Legal Commentary

Bloggers File Fundraising Complaint Against John McCain

By Jeralyn

Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake filed a fundraising complaint against John McCain yesterday with the FEC.

Yesterday, on behalf of a large number of progressive bloggers and activists, Jane went to the FEC and filed an official complaint against John McCain's alleged campaign finance violations. We've been asking a lot of questions about this, and the answers have been less than forthcoming. So, instead of just sitting here and stewing about yet another GOP ethical problem, we decided to put our action where our concerns were.

....As Markos of DailyKos pointed out in joining the complaint, “John McCain has officially blown past campaign spending limits mandated by his original acceptance of public campaign funding. While he has signaled his intent to withdraw from such financing, that has been hindered by the fact that he used the promise of public funding to secure a campaign loan.” Guess the campaign finance laws only apply when they aren't inconvenient for McCain's ambitions.

McCain will be fundraising in Denver tomorrow. [More...]

Progress Now and other local activists held a press conference today about his fundraising:

Organizations joined together today for a press conference in advance of Senator John McCain's upcoming fundraiser Thursday at the Petroleum Club in Denver. The groups unveiled an eight foot golden oil rig with a sign "Is McCain for Sale?" and called on McCain to justify his rhetoric about standing "for the American people" by immediately returning all oil PAC money.

"We call on McCain to end his hypocrisy and return all oil PAC money immediately," stated Michael Huttner, Executive Director of ProgressNowAction, with over 350,000 online members is Colorado's largest progressive online organization.

Check out their fact page on John "McBush" McCain.

If you'd like to be a signatory on the bloggers' complaint, here's how, from Christy:

You can join in, too -- sign your name to the complaint here. At that link, you'll find a copy of the FEC filing and a list of signatories thus far. And help us get the word out on the need for McCain to be held accountable for any violations of the law that has his own name on it....and any other laws of which he may be in violation.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).