McCain’s Lawyer Smacked Down By His Own Organization
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 10th, 2008 4:37 am by HL
McCain’s Lawyer Smacked Down By His Own Organization
McCain’s lawyer, Trevor Potter, poo-poohs the idea that FEC Chairman David Mason was fired because he was critical of McCain’s public finance hypocrisy. But the Campaign Legal Center, the organization that Trevor Potter founded, strongly disagrees…
Trevor Potter, John McCain’s lawyer, flips his shit at the notion that there was anything improper about the White House’s removal of FEC Chairman David Mason (per Ambinder):
The McCain campaign believes that Commissioner Mason’s questions have been answered satisfactorily, and that if he is on the Commission when a quorum is restored he will agree that Sen. McCain’s withdrawal from the system was proper. Accordingly, given the lack of evidence that Commissioner Mason thinks otherwise, the controversy about the White House decision to nominate someone else for the Mason seat seems to be a manufactured one.
Really? The Campaign Legal Center, the organization that Trevor Potter founded, strongly disagrees. From J. Gerald Hebert, the Center’s Executive Director:
The White House has thrown the wrong FEC nominee under the bus. Chairman David Mason has been cast aside by the White House for insufficient party fealty while the nomination of an unqualified but loyal partisan remains pending. It is a move sadly reminiscent of the U.S. Attorney purges.
Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 also had some choice words for the Mason dismissal. Why have so many of these good governance groups finally found their voices with regard to this wanton politicization of the FEC for McCain’s benefit? Word has it that the Politico is doing an investigative piece on how the reform committees are too close to McCain. It may have been the impetus for many a “come to Jesus” moment.
