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[Doug]

McCain Taps Cash He Sought To Limit

By John Solomon
Washington Post

Just about a year and a half ago, Sen. John McCain went to court to try to curtail the influence of a group to which A. Jerrold Perenchio gave $9 million, saying it was trying to "evade and violate" new campaign laws with voter ads ahead of the midterm elections.

As McCain launches his own presidential campaign, however, he is counting on Perenchio, the founder of the Univision Spanish-language media empire, to raise millions of dollars as co-chairman of the Arizona Republican's national finance committee.

In his early efforts to secure the support of the Republican establishment he has frequently bucked, McCain has embraced some of the same political-money figures, forces and tactics he pilloried during a 15-year crusade to reduce the influence of big donors, fundraisers and lobbyists in elections.

Big Givers
Many of the top fundraisers that have signed up for John McCain's presidential campaign have deep ties to the "soft-money" donations to political parties and 527 nonprofit political groups that McCain has fought to end.

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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

I gave up on Colin Powell when he accepted a post in W's administration. I gave up on McCain when he voted for the Military Commissions Act.