Buried in McCain/Feingold was a special exemption for Indian tribes, who just happen to line McCain’s pockets.
Mc/Feingold was never about campaign finance reform. It was about getting what McCain thought he needed.
The McCain-Feingold Indian Giving Loophole
by Michelle Malkin (April 11, 2001)
[snip] deep-pocketed special interest group remains curiously silent amid the furor over campaign finance “reform”: Indian tribes. Why?
You might think tribal leaders would be swarming Capitol Hill, joining other business groups and trade associations that are rightly worried about the McCain-Feingold bill’s deleterious effect on their ability to participate in the political process. Under McCain-Feingold, so-called “soft money” donations (which are currently unregulated and unlimited) would be banned. That would presumably be a big blow to Indian tribes, particularly those who run casinos, whose soft-money giving has exploded in the last few years.
Final tallies are not in yet, but analysts say the top individual recipient of Indian gaming money during election 2000 was none other than anti-soft money crusader Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate Committee of Indian Affairs.
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Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
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