-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Rich Liberals Hedge with Bets on McCain NewsMax.com January 27, 2000 Republican John McCain is talking campaign reform while walking with Wall Street moguls and Hollywood liberals who are backing his Democratic rivals for the presidency. Also, the Arizona senator has for years been accepting major contributions from the gambling industry, whose interests he supports in Congress. Yet the mainstream news media have been characterizing McCain as the champion of reforming campaign funding to eliminate just such influence. And McCain is putting most of his campaign chips on the issue of campaign reform in next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, which he sees as his best chance to derail the candidacy of Texas Gov. George W. Bush. In a Thursday story, the Washington Times documents those seemingly inconsistent contributions to McCain the reformer. It concludes that well-heeled liberals contributing heavily to their philosophical favorites – the two Democratic contenders, Vice President Al Gore and New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley – are obviously hedging their bets by giving money simultaneously to McCain but not to any of his GOP rivals. Why? Is it because they fear either Bradley or Gore can be defeated by a Republican candidate in November and they don't want to be left without White House influence? If so, does that mean they think McCain is the most-likely GOP nominee. Do they want McCain to have the GOP nomination because they see him as the weakest candidate against either Gore or Bradley. Or is it because they see in McCain a Republican candidate whose ideology comes closest to the liberal dogma of their ultimate favorites, Gore and Bradley? Whatever their reasons, or emotions, McCain's acceptance of such contributions doesn't appear compatible with his crusade to abolish heavy-money influence on the political process. His campaign spokesman, Howard Opinsky, said this only illustrates McCain's "broad appeal among conservative Democrats and independents." "That's why the leadership of the White House and Democratic Party fears our candidacy the worst," Opinsky said. "Like Ronald Reagan used to say, people contribute to our campaign because they believe in John McCain's message, but Sen. McCain doesn't necessarily support everything that his contributors do." The Times article looks closely at those tea leaves, which are certain to be a factor in the critical New Hampshire primary among Bush, McCain, Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer: • McCain has raised more than $500,000 in New York City, about a fifth of it from traditional Democratic sources. For example, McCain is the only GOP contender to receive maximum-limit contributions from top executives of the Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co. who also gave the $1,000 limit to Gore, Bradley or both. David A. Dechman, Goldman Sach's managing director in New York, is another Democratic contributor to McCain. • In Hollywood and related Los Angeles entertainment communities, McCain has raised more than $250,000, more than a third of it from well-known liberal Democratic supporters. Among them are such familiar liberal-cause backers as Lew Wasserman of Universal Studios and the wife of producer Norman Lear, founder of the liberal group People for the American Way. They are giving as well to Bradley, Gore and the Democratic Party. Two other big McCain contributors, Haim and Cheryl Saban of Saban Entertainment, also Gore backers, gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. • In the past seven years, McCain has accepted more than $100,000 from gambling interests. Among McCain's top-limit contributors are billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, owner of the MGM Grand and four other casinos in Reno, Nevada, and at least 38 Las Vegas gambling tycoons and their wives, according to Federal Election Commission reports. In his book "The Buying of the President 2000," Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity cites McCain's relationship with the Las Vegas gambling industry. Lewis writes McCain battled in the Senate for tax breaks and other government concessions to gambling interests in Nevada. Noting the $100,000 McCain received from gambling interests since 1993, Lewis says that "he's returned the financial favors in ways big and small." • Wednesday, Democrats helped McCain get on the GOP primary ballot in New York state, where Bush forces were threatening to keep him off by challenging the validity of McCain petitions in congressional districts. The two Republicans on the Board of Elections voted to uphold the challenges. 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