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Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers.

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"A town official opposed to the swap said other Yavapai Ranch land sold nine years ago for about $2,000 per acre, while some of the prime commercial land near a parcel that the developers will get has brought as much as $120,000 per acre."

Business as usual. The guy who invested in McCain got a pretty good return for his money.

Oh, and a bit more about Mr. Straight Talk:

A Developer, His Deals and His Ties to McCain
query.nytimes.com

Well, this is absolutely shocking!

Shocking I say!

A well connected, wealthy businessman getting a favor from an entrenched politician!

Shocking!

I'm not surprised that it involves a Republican! All Republicans are sinister by definition!

Vote Osamagasm! We know he's never had questionable dealings with rich real estate developers!

And before anyone starts, my sarcasm is not "He did it too!" Just trying to make the point this ius politics as usual and has been going on for hundreds of years.

Now, let's see you Faux Indignation of The Day

Sure crooked deals have been going on forever Vernon, but generally when we discover someone is guilty of them we don't elect them to the Senate, much less the presidency. When Clinton was involved in a land deal the Rethugs initiated a 70 million dollar investigation, can't wait for McBush to get the same treatment.

If his name isn't Rezko, we don't want to hear about it.

The Right

It dosen't matter, the big 0 will get elected.

Not the first public lands McBush has sold to his buddies. pay off probably went through some trollop's bank account, cause the McBush's ain't never gonna talk about it.

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We need to change alright. Screw it...I think I'll vote for RP!

We need to change alright. Screw it...I think I'll vote for RP!

I had to vote on a republican balot in NC to support Walter Jones, but for shits and giggles I voted for Paul an the top ticket. Me and about a 150 other people in my county. 8% of the rep vote. Huckabee came in second.

Who the Fuck is anyone voting for?


How sad.

Remember the Keating Five. What a Maverik.

And before anyone starts, my sarcasm is not "He did it too!" Just trying to make the point this ius politics as usual and has been going on for hundreds of years.

Now, let's see you Faux Indignation of The Day

Posted by vernon at 2008-05-09 09:06 AM | Reply | Flag:

After the shitstorm you and fellow repubs made regarding Obama & Rezko, you have to know what's coming. Just stand there and take it. It'll be over rather soon as the right-leaning MSM won't drag this out for weeks like Obama/Rezko, if they even touch it at all.

Ker-plunk. Another piece of shit hits the fan. Goodbye, ols man McSame.

AND OBAMA DID LAND DEAL WITH TONY REZKO THAT BENEFITED HIMSELF!!!!

Lets go dems you got to do better than that.

Bee Swell

Even if the Rezko deal was everything Republicans said it was, it's still not the same as selling underpriced Public Lands in exchange for campaign money. The land belongs to the American people, anyone who gives it away for under-the-table contributions is violating the public trust.

I couldn't say this better.

"What Sen. McCain is much more likely to do as president is become America's worst nightmare by continuing the failed policies of the Bush administration. Here is a man who has publicly admitted that he knows nothing about economics and who confuses Sunnis and Shi'ites. What are the two major problems facing America? Economic troubles and a war in the Middle East involving Shi'ites and Sunnis. Sen. McCain finished near the bottom of his class at Annapolis and launched his political career by dumping the wife who stood by him during his imprisonment and marrying big money. Excuse me if I'm not overwhelmed with his resume."
www.antiwar.com

Rezko bought an empty lot next to a house Obama wanted to buy because the vendor wanted to sell the house and lot together and Obama couldn't afford it.

McCain used his power to push a deal that basically gives public wealth (in the form of trading good federally owned real estate for bad) to one of his top campaign fundraisers.

I always admired McCain for his stance against pork barrel politics, but here he is giving public pork to one of his largest contributers. That's very likely illegal conduct on the part of McCain and should be investigated.

John McCain was against pork barrels before he was for pork barrels.

Though since this didn't involve using public funds on public projects, this isn't really a pork barrel deal, just a little corruption and looting of the public purse.

As opposed to Harry Reid to did a land deal that benefitted himself.
www.freerepublic.com

This is not limited to only Republicans, nor Presidential canidates. Someone let the Clintons make money on the commodity market and didn't say a thing. Someone didn't stop the lawmakers from taking from others. Everyone turns away when it it is time for accountability or says it is the other party that is responsible or corrupt. Between the pork taking our money and the programs that don't accomplish anything but keep bureaucrats in jobs, the government hasn't done anything productive for us. Social Security needs to be fixed but no one wants to touch it or accept anyone else's ideas. Both parties need to work together to the benefit of the people not themselves. I am being naive I know because they won't listen to us because no on complains in a group loud enough.

ok, I'll cut McCain a break on this as soon as an independent prosecutor does a $40,000,000 investigation into this and has carte blanche to investigate anything else in his life.

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