McCain Opposed A Bill To Expand Federal Jurisdiction For Hate Crimes. McCain voted against closing debate on the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act (S. 625). The bill would add "gender," "sexual orientation," and "disability" as protected classes under Federal law and would expand Federal jurisdiction for the prosecution of people who commit "hate crimes" against federally protected classes. The cloture motion was rejected, 54-43. [1]
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Will John McCain Ever Denounce John Hagee's Views?
Reverend John Hagee today apologized for his offensive comments about Catholics. Despite spending a year courting Hagee's endorsement and refusing to distance himself from the controversial pastor, John McCain reportedly played no role in the apology.
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Michigan Fundraiser Highlights McCain's Radical Friends
What the invitation to a John McCain fundraiser does not say, however, is that Rakolta and Liggett were two of the key backers of an organization that helped finance an ad that compared Democrats to Adolf Hitler in the 2006 election. Rakolta and his wife contributed $10,000 to a group called Voice the Vote, which used the money to buy a newspaper ad that compared Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and a procession of Democratic presidents to Hitler.
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Wilcox County, Alabama
John McCain is touring through areas with a history of economic and social justice problems (which Republicans traditionally ignore) to portray the presumptive GOP nominee as "not that kind of Republican." He will visit places Republicans actively vote against the...
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Republican Forgetfulness
Our friends at the RNC on the latest McCain Makeover Tour under the title, "The Forgotten Places of America." His stops in Selma, Thomasville, and Gee's Bend were the first of many unconventional campaign visits where the Senator will spend...
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McCain Stands By Vote Against '90 Civil Rights Act
Forty-years ago, just days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President Lyndon Johnson signed the '68 Civil Rights Act. Twenty-two years later, John McCain cast a deciding vote against the Civil Rights Act in 1990. In 1990,...
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Not Just One Vote
There's some distortion by John McCain over his many years of opposition to a King holiday, both at the federal and state level. He's trying to make it sound like this was just one vote, a long time ago.
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Biography Tour
What's been ignored in McCain's "biography tour" is the quarter-century he spent in Congress, casting votes he's now attempting to run away from, such as his vote against the King holiday.
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Let’s Take This Outside
Romney-McCain spat continues to heat up over abortion: