Posted on 03/10/2005 3:51:21 PM PST by Alexander Nevsky
Senator John McCain's Reform Institute has suffered some bad press recently due to its involvement in an influence-peddling scandal with Cablevision. As usual, however, mainstream media have failed to go to the root of the matter.
Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain's Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called "campaign finance reform" movement – a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights.
Now here's the kicker. The list of donors published on the Reform Institute's Web site reads like a veritable Who's Who of radical, leftwing foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund and George Soros' Open Society Institute. (hat tip, Winfield Myers)
Not surprisingly, in view of the above associations, Arianna Huffington serves on the Reform Institute's Advisory Board. Huffington has long acted as a front for George Soros' "campaign finance reform" efforts. In 2000, she organized the so-called Shadow Conventions which provided John McCain with a bully pulpit to stump for his now-infamous McCain-Feingold Act. George Soros shouldered about one third of the cost of the Shadow Conventions.
Bump.
BTW, Richard Poe's book "Hillary's Secret War" for which Jim Robinson wrote the foreward, is well worth reading.
Ok Arizonans, when are you going to get rid of him.
LOL...
Looks like John's campaign finance reform has paid off.
Why do I feel like I am going to puke every time McCain's name is in the headlines.
I am still saying it will be HILL-0-REE and John McCain this next election.
It's a sucker's bet,it's against my religion to bet,but I'd LOVED to bet you on this one...it's a sure thing for me to bet against you! :-)
Now THAT'S a sure bet!
Here is Mississippi I was a Chief of Police (before retirement) and I had a mayor once tell me the true art of being a good politician was to be able to talk on any subject for an hour and never say anything.
On the same ticket?
Because I'll tell you, I've seen McCain in action during the debates in 2000 and he's not stable enough to be on a ticket by himself.
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