McCain’s Land Swap Deja Vu
Latest Allegations Are Not McCain's First Land Swap Controversy
Republican John McCain’s controversial 2005 land swap deal, reported today by The Washington Post, is eerily reminiscent of a similar situation reported by the Center for Public Integrity in its book The Buying of the President 2000.
— David Kensinger, political consultant and former chief of staff for Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)
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Tova Andrea Wang is the vice president for research at Common Cause. Prior, she was a democracy fellow at the Century Foundation, where she led an election reform working group. Before that, Wang worked for the National Commission on Federal Election Reform and for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
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Not Nobody, Not Nohow
Cindy McCain, wife of Republican John McCain, says she will not release her tax returns, even if she becomes first lady, The Associated Press reports. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama filed jointly with their spouses and have both released those returns; McCain has released only his own filings.
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Sam Stein of The Huffington Post quotes the Center’s Josh Israel in a story about Democrat Barack Obama’s consideration of a voluntary cap on contributions.
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