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...state's acting secretary of labor. "Could you do a quick, down-and-dirty memo for me on [the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program] for Mrs. Clinton?" Rendell wants to know. "On your own time," he adds. Of course. The next order of business is a Clinton fund raiser in western Pennsylvania. "I want each of you to come as close to or exceed $100,000 for your guys," he tells Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Allegheny County chief executive Dan Onorato. "If you need me to make any follow-up calls, I will...
...relay local network signals to viewers, an idea promoted by McCain but opposed by the broadcast and cable industries. A major proponent of the bill happened to be a McCain supporter, Charles Ergen, head of the Dish Network. Less than a month after the hearing, Ergen held a fund raiser at his Denver home for McCain, reportedly raising more than $40,000. A few years later, Ergen's company gave more than $50,000 to a nonprofit institute that employed Davis and was chaired by McCain himself. No-holds-barred, indeed...
...self-image of McCain as a saint operating in a sinner's world has been carefully crafted over the years and embraces the contradictions of his job. He is both a vigorous fund raiser - collecting more than $135 million over his career - and the nation's leading G.O.P. campaign-finance reformer. His inner circle includes current and former lobbyists, but he has sponsored bills limiting their influence. He has begged discount private-jet flights from companies seeking his favor but also led an effort to end the discount lending practice. McCain is, in other words, not an easy...
...Problem of Appearance McCain's trouble with influence-peddling dates to 1987, when he found himself ensnared in the Keating Five scandal. He had met with federal regulators on behalf of banker Charles Keating Jr., a wealthy fund raiser and friend who had flown the McCain family on private jets to vacations in the Bahamas. A Senate ethics panel found that McCain had exercised "poor judgment" but had broken no rules. The honor-bound Senator was nonetheless rattled. "Appearance in politics," McCain said years later, "is reality...
...office and Alcalde's firm went further. In December 1999, FCC chairman William Kennard chastised McCain for writing a letter encouraging the resolution to a licensing matter involving Paxson Communications. The letter was written one day after McCain had been flown on a Paxson jet to a fund raiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla., and just weeks before Paxson's owner was scheduled to hold a fund raiser for McCain. The appearance problem was so severe that John Weaver, McCain's political adviser at the time, asked one of Alcalde's lobbyists on the Paxson account...