Did McCain Presidential Campaign Violate Finance Laws with Southeast Asia Trip?
A review of expenditures by the John McCain presidential campaign reveals several odd expenses that raise important questions about the candidate’s efforts to bill himself as a populist and reformer – and point to possible Federal Election Campaign Act violations. In July, the very month in which the odd expenses show up on McCain’s financial disclosure report to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), McCain rolled out a new campaign slogan: “Reform – Prosperity – Peace.” The Wall Street Journal reported at the time “his new campaign ad is a biographical piece that stresses his campaign finance reform history.” However, despite several phone calls and e-mail queries to the McCain campaign headquarters by Narco News over the past couple weeks, and promises by his staffers that a response would be provided, no one from the McCain camp, to date, has offered an explanation for the following campaign expenditures registered on July 1 and 2 of this year, as reported to the FEC (link here). A
