I don't think this is illegal. In fact, it's common practice for the Dems, so I would hesitate to rub McCain's nose it unless we're going to hold the Dems similarly accountable.
McCain can't feign surprise at these contributions. These groups and many others like them gave directly to his campaigns in the years before he was bitten by the Reform bug (which was actually a Publicity bug, but the bites often cause the same reaction).
You are suppse to do as he says not do what he does.
McCain is also on the board of Christie Whiman's PAC. They are donating cash to moderate republican candidates with the express purpose of defeating conservative members of the congress and senate.
Sen. McKeating...er, McCain's got some splainin' to do...
Don't worry about a donation from a corporation.
What Americans need to be concerned about is how the Reform Institute gets a lot of money from George $oreA$$ via $oreA$$'s money laundering NGOs.
The link below shows this vile relationship between the Reform Institute and the most evil man on earth, George $oreA$$.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Reform%20Institute%20Soros
Thursday, March 10, 2005
John McCain Gets Soros Cash
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.
Posted by Richard Poe @ 6:15:00 PM Eastern Time
Senator Slick Mick {D-Az} has nothing to worry about from the News Cartel giving this legs. Now that a News Cartel outlet has reported one time on this little tidbit concerning his For-me Institute it has been "covered extensively" and they can MoveOn to other matters.
BTTT!
Gee, whodathunkit.