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  • Meghan McCain admits to Romney 'obsession' in 2008 campaign memoir

    08/31/2010 12:24:56 PM PDT · by speciallybland · 56 replies
    The Boston Globe ^ | 08/31/2010 | Sasha Issenberg
    WASHINGTON -- On the day her father won the New Hampshire primary in 2008, Meghan McCain feared she would be arrested for removing Mitt Romney campaign signs from a Nashua street corner. "Stealing campaign signs is technically illegal, but I never thought anyone would enforce this. Nor did I expect we'd get caught," McCain confesses in her memoir, "Dirty Sexy Politics," which is released today. McCain writes that she "had gotten pretty sick" of seeing Romney's signs, particularly a cluster she and friends suspected had been strategically placed outside the McCain campaign's hotel. After stashing several of them in a...
  • McCain: Immigration reform unlikely in 2010 (but he says he will still push for amnesty)

    01/21/2010 7:58:39 PM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 154 replies · 3,305+ views
    The Packer ^ | 2010-01-21
    While he remains committed to comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. John McCain doesn’t have a positive outlook on its passage this year. Leadership on the immigration issue is required by President Barack Obama before Congress can act, McCain recently told Western Growers officials, but that’s unlikely in an election year. McCain told Western Growers said it will likely be impossible to pass AgJOBS as a stand-alone bill in 2010. “He believes that it will take passage of comprehensive (reform) in order to get AgJOBS,” said Tom Nassif, Western Growers president, who was in the group that met McCain, R-Ariz., on Jan....