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February 11 McCain Questions

Three Questions John McCain Won't Answer Today

Richmond, VA

February 11, 2008

 

 

1.      Considering that McCain has bragged about staying in Iraq for 100 years at the same time he is promising to extend the Bush tax cuts, how does McCain propose paying for both?  Would he repeat the same Bush strategy that has produced $6.3 trillion in debt? 

 

2.      This weekend, John McCain praised Karl Rove as a great political mind and refused to criticize his political tactics despite the fact that Rove has been tied to just about every part of the GOP's culture of corruption in Washington, including the Abramoff scandal, the scandal over the politically motivated firing of nine U.S. Attorneys, and the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity in a time of war.  Is McCain afraid that standing up to Karl Rove will hurt his efforts to cozy up the right wing of his party? 

 

3.      Is McCain concerned that he'll lose support among Hispanics voters in states like Virginia when they realize he turned his back on his own immigration reform plan and pledged to vote against the immigration bill that he wrote and once carried his name?

 

 

Campaign McCain: "I've Always Respected Karl Rove."   "I've always respected Karl Rove as one of the smart great political minds I think in American politics. I've always respected him....It's not so much whether I approve of his tactics or not.  It's that he has a very good, great political mind. Any information or advice and council he can give us, I'd be   glad to have. I don't think anybody denies his talents. So I'd be glad to get any advice   and council. We would obviously decide whether to accept it or not." [CNN, 2/9/08, http://youtube.com/watch?v=nV3ia_aFsOY]

 

  • Rove Took Meetings With Abramoff Clients Who Donated to Friendly Groups.  "Sources tell Newsweek that Abramoff often steered clients' funds to ATR as a way to ease access to the administration. It seems to have worked. A lawyer for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian tribe in Michigan told NEWSWEEK that tribal leaders had 'three or four' meetings at the White House--including one with Bush and another with Rove--after they gave a $25,000 donation to Norquist's group at Abramoff's request."  [Newsweek, 5/2/05]

 

  • Top Rove Aide Accepted Gifts from (Former Boss) Abramoff.  A top aide to White House strategist Karl Rove "resigned after disclosures that she accepted gifts and passed information to now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, becoming the first official in the West Wing to lose a job in the influence-peddling scandal."  Susan Ralston's resignation came a month before the midterm elections, just after "a congressional report showed that Ralston accepted sometimes-pricey tickets to nine sports and entertainment events from Abramoff while she provided him with inside White House information."  Ralston "was Mr. Abramoff's executive assistant before" taking a similar job for Karl Rove at the White House where she was eventually promoted to Special Assistant to the President.  [Chicago Tribune, 10/8/06; Washingtonpost.com, 4/16/07]

 

  • Rove Told Grand Jury He Discussed Plame With Reporters.  "In grand jury appearances and other conversations with federal investigators, Rove has testified that he discussed Wilson's wife briefly with columnist Robert D. Novak and Cooper before she was publicly unmasked in July 2003, according to lawyers in the case. Fitzgerald zeroed in on Rove's contact with Cooper yesterday, according to the source who provided Rove's version of events."  [Washington Post, 4/26/2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR2006042600849.html] 

 

  • Rove At "Epicenter" of U.S. Attorney Scandal.  "New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show that the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than the White House previously acknowledged. ... The e-mails put Rove at the epicenter of the imbroglio and raise questions about Gonzales' explanations of the matter."  [ABCNews.com, 3/15/2007, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2954988&page=1]

 

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