McCain, John S AZ R $21,550 $0 $21,550

Why are you keeping this a secret?

Rob,
How many Freddie and Fannie execs are working for McCain?
watashiwa on September 16, 2008 at 10:05 am

NONE

But…when you look at Obama’s economic advisers, the guys he has counted on from day one and who have raised him a ton — and I mean a ton — of money: Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, you realize that both of them are waist to neck deep in the mortgage scandal.

Both Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama.

Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)

All those “D”s will keep it from becoming an election item in the MSM

mccains biggest donor is the PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families of Merrill Lynch.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00006424.

should we make negative associations from that also?

Isn’t it a bit disturbing that the man who could be our next President took tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of American government?

Seems a bit unethical if you ask me.

Isn’t it a bit disturbing that the man who could be our next President took tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of American government?

You mean NOBAMA?

Isn’t it a bit disturbing that the man who could be our next President took tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of American government?

In John McCain’s America, any politician who accepts a large contribution or gift from a donor, and then takes steps consistent with the donor’s interests — even though there is no legal quid pro quo — is corrupt.

Well, then, by his own standard, McCain is corrupt.

McCain was one of the so-called “Keating Five” senators.

He was investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics in 1991 regarding the acceptance of favors from Lincoln Savings & Loan Association (Lincoln) and its owner, Charles H. Keating, Jr.

Simply put, the issue was whether McCain and the other senators used their official positions to attempt to pressure Federal Home Loan Bank Board officials to go easy on the troubled institution. Eventually Lincoln went bust, costing depositors and taxpayers millions.

In its final report (November 20, 1991), here is what the Senate Select Committee on Ethics concluded about McCain’s conduct:

“Mr. Keating, his associates, and his friends contributed $56,000 for Senator McCain’s two House races in 1982 and 1984, and $54,000 for his 1986 Senate race.