Senator John McCain Passes The Buck On Polygamy
Senator John McCain Cincinnati Pretender
To be fair, while the FLDS, America's largest
polygamy cult, is incorporated in Utah --
members live and vote on either side of the
Utah-Arizona border. That means media darling
John McCain's (R--AZ) stance on polygamy is
also an issue Reports Reconfirm Hatch Said
He Condones Polygamy], particularly because of
McCain's 2008 US presidential aspirations.
McCain twice ducked my requests for comment for
articles on polygamy, first in 2000 for the front page
of the Weekend Financial Times Seven brides for
one brother: Plural marriage is rife in the western
United States, and then for a piece that ran March
2005 both in Scoop and CounterPunch, where I noted:
"Arizona is even less responsive on the Babyland
issue [unmarked children's graves in the FLDS canyonlands].
John McCain (R - AZ), who is incensed about
Iraq POW humiliation, takes campaign contributions
in part from Mohave County where the FLDS is
headquartered on the Arizona side of the border.
McCain failed to comment for my Financial Times October 2000 cover story on polygamy and his assistant press secretary, Crystal Benton, told me last year regarding the Babyland matter that his schedule was "too hectic" for him to make a statement, although she wouldn't want it to be reported that the Senator had "no comment". ADVERTISEMENT
Funny the night before Benton told me
McCain's schedule was too hectic, he appeared
on MSNBC's Hardball promoting his new book
(he's a frequent guest). He's also found time to
host Saturday Night Live."
Finding any other comment on polygamy from
either of the two US senators from Arizona -
both Republicans: John McCain and John Kyl - is an exhausting exercise.
By Suzan Mazur
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00396.htm
www.mccainalert.com
www.mccainalert.com
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I
Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I
Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I
Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I, uh, violate the spirit of said legislation in an attempt to ready myself for another presidential run in 2008
Ryan Sager, who has been a dogged critic of McCain-Feingold, invites us to take a closer look at McCain’s own Reform Institute,a non-profit think tank, that just so happens to reside in ,the same Old Towne office building as McCain’s re-election committee (Friends of John McCain), his PAC (Straight Talk America) and his adviser’s lobbying firm (Davis Manafort & Freedman)., From ,The Horse McCain Rode In On,, in today’s New York Post:
As Sen. John McCain gears up for a prospective presidential run in 2008, he’s trying to put an ugly little incident behind him one that makes him look like a flat-out hypocrite on his signature issue, campaign-finance reform.
If members of the national media are anything more than lapdogs for the war-hero, "maverick" senator, they’ll start asking some tough questions about a bogus little think tank in Alexandria, Va., called the Reform Institute.
According to the inside-the-beltway paper Roll Call,
McCain has stepped down as chairman of the Reform Institute, citing negative publicity from earlier this year when
it was discovered that the Institute was accepting large cash contributions from businesses with interests before
the Senate Commerce Committee.
At the time, McCain was chairman of the Commerce Committee [...]
Read the whole thing, which includes details of an
earlier AP investigation in March.
It’s one thing to co-author legislation that, when all
is said and done, will do more to weaken the First Amendment
than just about any piece of legislation ever signed
into law; it is quite another, however, to insist everyone else’s free speech be regulated while reserving for
yourself special dispensation.
Unless of course maverick means above the law. In which case, carry on, Senator. Fight the good fight. After all,
if anybody knows what’s best for us, it’s the guy
who doesn’t trust us to speak freely.
see more at
http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/18776/
Mccain Alert
Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I
Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I, uh, violate the spirit of said legislation in an attempt to ready myself for another presidential run in 2008
Ryan Sager, who has been a dogged critic of McCain-Feingold, invites us to take a closer look at McCain’s own Reform Institute,a non-profit think tank, that just so happens to reside in ,the same Old Towne office building as McCain’s re-election committee (Friends of John McCain), his PAC (Straight Talk America) and his adviser’s lobbying firm (Davis Manafort & Freedman)., From ,The Horse McCain Rode In On,, in today’s New York Post:
As Sen. John McCain gears up for a prospective presidential run in 2008, he’s trying to put an ugly little incident behind him one that makes him look like a flat-out hypocrite on his signature issue, campaign-finance reform.
If members of the national media are anything more than lapdogs for the war-hero, "maverick" senator, they’ll start asking some tough questions about a bogus little think tank in Alexandria, Va., called the Reform Institute.
According to the inside-the-beltway paper Roll Call,
McCain has stepped down as chairman of the Reform Institute, citing negative publicity from earlier this year when
it was discovered that the Institute was accepting large cash contributions from businesses with interests before
the Senate Commerce Committee.
At the time, McCain was chairman of the Commerce Committee [...]
Read the whole thing, which includes details of an
earlier AP investigation in March.
It’s one thing to co-author legislation that, when all
is said and done, will do more to weaken the First Amendment
than just about any piece of legislation ever signed
into law; it is quite another, however, to insist everyone else’s free speech be regulated while reserving for
yourself special dispensation.
Unless of course maverick means above the law. In which case, carry on, Senator. Fight the good fight. After all,
if anybody knows what’s best for us, it’s the guy
who doesn’t trust us to speak freely.
see more at
http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/18776/
Mccain Alert
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