[donna]

You are using a very bad and unreliable source here. She worked for John Conyers, LOL.

CREW
http://www.citizensforethics.org/about/staff
Melanie Sloan, Executive Director

Melanie Sloan serves as CREW’s Executive Director... Prior to starting CREW, she...served as Minority Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, working on criminal justice issues for then-Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI)

[WOBBLY BOB]

I get junkmail from CREW all the time.

I like using their pre-paid envelopes to send donations to Michlle Bachmann. Makes me giggle.

[AuntB]

My, my, what have we here.

McCain’s Law Preserved Loophole for Tribal Contributions
by Amanda B. Carpenter Human Events
01/30/2006

Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, says the campaign finance reform law he sponsored in 2002 intentionally left open a loophole that allows Indian tribes to make campaign contributions to an unlimited number of candidates for federal office.

Before McCain’s law passed, most Americans were allowed to give an aggregate of only $25,000 to party committees and candidates for federal office in any two-year election cycle. Indian tribes were not subject to that cap. McCain’s law lifted the aggregate-contribution cap to $95,000 for ordinary American contributors, but declined to impose any cap at all on Indian tribes.

When I asked McCain last week why this was the case, he said, “Because tribes are ‘sovereign entities.’ They are treated on a government-to-government relationship, and we’re looking at that whole issue.”

I asked, “But it was an intentional thing?” McCain replied, “Oh yeah. … Because they are ‘sovereign nations’ unquote. We sign treaties with them.”

When I pointed out that the U.S. does not allow contributions from foreign governments, McCain said, “No, we don’t. But they’re American citizens. So, it’s a unique kind of a status.”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11961

It’s also quite interesting to note the BIG contributors to McCAin..the same ones Obama gets! Merrill Lynch $
Citigroup Inc
Morgan Stanley
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Goldman Sachs

And the top 5 industries...2nd is LAWYERS, last is ‘conservatives’

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00006424

[Petronski]

Well, I'd forgive Hayworth for a lot of things, but if Conyers doesn't like him...