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Sunday, January 27, 2008

McCain, Soros And The Reform Institute: Updated and Bumped With Video

Dovetailing with open borders advocate and campaign volunteer advisor Juan Hernandez is who does pay Hernandez, The Reform Institute that McCain used to chair and who Their sugar daddy is, George Soros. Michelle and Captain Ed Morrisey have been covering this latest developement in McCamnesty's bid for presidency. Their donor list reads like a who's who of left wing foundations from Theresa Kerry's Tides Foundation to Soros' OSI.

The Reform Institute is a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group, as Ed Morrissey noted two years ago, “that employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain’s staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.” The Reform Institute received $200,000 in donations from Cablevision…and McCain basically tried to intervene on Cablevision’s behalf by writing a letter to the FCC supporting its regulatory agenda. Morrissey noted at the time: “[T]he Reform Institute helps keep McCain’s staff gainfully employed between campaigns, allowing McCain to do less fundraising while retaining the best of the available talent. For instance, Carl Hulse and Ann Kornblut note that Rick Davis managed McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 before founding Reform Institute. Now its president, he gets over $100,000 a year from RI for “consulting services”. That money allows Davis to remain available for McCain’s future campaigns, and the funding he raises for RI gives him inroads for building support.”

I guess that's how McCamnesty runs a shoestring campaign, Mr. Campaign Finance Reform, yea right, use others to pay your staff so you don't have to. Rick Davis runs his campaign. From Capatain Ed, I urge you to check out the above link.
But the oddities don't end at the donors page for Reform Institute. We've already detailed how McCain's chief political advisor earns a six-figure income from the nonprofit which heavily promotes McCain and the BCRA. As the New York Times noted yesterday, RI provides a back-channel method of keeping his campaign staff employed without McCain having to do any fundraising for his political campaigns -- and avoiding the donation caps that come into play for his donors. And Davis isn't the only beneficiary of this loophole.

Plus McCain says that he would sign McCain/Kennedy amnesty if he is president after saying he would build the g**d*** fence.
Update: The word is getting out as Johnny Mac is asked about Juan "open borders" Hernandez in Florida and spins like a windmill in a hurricane, lying donkey boy. Hot Air has audio and transcript. How could he not know the positions of somebody that works for the same group he and his campaign manager helped found?

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1 comment:

Gayle said...

Exellent post, Goat. We are both on the same page. I just finished posting about the fence along our southern border, and why I don't agree with either President Bush or McCain on this issue.