McCain Says Adelson Contributions Are ‘Foreign Money’
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US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson.
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The former GOP presidential candidate, himself a devout campaign finance reformer, is accusing the current GOP candidate of accepting foreign money in exchange for influence over U.S. policy. The plot thickens more than a little when the agent of influence is a Jewish billionaire and the foreign power in question is the State of Israel.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., asserted that the involvement of anonymous donors and super PACs in American elections will lead to corruption, PBS reported.
McCain alleged specifically that money from outside the country may be helping one PAC: billionaire contributor Sheldon Adelson, owner of casinos in the United States, Macau and Singapore, has pledged $100 million to Republican interests this election cycle.
“Maybe in a roundabout way, foreign money is coming into an American campaign,” McCain told Judy Woodruff on Thursday.
The 2008 Republican presidential nominee has been a critic of the Supreme Court decisions that paved the way for super PACs.
McCain and former senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) were the chief sponsors of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, known as the McCain–Feingold Act, which regulates the financing of political campaigns.
According to PoliPundit.com, the active ingredient in McCain’s borderline xenophobic objections, as well as in Adelson’s move to bear hug Romney into submission, is Israel.
On a trip to Las Vegas late last month, Romney and Adelson had a private meeting, according to that website, after which Adelson attended Romney’s dessert fundraiser for those who contributed $50,000 or more.
People close to Adelson said that he wants to be certain about Romney’s positions on support for Israel. Adelson has publicly criticized President Barack Obama’s support of Israel as too weak.
Woodruff also asked McCain about the comparisons between the president’s “doing fine” gaffe and what McCain said about the fundamentals of the economy during his 2008 run as the Republican nominee. Specifically, she probed his feelings on the striking similarity between the attack ad the Romney campaign issued on Thursday, and Team Obama’s ad that many have said was McCain’s fatal blow.
“We’re in the midst of a fiscal meltdown. When I said, look we’re in a terrible fiscal crisis but the fundamentals of our economy are strong,” McCain said. “So I think there is a difference between the two.”
tell a friendAbout the Author: JewishPress.com Senior Internet Editor Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published two fun books: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.
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McCain is right. And this is one reason why the horrible Citizens United decision needs to be reversed.
I had expected that the first foreign business to take advantage of the Citizens United atrocity would have been the Venezuelan national oil company, controlled by the evil anti-Semite Chavez. It owns the Citgo chain in the US. But Chavez is apparently near death from cancer and may no longer be calling shots. It is a chilul HaShem that a Jewish billionaire is using revenue from foreign gambling businesses — businesses that Jews aren't even supposed to be engaged in — to influence the US election. Adelson is no patriot — he has publicly expressed regret that he served in the US military.
Mcain is characterizing a US citizens money (when that citizen happens to be Jewish) as 'foreign money'. I think that is a dog whistle to anti-Semites. Bill Gates made billions on overseas sales of Windows. If he donated to a campaign, would you call that 'foreign money'? Would McCain?
It is entree for China into controlling American affairs as the money comes from Adelson's China based operation in Macao.
McCain is NO anti-Semite!
And the Macao property is owned by a foreign corporation.
wondering if anyone is going to tag McCain as an anti-Semite.