The Center for Public Integrity

McCain’s Friends

Revelations About John McCain’s Advisers’ Ties to Shady Regimes Were Noted by the Center in 1992

While Republican John McCain has severed ties with two campaign advisers who lobbied for the military junta in Myanmar, connections between his staffers and oppressive foreign regimes still exist and date back more than a decade. 

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“The magnitude of the money is not only obscene, but it is so much out of proportion from what we went through, as bad as it was in our times. ”
— Former Vice President Walter Mondale, 1984 Democratic presidential nominee
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Buying of the President 2004

Read everything the Center’s ever written about money in presidential politics.
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The Candidates

See what the presidential hopefuls have disclosed about their personal and campaign finances.
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Interviews

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Interview with Tova Andrea Wang

Tova Andrea Wang is the vice president for research at Common Cause. Prior, she was a democracy fellow at the Century Foundation, where she led an election reform working group. Before that, Wang worked for the National Commission on Federal Election Reform and for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.

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Bill Hogan on Dan Rather Reports

Going Going Gone: The Auction Blog

The Donors Have Spoken

About 50 of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s top donors met at the senator’s residence in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate their commitment to her campaign and urge her to continue, The Wall Street Journal reports.


A Little To Go a Long Way?

Republican John McCain is dropping a relatively small amount of cash on recent ad buys, The Hotline reports, having spent only $1,310 in Oregon and about $2,180 in Wisconsin.


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