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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-08 03:25 PM
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McCain '93:"The use of campaign funds for items..strictly personal reasons..erodes public confidence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27320899/

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Fifteen years ago, McCain himself complained that restrictions on political contributions for personal use at that time were too broad and he wrote an amendment to tighten the law.

"The use of campaign funds for items which most Americans would consider to be strictly personal reasons, in my view, erodes public confidence and erodes it significantly," he said on the Senate floor in May 1993.



http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Vote2008/story?id=6089060&page=1


The Republican National Committee "appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
(AP Photos)

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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-08 03:27 PM
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1. Lets see, half an educational planetarium projector or a shopping spree for a corrupt Governor?
:shrug:
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