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McCain Backers Finding Ways Around Law He Sponsored

GOP governors fund is major finance loophole

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 3, 2008 2:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – Desperate to keep up with Barack Obama's powerful fundraising apparatus, John McCain’s allies have found ways of skirting the very campaign finance laws the Arizona senator helped write, the Wall Street Journal reports. Republican strategists are pushing donations toward a fund used to elect... Read full story »

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