McCain's Ethics: From Keating Five to Iseman


	McCain's Ethics: From Keating Five to Iseman

blueridge

2-22-2008 5:18 AM

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McCain has a pattern of unethical operations on behalf of favored lobbyists while feigning to be a policeman for good government against corruption. This is why he is entirely untrustworthy and why his public image as a reputable maverick is without merit.

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The <I>New York Times </I>used the anecdote about Iseman as entree into a recitation of McCain's involvement in the "Keating Five" scandal and other previously reported controversies. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0222mccain-reacts0222.html"><DIV>
The Keating Five uproar of the late 1980s had to do with whether McCain and four other senators, including then-Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., had tried to pressure federal savings-andloan regulators in behalf of political benefactor Charles Keating Jr., who later was convicted of fraud. The Senate Ethics Committee ultimately concluded that McCain showed "poor judgment" in the matter.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0222mccain-reacts0222.html"><DIV>
McCain has said the hard lessons learned from the Keating fiasco helped him become the good-government crusader that emerged in the 1990s and led to enactment of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law of 2002. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0222mccain-reacts0222.html"><DIV>
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