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McCain Camp Faces Mandatory FEC Audit
Talk about rubbing salt in the wound.
Now that Sen. John McCain has officially lost the presidency, Politico reminds him that he still has an audit to look forward to.
Palin’s Improv Comedy
TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the many times Palin strays from the prepared, teleprompted remarks. For more on Palin’s deviation from the McCain campaign’s plans, in speeches and elsewhere, see Ana Marie’s earlier post here.
BREAKING: McCain Worker Fabricated Attack Story; Race Over?
KDKA of Pittsburgh reports that according to local police, the McCain worker who claimed to have been attacked for her political convictions just confessed to making up the story.
Yesterday, FOX News Vice President John Moody wrote: “If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Sen. McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked [...]
McCain Chief-of-Staff Lobbied for Freddie Mac
This is really getting ridiculous — but, then again, not altogether surprising.
Politico: McCain to Abandon Michigan
At the very moment that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was hosting a McCain campaign conference call with reporters to hype Sen. John McCain’s chances for flipping Michigan from blue to red in November, Politico’s Jonathan Martin was readying this report:
John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a [...]
McCain Adviser Still Officer At Lobby Firm
In the embarrassment that just won’t go away, Newsweek reports that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis — despite numerous comments to the contrary — remains an officer at the lobbying firm that bears his name, Davis Manafort.
McCain Adviser vs. New York Times
McCain senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt had his response ready to go when reporters inevitably questioned campaign adviser Rick Davis’ $35,000 per month former position as the president of an organization set up by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to stave off increased federal regulation, as reported today by The New York Times.
Without [...]
Palin on Running Wasilla: “It’s Not Rocket Science”
WASILLA, Alaska– I’m here at the Mat-Su Frontiersman’s offices flipping through their print archives. I was curious about what then-Mayor Sarah Palin said at the time about giving her top managers a loyalty test and eventually firing her chief of police.
I’m reading an article from October 1996, in which a reporter named Laura Mitchell Harris [...]
Live Updates from Wasilla
Laura McGann is twittering live from a press conference with Sarah Palin’s successor as mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller. First, a little background on Keller: when Palin was completing her term as mayor in 2002, she backed Keller to replace her over her husband’s stepmother, Faye Palin, who supports abortion rights. Keller’s term [...]
