Senator McCain’s $1300 Lapel Pin

by   |  July 01, 2008

Tickets to a recent fundraising luncheon for Senator John McCain’s campaign went for $1,000 – but for a $2,300 contribution, attendees were promised a campaign lapel pin in addition to their meal. In his latest entry on the Huffington Post, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee says we shouldn’t be surprised by wealthy Republican donors paying $1,300 for lapel pins. What’s really shocking is the failure of the press to cover Sen. McCain’s hypocrisy on campaign finance reform:

In February, he was told by the chairman of the Federal Elections Commission that he could not bow out of the federal financing system during the primaries because he had agreed to participate and had secured a bank loan predicated on his agreement to accept public funds. But once McCain began to win some primaries and the money started to flow in, he went back on his commitment. He and the corporate lobbyists who run his campaign decided to go out and start collecting big bucks from the big spenders who could afford $1,300 lapel pins.

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