Davis and Scott Reed. Davis is a longtime McCain friend and associate, currently his campaign manager, who runs a lobbying firm that represented Indian tribes with casino interests. Reed also worked as a lobbyist for Indian tribes, but he was also Bob Dole’s campaign manager in 1996, where McCain is a top surrogate”
Another article further describes the scene.
” McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino.
The visit had been arranged by the lobbyist, Scott Reed, who works for the Mashantucket Pequots, a tribe that has contributed heavily to McCain’s campaigns and built Foxwoods into the world’s second-largest casino. Joining them was Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager. Their night of good fortune epitomized not just McCain’s affection for gambling, but also the close relationship he has built with the gambling industry and its lobbyists during his 25-year career in Congress.
As a two-time chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, McCain has done more than any other member of Congress to shape the laws governing America’s casinos, helping to transform the once-sleepy Indian gambling business into a $26-billion-a-year behemoth with 423 casinos across the country.
As factions of the ferociously competitive gambling industry have vied for an edge, they have found it advantageous to cultivate a relationship with McCain or hire someone who has one, according to an examination based on more than 70 interviews and thousands of pages of documents.
McCain portrays himself as a Washington maverick unswayed by special interests, referring recently to lobbyists as “birds of prey.” Yet in his current campaign, more than 40 fund-raisers and top advisers have lobbied or worked for an array of gambling interests - including tribal and Las Vegas casinos, lottery companies, and online poker purveyors.
When rules being considered by Congress threatened a California tribe’s planned casino in 2005, McCain helped spare the tribe. Its lobbyist, who had no prior experience in the gambling industry, had a nearly 20-year friendship with McCain.”
Hayworth’s explanation of the Abramoff contribution is spelled out by him here. Hayworth got direct contributions of $2,250 from Abramoff, which was donated to charity, Hurricane Katrina relief. The Indian tribe in question insisted the money they gave by way of Abramoff be kept by Hayworth.
Hayworth’s exoneration of any criminal charges, by the US Dept. of Justice is in a letter from them here.
The McCain campaign is trying to use this non issue to destroy Hayworth, while indulging in bigger tribe money and underhanded backroom deals far surpassing anything Jack Abramoff pulled.
McCain has been chair of the Indian affairs committee since 2005, having served on it for many years prior. He used this position to bring down Abramoff, who was second only to handing out tribe dollars to McCain’s man Scott Reed. Some have speculated the move was not so much to rid politics of the likes of Abramoff, but to gain a monopoly on tribe campaign dollars. There’s even a book, ‘The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Jack Abramoff’ speculating McCain’s motives.
In one such article, Chuck Muth writes:
“When stories of Jack Abramoff taking various Indian tribes to the cleaners first hit the press, McCain - Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and author of the un-American, anti-free speech McCain-Feingold campaign censorship law - decided this would be an excellent opportunity to settle some old scores, help out some old pals, and do what Sen. McCain does best...get media attention for Sen. McCain.
As the Washington insider newspaper The Hill reported in March 2004, McCain wrote at least one letter on Senate letterhead praising Reed to one of Abramoff’s clients, the Saginaw Chippewa. Five days later, Abramoff was fired and the Saginaw Chippewa tribe retained Reed. In addition, columnist Bob Novak reported last December that on the eve of the investigation’s hearings, Reed handed some $200,000 in bundled contributions to McCain. Does this smell, or what?
The thing is, this McCain “investigation” looks like a real scandal in and of itself. If there are/were actual crimes involved, that’s what the Justice Department is for, not the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Instead, McCain appears to be using his committee and his position to (a) grandstand for his 2008 presidential campaign, (b) pay back conservatives who opposed him in 2000, and (c) scratch the back of a well-heeled lobbyist who is scratching right back. “
McCain/Feingold/Campaign Finance ‘reform’ , more than meets the eye.
In 2006, Amanda Carpenter of Human Events relays this story.
McCain’s Law Preserved Loophole for Tribal Contributions
“Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, says the campaign finance reform law he sponsored in 2002 intentionally left open a loophole that allows Indian tribes to make campaign contributions to an unlimited number of candidates for federal office.
Before McCain’s law passed, most Americans were allowed to give an aggregate of only $25,000 to party committees and candidates for federal office in any two-year election cycle. Indian tribes were not subject to that cap. McCain’s law lifted the aggregate-contribution cap to $95,000 for ordinary American contributors, but declined to impose any cap at all on Indian tribes.
When I asked McCain last week why this was the case, he said, “Because tribes are ‘sovereign entities.’ They are treated on a government-to-government relationship, and we’re looking at that whole issue.”
I asked, “But it was an intentional thing?” McCain replied, “Oh yeah. … Because they are ‘sovereign nations’ unquote. We sign treaties with them.”
When I pointed out that the U.S. does not allow contributions from foreign governments, McCain said, “No, we don’t. But they’re American citizens. So, it’s a unique kind of a status.”
Evidently, Mr. McCain also believes he deserves ‘a unique kind of status’. And why not be the ‘anti-earmark’ champion when there is a ready source of campaign income flowing from lobbyists controlling Indian money?
How very ‘Maverick’ of you, Senator McCain.
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FLUSH THE JOHN! McCain HAS to go!
(To the tune of Frankie & Johnny!)
