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McCain Brought Home the Bacon With 1989 Earmark

Sen. John McCain, as everyone knows, loves to say that he has never once, in his whole career, requested nor received a single earmark or pork-barrel project for his home state of Arizona.
Politifact has already released a report taking issue with the claim. But the McCain campaign disputes that any example cited meet the campaign’s [...]


As a First-Term Senator, McCain Railed Against His Own Pork

On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain frequently decries earmarks and pork-barrel legislation, proudly bragging that he has never requested a single earmark for his home state of Arizona. However, a news article and a scathing editorial from The Arizona Republic during his first-term as the state’s junior senator reveal that McCain did, in fact, [...]