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An investigative author says George Soros used Sen. John McCain to push for limits on issue advertising by grass-roots groups because he was upset over the cataclysmic failure of Hillarycare, the all-encompassing government health-care program proposed during Bill Clinton’s first term as president.

The author, Richard Poe, whose earlier publications include Hillary’s Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists, told WND that Soros later funded the senator’s Reform Institute because of their work together on the McCain-Feingold Act.

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According to the author, Soros devised McCain-Feingold in 1994 in response to the failure of Hillarycare, the universal health-care program Hillary Clinton championed.

Hillary, Soros and other Democrats blamed the defeat of Hillarycare on television advertising and, as a result, Soros resolved to choke off access to the TV airwaves to those opponents, Poe told WND.

in their book, “The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party,” co-authors David Horowitz and Poe trace Soros’ determination to push for campaign finance reform back to a speech Soros gave at Columbia University’s school of medicine on Nov. 30, 1994.

In their book, Horowitz and Poe argued that Soros had a “covert purpose,” both in supporting Hillarycare and in funding the Project on Death in America, namely, “to save money by rationing health care.”

Health-care rationing was the essence of Hillary’s health plan in 1994, just as it is today, Poe said, when Hillary now promises to slash medical spending in America by $120 billion per year.

Poe told WND that Soros’ plan came to fruition with his funding of Arianna Huffington’s “Shadow Conventions,” which were designed to be held at the same time and in the same cities as the Republican and Democratic national nominating conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 2000.

Sen. Russ Feingold was the keynote speaker at the Los Angeles Shadow Convention during the Democratic Party’s national nominating convention, while John McCain gave the keynote speech in Philadelphia during the Republican Party’s national nominating convention.

An archived transcript from CNN shows McCain delivered the keynote address for Huffington’s Shadow Convention on July 30, 2000, two days before he addressed the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

In their book “The Shadow Party,” Horowitz and Poe document what they call “Pewgate,” a successful effort by Soros’ Open Society Institute to get Pew Charitable Trusts to lead a group of foundations to contribute $140 million to promote campaign finance reform from 1994 to 2004.

“Without funding from George Soros’ Open Society Institute and other Pewgate foundations, the Shadow Conventions could not and would not have occurred, any more than McCain-Feingold could eventually have passed into law,” wrote Horowitz and Poe.

The Reform Institute opened its doors in July 2001, with John McCain listed as chairman on the organization’s homepage and Arianna Huffington listed as a member of the Advisory Committee.

“McCain’s Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues received generous funding from several Pewgate foundations, including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. Revocable Trust, and George Soros’ Open Society Institute,” wrote Horowitz and Poe in “The Shadow Party.”

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