Progressive Democrat Issue 114: MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY SLAMS JOHN McCAIN

The Michigan Democratic Party is ALSO finding McCain far from straight talking and they compile a whole slew of flip-flops (or are they lies) told by John McCain:

McCain Abandons Campaign Finance Reform for Big Money in Michigan


Doubletalk express arrives in Grand Rapids, Detroit for big fundraisers

LANSING- Today Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer pointed out the hypocrisy of Republican Senator John McCain’s (R-Arizona) Presidential campaign as McCain holds fundraisers in Grand Rapids and Detroit. McCain’s fundraising trip comes just weeks after the Washington Post exposed McCain’s abandonment of campaign finance reform, McCain’s top issue in the 2000 presidential election and his latest term in the Senate.

“McCain has abandoned his principles for his win-at-any-cost Presidential campaign,” Brewer said. “McCain’s arrival in Michigan to raise money from big Republican donors is in direct contradiction to his campaign finance reform crusade. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Grand Rapids fundraiser is being held on the DeVos family yacht.”

The Washington Post’s February 11, 2007 expose demonstrates McCain’s flip-flop on campaign finance reform:

McCain Then: "long supported" public financing and spending limits on campaigns.

McCain Now: McCain's campaign "is still studying whether to forgo the public financing and spending limits" and have said that he "will not be handicapped by restrictions his competitors will not face in 2008."

McCain Then: McCain "relentlessly argued that six- and seven-figure 'soft money' checks that corporations, wealthy individuals and unions were giving to political parties to influence elections were corrupting American politics."

McCain Now: "McCain the candidate has enlisted some of the same GOP fundraising giants who created and flourished in the soft-money system, including Bush's fundraising 'Pioneers' and 'Rangers,' who earned their designations by raising at least $100,000 or $200,000 for his campaigns.”

McCain Then: McCain "proposed legislation requiring so-called grass-roots groups that organize average citizens into lobbying forces to disclose their financial backers."

McCain Now: "But McCain the candidate switched positions and last month voted against that disclosure requirement after influential GOP groups such as Focus on the Family and National Right to Life strongly opposed the idea. McCain also hired as his campaign manager one of the grass-roots-lobbying industry's key consultants, Bush strategist Terry Nelson."

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