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“When you have a big, significant businessman like myself, why wouldn’t you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation.”
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yep, why do the people's business when mKKKain could exloit his political position for his friend's financial gain ... the friend, diamond, is now active in mKKKain's campaign
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Mr. Diamond is close to most of Arizona’s Congressional delegation and is candid about his expectations as a fund-raiser. “I want my money back, for Christ’s sake. Do you know how many cocktail parties I have to go to?”
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how do we know the difference between a campaign contribution and a bribe?
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“I have carefully avoided situations that might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office,” he [mKKKain] wrote in his memoir, “Worth the Fighting For” (Random House, 2002).
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another neocon who wants you to believe what he says and ignore what he does
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Mr. McCain has been willing, though, to help sponsor bills authorizing federal land exchanges that Mr. Diamond sought. ... environmentalists and other analysts have also concluded that such trades almost invariably give private developers a profitable bargain at public expense. ...
A study in 2000 by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office cited “inherent difficulties” and “fundamental inefficiencies” in such exchanges and urged Congress to discontinue them. ... said Sandy Bahr, director of the Arizona chapter of the Sierra Club. “It is the public that got shortchanged.” ... In the first deal, Mr. McCain was the sole Senate sponsor of a 1991 law authorizing the Department of the Interior to acquire about 2,000 acres of the ranch, which local environmentalists valued at about $5 million but Mr. Diamond and parks appraisers put at around $30 million.
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so much for the "proper use" of mKKKain's office (see his quote above)
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“Those guys got a sweetheart deal,” said Michael Keenan, whose family bought the housing complex from Mr. Diamond for nearly $30 million two years later. Mr. Diamond acknowledged turning a profit of $20 million.
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$20 million profit on a $30 million transaction ... thanks to mKKKain's intercession. don't we all run across such lucrative deals that return 200% profit
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Mr. Diamond acknowledged that, as court papers show, he tried more than once to enlist Mr. McCain in assisting the city on other matters as the selection process continued. “I don’t mind trying,” he said. For instance, in 2002, Mr. Diamond forwarded to Mr. McCain an article from The Monterey Herald about Seaside’s problems in a water dispute. “As per our conversation today,” he wrote, “I would appreciate it if you would follow up and drop a line to the city manager of Seaside.”
He added in a postscript, “Sorry you can’t make it to the Yankees series,”
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mKKKain insisted he learned his lesson after being found trading on his government position during the keating scandal ... as we have seen during this run for the presidency, the man is a liar
04-22-2008, 12:25 PM
Another Guy McCain Did Favors for
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