Happy 21st Anniversary to John McCain!
Posted by Matt Ortega on April 2, 2008 at 03:11 PM
John McCain is traveling the country on a biographical tour, but here's one stop his campaign won't celebrate: the Keating Five. (April 2 marks the 21st anniversary of the group's first meeting.)
McCain and four other senators interceded on behalf of Charles Keating Jr., who was embroiled in the savings and loan crisis. McCain has often said the episode helped spur his zeal for government reform.
A campaign finance reform advocacy group also cited the 21st anniversary of the meeting to renew its call for McCain to back comprehensive public financing of campaigns.
"Senator McCain claims to have learned a lesson during the Keating Five scandal in the late 1980s -- that it is important to significantly reduce the impact of money in politics," David Donnelly, national campaigns director for the Public Campaign Action Fund, said in a statement. "But McCain, whose campaign is run by a who's who of big money lobbyists, appears to have forgotten that lesson and has so far refused to make a commitment to fight for real change in how campaigns are financed."
Happy 21st anniversary to John McCain! Four more years and it reaches the "silver" anniversary.
John McCain and special interests: I really think these two kids are going to last.
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