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McCain linked to influence peddling claim
WND ^ | Feb. 25, 2008 | WND

Posted on 02/26/2008 8:20:14 AM PST by AuntB

Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, has been linked by documents and testimony to another alleged case of what critics are calling influence peddling, this time involving a minority broadcaster in Pittsburgh.

The New York Times last week published a major, controversial expose that insinuated McCain had a romantic relationship with telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman, whose clients had a large stake in decisions made by the Senate Commerce Committeee McCain headed. The report, however, was denied by McCain and widely discredited for lack of evidence.

According to his own testimony, it wasn't until he decided to give $4,000 in personal donations to Sen. John McCain, who at the time was chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, and another $40,000 to a then 30-year-old Iseman, that anything happened.....

McCain has legislated in favor of several other Iseman clients on issues dealing primarily with minority broadcast ownership. Here is the full list of her clients, who have contributed close to $100,000 to his campaigns, gleaned from Senate lobbying disclosure reports she and her firm have filed:

* Hispanic Broadcasting Inc.

* Telemundo Network Group Total Living Network Tulare County, Calif. * Univision Communications[snip]

In addition, Iseman has acquired a number of major Hispanic-owned businesses as clients. McCain sponsored a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill that would grant amnesty to millions of Hispanic immigrants living illegally in the U.S., even though Republicans in his border state of Arizona strenuously opposed the measure.....

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; bimboeruption; fcc; glencairn; immigration; iseman; lobbying; lobbyists; mccain; paxson; univision
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1 posted on 02/26/2008 8:21:02 AM PST by AuntB
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To: AuntB

World Nut Daily living up to it’s reputation?


2 posted on 02/26/2008 8:23:31 AM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: AuntB
The report, however, was denied by McCain and widely discredited for lack of evidence but we'll repeat it here just so you know that the accusations were serious, sort of.
3 posted on 02/26/2008 8:23:46 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: AuntB

This is the usual MSM tactic for Republicans. Death by a thousand cuts, regardless of the veracity of any charges or not.


4 posted on 02/26/2008 8:24:27 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Izzy Dunne

Well, ya know, it’s not the nature of the evidence that counts, it’s the seriousness of the charge. October Surprise, anyone?


5 posted on 02/26/2008 8:28:44 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: AuntB
Beatrice you are so low in your hatred of McCain.

McCain was just trying to get the FCC to vote for a license for a Christian television network, but the Clinton controlled FCC blocked the deal.

The whole story is below, but like it will matter to you Bea, since you are blinded by your one issue.

WQEX deal wins at FCC, loses in the end(McCain, NYT brouhaha)

6 posted on 02/26/2008 8:29:15 AM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: AuntB
If the nominees are McCain and Obama, I am gladly on the side of McCain. Obama needs to be stopped. He will not put his hand over his heat and swear allegiance to our flag and has a problem with wearing a U.S. flag pin on his lapel, yet he wants to command the strongest military in the world when we are fighting a global war on Islamic terrorism. Obama is the choice for Osama Bin Laden. Make no doubt of that. The stakes for living and dying could not be greater. McCain is very flawed in lots of respects, yet he is strong on the WOT. He has my vote.
7 posted on 02/26/2008 8:35:04 AM PST by jrooney (Ron Paul called Reagan a Dramatic Failure and thinks he is smarter than Abe Lincoln.)
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To: AuntB

He’s a Senator! That’s what Senators do...all 100 of them!


8 posted on 02/26/2008 8:36:17 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Dane
since you are blinded by your one issue.

The number one open border pushing amnesty granting poster on the site says some one is blinded by an issue.

ROFLOL

What are you going to do when they deport your little illegal Dane?

9 posted on 02/26/2008 8:40:38 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: org.whodat
What are you going to do when they deport your little illegal Dane?

And what are you going to do when you are proven in bearing false witness?

My guess, probably hang yourself.

10 posted on 02/26/2008 8:43:34 AM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Daveinyork
"October Surprise, anyone?"

Nah, this is nickle, dime stuff the MSM will drop every so often leading up to October. Then they, with the assistance of the CIA's documents will publish on the front page of the NY Times the real bomb - the REAL October Surprise, and it's no ordinary crooked politician deal.

11 posted on 02/26/2008 8:47:43 AM PST by penowa
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To: AuntB; pissant; Just A Nobody
The list at WND also shows Clear Channel:

>>AMFM Inc. (Clear Channel Communications) Arison Family Trust<<

I just find that interesting.

Real Clear Politics, Nielsen Company, Bain Capital Partners and Politics

Clear Channel Communications, Inc. Shareholders Approve Merger with Private Equity Group Co-Led By Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.

Fox News Is Skewing Early GOP Primaries

12 posted on 02/26/2008 8:52:19 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Dane
False witness,

You have jumped from one liberal republican to the other trying to find the one that you think will deliver the best amnesty deal for your little illegal. Everyone here know that.

What's the problem you think the demorats will not deliver for you.

13 posted on 02/26/2008 8:56:21 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Calpernia

I thought John McQueeg was pure as the driven snow.


14 posted on 02/26/2008 8:56:24 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: org.whodat
You have jumped from one liberal republican to the other trying to find the one that you think will deliver the best amnesty deal for your little illegal. EveryoneYou(org.whodat in your paranoid mind) here know that.

Go ahead ranting away org.whodat, I don't get in the way of those who dig themselves a deeper hole.

15 posted on 02/26/2008 9:01:15 AM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: pissant

Would that be snow from Global Warming??

:)


16 posted on 02/26/2008 9:03:12 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Dane

McCain is crooked. Research his Reform Institute. A real crap pile, and a liberal one to boot.


17 posted on 02/26/2008 9:04:18 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Calpernia

No, snow from his snowjobs he’s responsible for on global warming, campaign finance reform, radical environmentalism, amnesty, and ‘human rights’.


18 posted on 02/26/2008 9:05:42 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
McCain is crooked. Research his Reform Institute. A real crap pile, and a liberal one to boot.

Well given your screen name, you proclaim yourself an expert on exceretory functions, altough I thought your expertise was in urine, not crap.

19 posted on 02/26/2008 9:08:12 AM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: pissant
>>>global warming, campaign finance reform, radical environmentalism, amnesty, and ‘human rights’.

That barely scratches the surface.

20 posted on 02/26/2008 9:09:32 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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