Johnny and Teddy were Senators
On opposite sides of the aisle
They got together and drafted a bill
Guaranteed to make illegals smile
Amnesty was their game – and they had no shame
Johnny and Senator Feingold
Gave campaign finance a try
But then the highest court in the land
Said the 1st amendment must apply
Gotta play by the rules – now Johnny looks like a fool
Johnny and Mr. Obama
They both agree Gitmo should close
But bringing terrorists into the USA
Is a plan that we oppose
No, they don’t belong – and Johnny’s got it all wrong
Now Johnny and Senator Lieberman
Got together on cap and trade
Anemic hands across the aisle
Gonna send the country to its grave
It’s time to let him know – old Johnny’s gotta go
Johnny believes Global Warming
Limousine Liberals and all
Congressional junkets to Copenhagen
Everybody’s havin’ a ball
Just ask Al Gore - Johnny knows the score
S & L Man Charlie Keating
He came to Johnny one day
Said “the government boys are sniffing around
How much to make ‘em go away?”
Did Johnny take a bribe to join the Keating 5?
Now fast-forward 20 years later
Banks are in trouble again
Johnny says, “Let’s bail ‘em out
It’s just a trillion – or maybe ten.
Let’s put some wind in their sails – ‘cause they’re too big to fail.”
We know there’s oil in Alaska
Drilling won’t cause any harm
But Johnny agrees with the tree-hugging geeks
Gas is gonna cost a leg and an arm
Johnny why can’t you see what’s good for you and me?
Now everyone knows about ACORN
They get lots of taxpayers’ dough
Prostitution rings and voter fraud
And home loans to any old schmoe
No matter ACORN’s crimes – Johnny thinks they’re just fine
We’re tired of hearin’ your flip-flops
We’re tired of hearin’ your lies
You may think we’re all dummies but you can’t
Pull the wool over our eyes
You’re career’s hit a snag - so start packin’ your bags
‘Cause Johnny, you’ve worn out your welcome
It’s time to bid DC goodbye
Go write a book or learn to cook
And eat a little humble pie
Just ask Sheriff Joe – he says you gotta go
Yeah, go Johnny, go – it’s time to hit the road.
Good-bye
MUST SEE!! on YOU TUBE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJobkdeho88
Sarah Palin came to Arizona in March and said she and the Tea Party all wanted McCain.
JD never got his sneakers on the ground before it was over.
Hayworth stated he was glad Barack Obama won the presidential election over McCain. If he hadn’t sealed his fate before, he did it then. This is not a defense of McCain, but if Hayworth says things like that, I fail to see what benefit it would be have Hayworth in his place.
Little "citizen" Deakin just barely saved, at least temporily, his home from foreclosure, failed to file his July report to the FEC on time (four days late)and who is reported to have business problems.
I'll take "loser" JD who if part of the establishment, would be part of the CONSERVATIVE establishment. JD's conservative rating while serving in the House as our Rep. was 97.6....not a loser in my book!He definitely wouldn't be part of the McCain/Graham RINO establishment.
We needed someone with name recognition to go up against McCain and we needed a good conservative! For too many years we here in AZ have had NO ONE running against McCain. He has had the Senate seat sewed up tighter than a tic on a dog.
McCain has spent 20 million trashing JD 24/7 and that tells me JD is no loser! JD has held McCain's feet to the fire during this campaign and McCain has been flip-flopping helter-skelter trying to get to the right of JD on the illegal issue (well the secure border issue anyway, as McCain STILL wants to legalize the multi-millions here).
You can have someone with no "establishment" background like little Jimmy Deakin, but I'll stick with a known 97.6 conservative-rated JD!
In the case of traitors like McLame, I whole heatedly support Conservatives withholding their votes for that office on election day.If that’s what it takes to get him out of office then so be it.We will make up the loss in other states and as long as there`s stalemate in the Senate then its all on hold till 2012 when, with valuable time to organize, we`ll be stronger in regards to the traitorous leftist wanna-be wing of the GOP and their Rat allies.
It’s very disappointing that the Republican Party keeps on nominating people like John McCain and his buddy Lindsey Graham. They are marginally better than Obama-loving Rats, but not by much. You would think the voters of Arizona and South Carolina would know enough to do better, but evidently not.
“It will be difficult, but not impossible, for McC to go back to being the traitor.”
Unfortunately, not difficult at all for him. This is his last six year term before retirement. Why would / should he care about conservative causes after the election? He will become a full bore Lib because there will be no consequences he cares about.
PLEASE Arizona, vote for McPain’s overdue retirement this Tuesday. We must eject all RINOs.
If you buy that you're just the type McCain likes, fall for anything anyone tell you.
You might want to start thinking for yourself while we still have a country.
Sarah Palin srewed Conservatives by backing McCain when she should have stayed out of the race. However, some good came of it, that act will haunt her forever. Presidental material? Hardly.
Isn’t Sarah McPalin also doing John’s bidding?
It doesn’t help that FoxNews and Greta Van Sustern have given him FREE political advertising—Greta has him on so often, she needs to change the name of her show to “The John McCain Show.”
For at least the past 15 years.
I agree. This is an extreme case, where extreme measures are necessary.
“His campaign has spent about $20 million, compared with Hayworth’s roughly $2.5 million.”
Of course the incumbent advantage is always gigantic thanks to the economic value of the power of Federal Politicians. The funny thing is if Hayworth could just get into congress he too would have such an advantage over any challenger.
Congress has been very successful sense the “new deal” in amassing to themselves the kind of power necessary to help them secure their own hold on power. So successful that rarely more then 10% of them ever loose reelection.
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